A February 2021 report by Polaris, The Soufan Group, and Limbik

• anti-trafficking

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Information Futures Fellowship is a novel opportunity for practitioners in public health, healthcare, community organizations, media, policy, design and other fields who are actively working on responses to the ongoing information crisis.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu

• students
• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

• guides
• toolkits

• Games and gamification
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital literacy

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

• Good health and well-being
• HIV prevention and care

• The Tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

WeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.

• Civic data
• Data visualization

Make Logistics a Positive Force for Social and Environmental Impact

• supply chain

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Participatory aid

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

We design, build, and distribute videogames for persuasion, instruction, and activism

• Media
• Games and gamification

CISLM will grow a more equitable and sustainable future for local news, the journalists who make it and the communities that need it.

• Media
• Research and policy centers

Promise Tracker is a tool designed to help journalists and civil society watchdogs track campaign/promises/pledges by government officials

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Promise trackers

Do you want to join Africa's largest civic technology // open data // digital journalism community on Slack?

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A bot that debunks claims shared on social media by sharing a fact check.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.

• Google
• anti-harassment
• hate speech

• Solidarity networks

Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) is offering a series of seed grants and additional technical support for targeted research into how both state-affiliated and other lobbyist groups use influence/information operations and disinformation and targeted propaganda to subvert African democracies. The initial research grants focus on four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

ADDO is a coalition of investigative analysis + forensic research organisations that monitor how digital tools and civic technologies impact on the rights of African citizens

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Securely share information with Africa's finest journalists BLOW THE WHISTLE

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

ANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce data-driven investigative reports using social network analysis, entity analysis and open source intelligence.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Interviews with 90 respondents

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Empowering and inspiring civic innovators across central Virginia

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

An interactive scorecard where people can see if they would be flagged for social welfare fraud under the Netherlands' broken system

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Access social benefits

Compute the impact of public policy

• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Write rules as code

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Access social benefits
• Budget explorers

The Advocacy Hub is a community of consultant campaigners, evaluators, facilitators and strategists who support and advise civil society organisations to become more effective and have greater impact.

• Organize campaigns

PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at  Olin College of Engineering

• students

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Add a text hotline to your services for fractions of a cent per text! Carrier Pigeon lets your team receive & reply to clients’ texts in Slack. Carrier Pigeon is currently used by abortion access organizations to provide information, find clinics, and answer clients' questions - securely & confidentially.

• Slack

• SMS tools
• Hotlines

WordPress For News Organizations

• Media

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Policy decisions on and resource allocations for IEM tend to be made with inadequate data. The focus of the IDS programme is to coordinate a transboundary effort to develop indigenous data with indigenous stewardship.

• indigenous

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data activism

Parent brand of EveryAction, NGPVAN, Network for Good, and more

• Advocacy tech
• Nonprofit tech

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Graveyard
• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design
• Playbooks and design principles

Potential Energy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition that brings together America’s leading creative, analytic and media agencies to shift the narrative on climate change

• Climate action

• Advertising

OECD podcast episode

• Fight disinformation
• Podcasts

Our intention with the protest tracker was to map public discourse around GotaGoHome protests and it's spread around Sri Lanka.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps

Instil holistically manages donors, members, volunteers, advocates and beneficiaries to foster nonprofit connections with their community for maximum impact.

• Fundraising tools
• Nonprofit tech
• Relational organizing

Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

• trainings
• coaching

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

A referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp

• WhatsApp

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis
• Public sentiment tools

On the Open Data Project Gallery, you can find examples of open data in action and gain inspiration for projects of your own. See how NYC Open Data is used by activists to advocate for change, by entrepreneurs to develop products, by teachers to build analytics skills in the classroom, by government agencies to make data more accessible, and much more.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic tech catalogs

Climate Democracy Action (CDA) is a practice-oriented training and support program that prepares advocates and policymakers to use participatory strategies to drive local governments’ response to the climate crisis.

• trainings
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Accelerators

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

• youth

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Artistic interventions

A report analyzing how gendered, online harassment of female journalists translates in the physical world.

• women

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Digital Maturity Indicator (DMI) is a tool to help organisations measure, benchmark and improve their digital maturity across six key areas.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Evaluate impact

A plug-in that flags fake news directly on social media to prevent you from clicking or sharing articles that intentionally mislead and disinform.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

The FakeWatch team monitor instances of possible fake news in the 2019 Malawi tripartite election campaign.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking