Civic Tech Field Guide
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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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The Public Good Projects
New York, NYWe use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.
A report: How can stories help us change systems?
A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Washington, DCBrookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.
"Journalists and bloggers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan can enter this contest." - International Journalists' Network
Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of journalists, editors, and publishers.
Hatemeter
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online
The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.
Junkipedia
Washington, DCJunkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.
Civic Listening Corps
Washington, DCThe CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.
Algorithmic Transparency Institute
Washington, DCThe Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.
Hearken’s Community Management System, Switchboard, connects members of your community with one another so they can ask for help and offer opportunities in a safe, trusted environment.
Beat Academy
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, USAPoynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more.
Hearken
Chicago, ILHearken's consulting and engagement platforms help newsrooms, companies, and organizations engage their audience or community.
Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.
Advancing Democracy Fellowship
United States of America (the)This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.
The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. - Wikipedia
Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.
Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way
An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media
Iffy Index of Unreliable Sources
United States of America (the)The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.
A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.
The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.
Big Local News
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USAEmpowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations
Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.
SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.
Camino
Oakland, CaliforniaCamino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.
Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.
Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).
Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.
Kevin Roose's Good Tech Awards
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USAAn annual feature by a technology columnist in the New York Times
We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.
Virtual visits to innovative newsrooms
Los Desinformantes
ArgentinaLos desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.
A new way of looking at audio and video. Transcribe, translate, repurpose and share.
Justice Media co-Lab
Boston, MAThe Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.
Digital Patrakar Defence Clinic
New DelhiLegal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.
Narrative Change Lab
TorontoInspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."
Voice of San Diego
San Diego, CALaunched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.
The Texas Tribune
Austin, TXThe Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
MinnPost
MinneapolisMinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.
New Haven Independent
New Haven, CTThe New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality “stand-alone” and “hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.
Institute for Nonprofit News Index Annual Report
Beverly HillsThe Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.
Digital Día de Muertos altar
Los Angeles, CAHonor your loved ones with a digital Día de Muertos altar by the Los Angeles Times
Democracy and Freedom Watch
Office no. 21, 2. floor, Kostava Stret 47/47, Tblisi, GeorgiaDemocracy & Freedom Watch is an independent news service reporting on democracy and freedom in the Republic of Georgia. It is published by Journalists for the Future, a non-governmental organization registered in Georgia and supported by Open Society and The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
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