The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.

• The Tech
• Media
• Learn about civic tech

With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy. The goal: reinvent the relationship between news organizations and audiences to elevate enterprises that empower citizens.

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Human-Led + AI-Supported Listening

• apps

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• Participatory democracy

Block’hood is a city building simulator video game that focuses on ideas of ecology, interdependence and decay.

• The Tech
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• Games and gamification

We made a board game to discuss local economic policy ideas.

• Decent work and economic growth

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• Media
• Games and gamification

Social Media Scraper is a tool helping journalists and watchdogs to keep politicians accountable for the statements they make in social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Factchecking Serbian politics

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

• youth

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

the home of online investigations

• The Tech
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• Emerging tech

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

• civic features
• Google

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• The People
• Media

a convenient place to verify that our efforts are to have hope in the future cleaner network environment, cultivate hope we have a verification message can alert attitude Instead of sharing information

• The Tech
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• Fight disinformation

A card deck for revolution

• The Tech
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• Organize campaigns

The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.

• LGBTQI
• suicide prevention

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• Emerging tech

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• Games and gamification

The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board.

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• Games and gamification

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

• Facebook

• The Tech
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• Artificial Intelligence

It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
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• Media and social media analysis

Rede de comunicação livre que busca novas formas de produção e distribuição de informação a partir de uma lógica colaborativa de trabalho.

• The Tech
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• Solutions journalism

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Conferences

Saving the nation with selfies and memes

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.

• Civic data
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Balanced News from the Left, Center and Right

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• Filter bubble poppers

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

• The Tech
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• Fight disinformation

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

• hate speech

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• Learn about civic tech

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• Games and gamification

A speculative story sprint collection

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic fiction

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

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• The People
• Media

Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges

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• Games and gamification

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

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• Participatory democracy

Other analytic software can show you what is happening, but only Quid can unlock the context that explains why.

• commercial

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• Media and social media analysis

Opportunity Awaits: Introducing (Port)Land of Opportunity, Our Newest Game

• The Tech
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• Games and gamification

PeakMetrics tracks news and government action around the clock, so you save time and react faster.

• The Tech
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• Participatory democracy

File, track, and share public records requests.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

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• Advocacy tech

Chrome extension

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• Games and gamification

Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational

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• Games and gamification

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

NICAR, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, is a program of IRE, founded in 1989 and supported by the Missouri School of Journalism.

• Media
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Fight disinformation

Nonprofit transparency-focused media outlet

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.

• The Tech
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• Adjacent Fields

CrossCheck is a collaborative journalism project that brings together newsrooms across France and beyond to accurately report false and misleading claims.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Chrome extension

• The Tech
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• Filter bubble poppers

Enrich your stories with charts, maps and tables.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

The Rules have developed a method and toolkit to help social movements bring about narrative and structural change. We call it Culture Hacking.

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech