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Efecto Cocuyo Chequea
Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaWe are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.
Doble Check
University of Costa RicaDoble Check is a public discourse auditing project financed by the University of Costa Rica and which operates as a project affiliated with Radio Stations UCR.
Our mission is to ensure that information technology and social media play a proactive role in supporting democracy and human rights globally.
Cyber News Verification Lab
Hong KongThis project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
RESIST Counter Disinformation Toolkit
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)UK government toolkit to help support the dissemination of reliable, truthful information that underpins our democracy.
Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.
PUSAD
IndonesiaPUSAD is a center for research on religion and democracy, they conduct research on hate speech and political disinformation.
Pressland is a first-of-its-kind data-intelligence platform that maps global media production in real time.
Pegabot
ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazila tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.
A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.
The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace of 12 November 2018 is a call to come together to face the new threats endangering citizens and infrastructure.
Permanent International Media Monitoring Mission on Disinformation about Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora
Ukraine (Ukrayina)NGO "Ukraine-2050" is a working to counter disinformation through a media monitoring program.
Newscheck
India (Bhārat)Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.
NewsQ seeks to elevate quality journalism when algorithms rank and recommend news articles online. We approach this problem by engaging in design thinking activities in collaboration with technology, journalism, academia and other communities.
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
Namibia Fact Check
NamibiaNamibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.
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 Matters for Pakistan
PakistanMedia Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.
Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.
Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)South Africa’s “Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period” (in draft form as of July 2020) is aimed at “every registered party and every candidate” with additional obligations under the code for how those parties and candidates must take appropriate recourse against any member, representative or supporter of that party or candidate who behaves in violation of the code.
Tirto.id
IndonesiaTirto.id translates the enlightening vision as the necessity of presenting clear, enlightening, insightful, contextual, deep, investigative, factual, supported by a lot of quantitative and qualitative data. - both secondary and primary, and can be accounted for.
TrollBusters is an at-the-ready network of supporters to respond to women journalists’ reports of online harassment by providing positive counterspeech.
A training workshop curriculum on how to set up an online support network, create textual and visual counterspeech content, and deploy a counterspeech campaign.
Taiwan FactCheck Center
7F, No. 7, Lane 116, Guangfu South Road, Daan District, Taipei City 10694Taiwan’s first fact-checking center was jointly supported by the Taiwan Media Observation Education Foundation and the Quality Journalism Development Association.
Social Science One
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USASocial Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.
Putting Civic Online Reason In Civics Class
Stanford, CA, USAThe COR curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group as part of MediaWise—a partnership of SHEG, the Poynter Institute, and the Local Media Association.
Assis
Brazil (Brasil)Você sabia que muitos problemas da gestão pública podem ser solucionados com Inteligência Artificial ?
Launching LCR Analytics…
California Cradle-to-Career Data System
CaliforniaA statewide data system that will provide tools to help students reach their goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.
Center on Rural Innovation
VermontAs strategists, advocates, connectors, and champions, we collaborate with members of our Rural Innovation Network to launch initiatives and programs that support innovation, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and tech job creation in the places they call home.
The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.
By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.
A program that helps public intrapreneurs within cities around the world to develop their data innovation ideas into reality by providing dedicated support across a 6 month period.
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.
Digital Equity Laboratory at The New School
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USAThe Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems.
CitizensLab
BerlinA participatory European community of practice made of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts dedicated to experiment, action-research, re-imagine and co-create how to live and work in Europe
Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.
UnBias
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)UnBias aims to provide policy recommendations, ethical guidelines and a ‘fairness toolkit’ co-produced with young people and other stakeholders that will include educational materials and resources to support youth understanding about online environments as well as raise awareness among online providers about the concerns and rights of young internet users.
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?
A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work
Gov.UK Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Framework for Automated Decision-Making
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)This 7 point framework will help government departments with the safe, sustainable and ethical use of automated or algorithmic decision-making systems.
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.
Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.
Algorithms Management and Policy Officer
New York CityIn 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.
The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.
An internship program that supports diversity in free and open source software.
Local Digital UK Training Library
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)While COVID-19 has put a temporary stop to our classroom-based training, we have created a library of online training courses to support local authority staff to learn and develop their digital skills.
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