Nepal’s Election Commission published their electoral code of conduct in 2015, which established standards and regulations for various institutions, persons, bodies and authorities.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Counseling for Ukrainians living with HIV

• refugees
• Good health and well-being
• Ukraine

• Mutual aid

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Launching LCR Analytics…

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

En Monterrey ahora decidiremos juntas y juntos cómo invertir el 5% de la recaudación del pago predial, más de 50 millones de pesos para promover mejoras en tu colonia y en toda la ciudad.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.

• United States (federal government)

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Connectivity

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

A newsletter para quem quer informação direto da fonte! Dados e documentos inéditos, tutoriais, entrevistas, bastidores, notícias e reportagens sobre e usando a Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI). Feita pra você, a cada 15 dias, gratuitamente.

• guides

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Newsletters

Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This project attempts to document all collective action from workers in the tech industry. Contribute to our archive. Currently, there are 506 collective actions documented.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

We are a community of 554 Turkers and growing...!

• labor

• Graveyard
• Peer networks
• Social networks

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

• Holidays

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Get funding
• Challenges

Urban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

25 years of aid accountability

• Timelines

Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.

• Incubators

Annett Heft, Curd Knüpfer, Susanne Reinhardt, Eva Mayerhöffer, 2020

• Media and social media analysis

"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."

• Fight disinformation

NYCommons helps New Yorkers impact decisions about public land and buildings in their neighborhoods. It is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and 596 Acres.

• land

• Civic maps

TGH has graduated more than 35,000 people at more than 300 schools and community sites and has distributed more than 22,500 new computers

• Digital literacy

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• People Powered
• CTFG partners

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Partner networks and coalitions

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Indicators

It educated policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks
• Predecessors

We co-create and facilitate a network of local knowledge hubs in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build on existing expertise in drones, data and AI, the “Flying Labs®” network.

• Drones

Civic Tech Book Club is a virtual book club that meets sporadically to discuss readings related to civics and technology.

• Socialize online
• Reading lists

In 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.

• Govtech

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Freedom of Information

We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

• Climate action

• Promise trackers

Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

"News With Friends is a social news app showing the most important stories right now, comparing views from a selection of quality news publishers representing a range of political perspectives."

• apps

• Media
• Social networks

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories

• Report cards and audits

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

We partner with agencies to enable human-centered, digitally-assisted public benefits programs.

• Project 2025
• United States (federal government)

• Access social benefits

Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.

• Salesforce

• Data visualization
• Nonprofit tech
• Evaluate impact

The FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.

• apps

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

Over the next seven years, building on the work we’ve already done to reimagine safety net services, we will partner with 15 states to reach 13 million people and unlock $30 billion in benefits in the areas of food assistance, health care, and other basic needs through our new Safety Net Innovation Lab.

• Access social benefits
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

Individuos que apoyan las actividades estratégicas de la Coalición

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

A US-based campaign

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns