Civic Tech Field Guide

BOOM

Mumbai

BOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will fact check it.

Aos Fatos

Daily, journalists from Aos Fatos follow statements by politicians and authorities of national expression, from different party colors, in order to verify if they are speaking the truth. For this, we adopted a formula with seven steps to carry out our checks.

Annir Initiative

Libya (Libiyah)

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

Al Sur

South America

"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.

Alternative News Networks

Oxford, UK

This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.

Assessment of Online Risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections

Germany (Deutschland)

A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.

reports

Agência Lupa

Brazil (Brasil)

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

Aggie

Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.

Animal Político

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)

Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.

Agence France-Presse (AFP) Fact Check

France

AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.

ANCIR Investigative Lab (iLab)

Africa

The ANCIR iLab uses forensic data science techniques to expose the networks that disseminate and amplify misinformation, disinformation, and toxic content (such as hate speech or extremism) with a special focus on coordinated inauthentic behaviour and other influence/information operations.

AFRICMIL

Abuja, Nigeria

AFRICMIL is non-government organisation that focuses on media, information, research, advocacy and training. It aims to promote media and information literacy as a key component in the enhancement of democracy and good governance and the promotion of accountability and orderly society.

African Academy for Open Source Investigations (AAOSI)

Africa

The initiative will empower investigative media and watchdog NGOs in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal.

A guide to anti-misinformation legal actions around the world

Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation

guides

African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA)

Africa

The African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA) is a network of media and civil society organizations that work to counter misinformation. The network supports fact-checking missions to debunk dangerous content, including conspiracy theories and misinformation.

Beacon Project

Supports original research into disinformation vulnerability and resilience with public opinion research, analytical pieces, narrative monitoring, and mainstream and social media monitoring, both in house and in collaboration with local partners in Europe.

Bot Sentinel

In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.

X (Twitter)

Botcheck

This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.

Botometer

Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.

BotSlayer

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.

X (Twitter)

Be Internet Awesome

Mountain View, CA, USA

Google's digital media literacy training for kids

youth

Center for Policy Alternatives

Batticaloa, Sri Lanka

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

Citizen Helpdesk

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

Centre for Democracy & Development Fact Check program

Checazap

Brazil (Brasil)

During the months leading up to the 2018 presidential election , students at the Énois School of Journalism in São Paulo and the youth of data_lab in Rio checked weekly for facts and rumors that could impact on the electoral process, Whatsapp networks - mostly young and peripheral.

students

Captain Fact

CaptainFact is a collaborative fact-checking tool for YouTube videos.

Troll Factory

Finland (Suomi)

Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

UNESCO's online media & information literacy (MIL) course

Faced with the choice between privacy and safety on the Internet, between freely expressing themselves and the ethical use of information, the media and technology – women, men and young boys and girls need new types of competencies.

United Nations

Twitter Trails

a tool that allows members of the media to track the trustworthiness of stories shared on Twitter.

X (Twitter)

TaxClock Kenya

Kenya

TaxClock shows how public budget data can be used to help citizens better understand how governments spend our taxmoney.

TrustServista

Romania

TrustServista uses advanced Artificial Intelligence algorithms in order to provide media professionals, analysts and content distributors with in-depth content analytics and verification capabilities.

Tirto.id

Indonesia

Tirto.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.

TrolleyBust

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

TrollBusters

TrollBusters is an at-the-ready network of supporters to respond to women journalists’ reports of online harassment by providing positive counterspeech.

Violence Against Women in Elections Online: A Social Media Analysis Tool

This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.

UYCheck

Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)

Mission: Determine the veracity of the political statements that refer to specific data based on their contrast with reliable sources.

VERA Files Fact Check

VERA Files is a nonstock, nonprofit independent media organization.

Women's Democracy Network

We empower women around the world to participate in the political process and equip them with the skills to take on greater leadership roles.

Win with Women

455 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001

An initiative designed to help political parties become more inclusive and representative through an assessment that gauges men and women's perceptions of women in leadership, the types of social norms held by members of parties, and the individual, institutional and socio-cultural barriers to gender equality.