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Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.
Whose Streets report
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAHarvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.
A platform built for accessible and consensus-driven public consultation, harnessing machine learning to derive quality insights. Cornell Tech Studio project
Media Monitoring Africa
AfricaA non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.
Ad Observer
New York University, New York, NY, USAPolitical campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.
Toward a Smarter Future: Building Back Better with Intelligent Civil Infrastructure -- Smart Sensors and Self-Monitoring Civil Works
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.
San Francisco Public Voice Civic User Testing Program
San FranciscoBy CivicMakers: The City [of SF] turned to CivicMakers to create a new program, Public Voice SF, that allows any San Francisco department or agency to connect to a diverse group of community members, collect real-time feedback, and use the input to improve City services.
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.
Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers
New York Cityshowcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.
Reset Australia
AustraliaThe unregulated attention economy driving social media is fraying our democracy, threatening our mental and physical health, and exposing our children to violent and disturbing content.
The Fulcrum
United States of America (the)The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing American democracy.
eDemocracy Network and the researchers at Corporate Knights Magazine launched a public engagement survey to invite the public to weigh in on budget priorities using the Vancouver-based Ethelo Decisions platform.
#StopTheSteal: Timeline of Social Media and Extremist Activities Leading to 1/6 Insurrection
Capitol HillThe Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.
openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project is a groundbreaking, global, feminist investigative journalism initiative dedicated to exposing and challenging organised threats to women’s and LGBTIQ rights.
People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.
NYC Civic Engagement Commission Decidim platform
New York CityA space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.
unBail
Cleveland, OhioDemocratizing information about the legal system
Gong
GONG, Main Square 15/IV, ZagrebGong is a civic megaphone that hinders corruption and builds a more democratic, just and equal society.
Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.
Act Hub Africa
Basorun Rd, 200285, Ibadan, NigeriaAct Hub Africa is a civic-tech NGO that works to promote good governance, democracy, ensure openness and transparency in the local governments by making their fiscal data available in a simplified, easy to understand form and engage people in the local government areas on how to use them in engaging their political officeholders
Counting Us mobile app
575 Washington Street, Canton, MA 02021The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.
My City Challenge Oakland
Oakland, CaliforniaAn engagement program
A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.
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VoteAmerica
San FranciscoVoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.
The Alliance is a nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.
inCitu
New York CityWe take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.
GovStack
United Nations FoundationGovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.
Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA)
Spain (España)La coalición Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA) se crea para desafiar la falta de control democrático, transparencia y rendición de cuentas en el uso y adquisición de sistemas de toma de decisiones automatizadas e inteligencia artificial en España.
Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.
Community engagement and organising in the rural wards of Swansea
Action Path
MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, USAAction Path is a mobile app for civic engagement produced by Erhardt Graeff at the MIT Center for Civic Media.
In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.
Corporate Civic Playbook
United States of America (the)A first-of-its-kind resource that defines corporate civic engagement, providing clear tools to help more companies become active players in strengthening the resiliency of our democracy
EveryPolitician
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.
Academia de Innovación Política
Paris, FranceLa Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.
ActiVote
1 Avery St, Boston, MA, USAA single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.
AAPI Data
Riverside, CA, USADemographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Delib Dialogue
Orchard Street Business Centre, 13-14 Orchard Street, Bristol, BS1 5EHDialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAThe Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
Idee.paris
FranceIdee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.
CivilSpace
British ColumbiaBring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.
Global Innovation Hub of Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Taipei City, TaiwanFocuses on the topics of “digital transformation” and “innovation for democracy”
When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results
A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern
Code for All Summit 2021
GlobalThis year's Summit will focus on Open vs. Closed Tech in Government, Democracy & Elections, Disinformation & Fake News and Power Dynamics in Tech. We'll have different session formats: Panels, Lighting Talks and Workshops!
GovSight
14110 Rocky Valley Dr, Centreville, VA, USAGovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.
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