Civic Tech Field Guide

Real 411

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.

PesaYetu

Kenya

PesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information.

MozCheck

Mozambique (Mocambique)

MozCheck was the first fact checking organization in Mozambique.

Mnemonic

Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.

Mobile Information Literacy Project

The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.

MediaWise

The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.

Mediabugs

Mediabugs was a service for correcting errors and problems in media coverage.

Wordpress

Checkology

Checkology’s lessons and other resources show you how to navigate today’s challenging information landscape.

Chequea Bolivia

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia)

A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.

Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)

Social Insurance Road Trade Fair Area 700103 Kano Nigeria

CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.

Access to Information Community of Practice

Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia

Indonesia

cekfakta.com adalah sebuah sebuah proyek kolaboratif pengecekan fakta yang dibangun di atas API Yudistira oleh MAFINDO ( Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia ) dan bekerja sama dengan beberapa media online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft

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.

Detector de Mentiras

Colombia

La Silla Vacía is an informative and interactive medium for people interested in current Colombian politics.

Detektor Media

Ukraine (Ukrayina)

Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.

Design 4 Democracy

Our mission is to ensure that information technology and social media play a proactive role in supporting democracy and human rights globally.

Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring

Washington, DC

This new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.

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Cyber News Verification Lab

Hong Kong

This project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.

Countering Misinformation about Armenia

Armenia (Hayastán)

Monitoring of the selected talk shows, newspapers, electronic periodicals of both Russian and Armenian mass media to examine the media coverage, the possible labelling and targeted information conveyed to wide audiences in the result of the activity of Russian and Armenian news and information periodicals, TV talk shows and websites.

BBC News Africa COVID-19 Misinfo Hub

London

To combat what the World Health Organization has called an "infodemic" around Covid-19, BBC News Africa has launched a searchable library of fact-checks debunking popular myths and misinformation about coronavirus in Africa.

What’s Crap on WhatsApp?

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp

Verificado.uy

Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)

A project to verify media around the 2019 elections

Verify-Sy

Syria, Syrian Arab Republic (Suriyah)

Verify-Sy platform is a media platform specialized in examining news and images and verifying information, and Verify-Sy platform seeks to achieve two noble goals: ensuring the citizen's right to obtain accurate and correct information, and contributing as much as possible to improving the performance of the Syrian media and upgrading it by displaying the imbalances that affect it.

Twitter Trails

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

X (Twitter)

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.

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.

Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media

Haiti

Internews’ Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media project will limit the impact of inflammatory rhetoric, false news and disinformation.

El Poder de Elegir (de Chicas Poderosas)

Colombia

El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.

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Dubawa

Nigeria

DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.

Ecuador Chequea

Quito, Ecuador

Data enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.

Disinfo Portal

DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.

Disinformation campaign map

Washington, DC

A map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.

Efecto Cocuyo Chequea

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

DisinfoWatch

Canada

DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.

Dogruluk Payi

Turkey (Turkiye)

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

Doble Check

University of Costa Rica

Doble 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.

Digital Polarization Initiative

The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

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Digital Democracy Room

Rio de Janeiro

The Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral processes, seeking to strengthen the democratic institutions.

Eltették

Hungary (Magyarország)

An interactive map to show the billions worth of properties that went from state-owned to privately owned in recent years, together with K Monitor

Digital Enquirer Kit

The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.

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Digit Eye

India (Bhārat)

Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.

DEMOS Engendering Hate Report: The counters of state-aligned gendered disinformation online

London

A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through Twitter data analyses.

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.

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BlackBird.AI

"Blackbird.AI views the spread of disinformation as one of the world’s largest threats to national security, business, and the public as a whole." - Counteringdisinformation.org

Bolivia Verifica

Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia)

Bolivia Verifica is a non-profit, non-political digital media that is dedicated to the verification of false news and public discourse to fight against disinformation and improve democratic participation.

BotSlayer

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

X (Twitter)

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.

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.