The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

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Sharing anonymized data from your ecobee smart thermostat can help scientists advance the way to a sustainable future. JOIN NOW

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• Climate action

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Data donations

The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program hosts democracy activists, scholars, and journalists for five-month fellowships, bringing fresh insights and perspectives to Washington, DC.

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Es una plataforma abierta para verificar contenidos a pedido de la comunidad.

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• Crowdsourcing

El Chequeador es una plataforma educativa diseñada por el equipo de Chequeado para el desarrollo de cursos virtuales sobre Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional, desinformación, fact checking y otros temas relacionados.

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The free and open global address collection

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022

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We aspire to build a new kind of political training and development, that leverages network effects, enables more self-directed learning, and is radically more practical. Alumnis will innovate the political sphere, and gain influence by doing so.

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Improving democratic politics is our mission: The Innovation in Politics Institute identifies, develops and applies innovations in politics and facilitates best practice exchange across borders and party lines.

• Participatory democracy

The annual Innovation in Politics Awards recognise creative politicians from across Europe who have the courage to break new ground to find innovative solutions for today’s challenges.

• Awards and prizes

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

Open Mapping Hub Eastern & South Africa's podcast

• Mapping
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Initiators of successful political projects in a specific area of politics provide their know-how, experience and dos-and-don’ts in a highly motivating dialogue

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• Peer networks

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Peer networks
• Awards and prizes

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.

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• Shows and films

DemocracyNext is an international non-profit, non-partisan research and action institute.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Last articles published in 2024. A magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.

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• Digital transformation
• Deliberation

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
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• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Social elections solution for staff representative elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• E-voting and I-voting

A Google Earth tour of the raw material extraction that powers our tech products, by Melissa Hsiung

• sustainability
• supply chain

• Civic maps
• Walking tours

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

ClearRoad provides cloud-based solutions to keep roads well-maintained and well-managed Schedule a demo

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Blockchain-based connectivity network for decentralized wireless infrastructure

• Connectivity
• Blockchain

LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.

• Climate action
• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Taghreedat (Arabic: مبادرة تغريدات) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region.

• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing
• Translation and linguistic representation

Summarizes tech terms and conditions in a more legible format

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• Digital security and privacy

Translate your website - Multilingual for WordPress, Shopify and more

• extensions

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Forage is a USDA approved third-party payment processor (TPP) and a PIN provider that authenticates and processes EBT transactions.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Access social benefits

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

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• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Biden Administration's explainer site for the Inflation Reduction Act's renewable energy provisions

• Affordable and clean energy
• United States (federal government)

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• Tech or Digital Policy
• Policy explainers

This page lists 479 instances of alleged and actual misconduct by legislators in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present.

• Watchdogging and transparency

The Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.

• Peer networks

In this "deeply empowering and practical book"(Cecilia Muñoz), two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizations of all types and sizes

• books

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• Bureaucracy tech

Die Universität Bern ist eine 1834 gegründete Volluniversität in der Stadt Bern, mit acht Fakultäten, rund 150 Instituten und 9 inter- und transdisziplinäre Kompetenzzentren.

Profiles 82 tools for fighting disinfo

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• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

WikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation.

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• Fight disinformation
• Archives

To contribute to countering disinformation on COVID-19 and promoting healthy behaviours, UNESCO has produced a series of audio messages that can be freely used by radio stations from around the world.

• United Nations

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Radio

Logically works to tackle the individual, institutional, and societal harms caused by misleading and deceptive online discourse.

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Access Lab é uma empresa que trabalha o acesso de pessoas com deficiência e S/surdas à cultura e ao entretenimento enquanto direito humano fundamental.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Hubs

Latin American fact-checking organization's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks

• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation

EU vs Disinfo's database of over 12,000 samples of pro-Kremlin disinformation

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• Fight disinformation
• Archives

Com o objetivo de ampliar as discussões envolvendo liberdade de expressão travadas na seção “Colunas” e levá-las para outros espaços, Dissenso.org estabeleceu parceria com o Jota, portal de notícias voltado a operadores do Direito

• free speech

Conheça casos envolvendo liberdade de expressão no ambiente digital

• free speech

• Legal tech
• Archives

Alan Turing has long proved a subject of fascination, but following the centenary of his birth in 2012, the code-breaker, computer pioneer, mathematician (and much more) has become even more celebrated with much media coverage, and several meetings, conferences and books raising public awareness of Turing's life and work.

• guides
• books

• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy
• Books

Wired magazine blurb on media diets as nutrition in 2009

• Media
• Data visualization

A collection of tactics, cases, and guides to using information for activism

• Advocacy tech
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

A guide by InterAction written for civil society organizations

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Como os brasileiros usam a internet? Como é seu comportamento na hora de buscar informações na rede? O InternetLab manterá um guia com indicadores sobre como anda a dieta de mídia dos brasileiros e brasileiras.

• Media
• Data visualization