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Journalism, storytelling, and other forms of interactive media are critical to civic engagement in democracies. Here we track those media and journalism tech projects that directly relate to citizens working to shift power in society.

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Reporters Without Borders

Reporters without Borders or Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) is an international organisation that protects freedom of the press worldwide by protecting the safety and security of journalists operating in threatening regimes.

Chequeado

Chequeado

Argentina

Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.

Correctiv

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

Center for Public Integrity

The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.

OmaStad Game

OmaStad Game

Helsinki, Finland

A card game for making suggestions on participatory budgeting

SecureDrop

SecureDrop is an open-source whistleblower submission system that media organizations can use to securely accept documents from and communicate with anonymous sources.

Center for an Informed Public

Center for an Informed Public

The Information School, Mary Gates Hall, Northeast Grant Lane, Seattle, Washington, USA

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

Rasm.io

Rasm.io

Tehran

رسمیو(لیلاک سابق) موتور جستجوی اشخاص و شرکت‌ها است که بر مبنای آگهی‌های روزنامه رسمی کشور ایجاد شده است. رسمیو با تحلیل روزنامه رسمی کشور و ایجاد خروجی معنادار، دسترسی به اطلاعات شرکت‌های ایرانی را راحت کرده است.

iSeeChange

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

Check My Ads

Take back control of your ads. Keep your brand away from fake news, disinformation, and hate speech. Get an ad check.

NICAR-L-ESP

NICAR-L-ESP

Missouri School of Journalism, Walter Williams Road, Columbia, MO 65211, USA

NICAR expanded the Data Journalism listserv to a Spanish language version

Brandwatch Consumer Research

Brandwatch Consumer Research

48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USA

Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.

IoT Trustmark

The Trustable Technology mark empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

Tella

Tella

Washington, DC

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

Crowdgauge

Crowdgauge

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

The Center for Media Engagement

The Center for Media Engagement

1918 F Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20052, USA

To provide research‐based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

City Bureau Civic Reporting Residency

City Bureau Civic Reporting Residency

6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

A 10-week program for journalists of all levels to learn our community-centered reporting process while covering the South and West Sides

Voice of Kibera

Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform. The project is an initiative of Map Kibera and uses the Ushahidi platform to aggregate and map citizen reports. The platform aggregates local citizen reports from the Kibera community media and other relevant news and information. In partnership with various local organizations, the Map Kibera team (http://mapkibera.org/) launched Voice of Kibera to visualize reporting in and about Kibera (one of the largest slums in Africa). The platform acts as a social reporting platform used to enhance resilience through community-led actions. It has become a dataset about the challenges faced by Kibera’s residents, the existing services and capacity (e.g. clinics, schools, water resources), and other relevant news and information about the area. Via a simple web-based reporting system, citizens of Kibera can report incidents, from security presence, to health, education, and natural disasters.

Google Digital News Initiative

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

Fact-Checkers Legal Support Initiative

To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

Center for Countering Digital Hate

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

TechAndCheck Newsletter code

TechAndCheck Newsletter code

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Code to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers

The Factual

The Factual

San Mateo, California, USA

The hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.

CityFlag

CityFlag

Berlin

Civic engagement can take many forms and Cityflag, a mobile phone app that allows citizens to highlight and track local issues, wants to make it just a download away. Along with allowing users to post photos of infrastructure issues, Cityflag incorporates a social media tangent and mapping system where people can share infrastructure and City service […]

FactChecker.in

FactChecker.in is India’s first dedicated Fact Check initiative.

Vistinomer

Vistinomer

North Macedonia

Holds you Accountable! Macedonian fact-checking outlet

Electome using Twitter firehose

What’s the connection between a campaign issue and a vegetable? ProPublica President Richard Tofel reminded us this month. “For too many voters, as every editor in her or his darkest heart knows…

Venezuela Hasta Los Tuétanos

Venezuela Hasta Los Tuétanos

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Welcome to the ORIGINAL channel of Resistencia, Venezuela Hasta los Tuétanos. It is an information room about the political, social, and economic situation that Venezuela is going through.

ZenCity

ZenCity

Tel Aviv, Israel

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

Global Factchecking Summit

In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened

The Coral Project

The Coral Project is an open source project helping publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. Our main tool is Talk.

PesaCheck

PesaCheck

East Africa

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Totem

Totem is an online learning platform on using digital security tools and tactics effectively for journalists, activists, and trainers.

Impact.jor

Impact.jor

Brazil (Brasil)

O Impacto.Jor é uma iniciativa para medir o impacto do jornalismo na vida das pessoas, através de um software criado para reportar e agregar impactos.

The Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics

The Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics

2121 I St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA

To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.

Colombia Check

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

Trustable Technology mark

Trustable Technology mark

10969 Berlin, Germany

It empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

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