Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Research and policy centers
• Design
• Toolkits

NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.

• Media
• Get funding
• Nonprofit newsrooms

European Institute for Participative Democracy

GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM. AWARD-WINNING FILMS.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Advocacy tech

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Advocacy tech

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

Human-centered design frameworks start by identifying who a product is for and then placing them at the center of the product strategy. The Co/Act toolkit adapts and expands this approach to design digital products, services, or campaigns through modular do-it-yourself style activities that are aggressively low cost, high impact, interdisciplinary, and focused on building the capacity of participants. Co/Act will help you design more powerful products, services, and campaigns by centering them on your community, stakeholders, and colleagues - ensuring that the end result is more inclusive and therefore democratic.

• Design
• Toolkits

An incubator for radically disruptive public service ideas, designed, owned and delivered by the public sector for public impact. An endeavour from FutureGov.

• Govtech
• Partner networks
• Supporting specific public sector efforts from outside government

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Advocacy tech

The Bristol Cable is an independent media company in Bristol, UK, founded in 2014.

Publica is Brazil’s first investigative reporting non-profit dedicated to exposing human rights violations and promoting open democracy.

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

• Artistic interventions
• Data visualization

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Advocacy tech

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Advocacy tech

Transparency International chapter

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Advocacy tech

Our COVID-19 dataset contains detailed information on over five million anonymized cases from over 100 countries.

Vote like our health depends on it

Add, view, or discuss places of value to your local community (including Assets of Community Value and assets owned and run by the community). KeepItInTheCommunity, the site that maps Assets of Community Value and other community-owned spaces and places, is moving to a new home with the Plunkett Foundation.

• local
• neighborhoods

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

The Ferret is an award winning investigative journalism co-operatitive powered by our readers and writers. Join us.