Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

Harvard Future of Media Project datasets of media ownership in the US from 2021

• Media
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Sinar Project is a civic tech initiative using open technology, open data and policy analysis to systematically make important information public and more accessible to the Malaysian people

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses of human rights.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

NDI's Google Sheet of guides, trainings, and reports on digital disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

Se trata del primer y más ambicioso proyecto periodístico colaborativo del país, del que participan los medios principales de toda la Argentina (de gráfica, digitales, radio y TV) y cuya finalidad es luchar contra la desinformación durante las campañas electorales.

• Media
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Newsroom partnership networks

Voy a extraer por vos los subtítulos generados automáticamente por Youtube.

• videos
• YouTube

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

In order to encourage more outstanding talents to invest in the new-type democratic experiment field and accelerate the incubation of more achievements, the g0v zero-hour government loosening group of Dasong is held on a regular basis.

• g0v

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A robust and practical service delivery management platform

• Govtech
• Issue reporting
• Service delivery

An open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project

• apps

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Making Census Data Easy to Use

• census

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Visualizes votes in Ukrainian parliament

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency

ПАРЛАМЕНТСЬКІ ДАНІ У ГРАФІКАХ ТА ІНТЕРАКТИВНИХ ТАБЛИЦЯХ (Visualizations of Ukraine Parliamentary data)

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Як депутати голосують за питання, які важливі для тебе? - They Vote for You instance in Ukraine

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency

Non-profit news site serving Kyrgyzstan, including election monitoring

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Initiative of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Citizen Engagement

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. They also invested in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia.

• Meet the others
• Open knowledge

by Okki Berendschot

• city
• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

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

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

• commercial
• Climate action

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Data donations

The Hurford Youth Fellowship Program seeks to build the leadership skills and harness the potential of young democracy activists from around the world.

• youth

• Fellowships

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.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Reports

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
• Peer-reviewed research

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

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

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.

• city
• 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

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

• Peer networks
• Conferences

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
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

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

• sustainability
• supply chain

• Civic maps
• Walking tours

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

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

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

Blockchain-based connectivity network for decentralized wireless infrastructure

• Connectivity
• Blockchain

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

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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

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

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

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

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Policy explainers

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

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

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

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
• Books
• Digital literacy

A free book on how to survive on social media networks

• books

• Books
• Social media

O projeto Fura Bolha é uma série de bate-papos entre figuras conhecidas na sociedade brasileira por pensarem diferente.

• Participatory democracy

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

• Advocacy tech
• Fight disinformation
• Organize campaigns

Wired magazine blurb on media diets as nutrition in 2009

• Media
• Data visualization

In this project, we studied 13 government mobile apps – eight from the federal public administration and five from the state of São Paulo – that we believed most affect Brazilian citizens on a daily basis for their relation to services that are especially relevant to our day-to-day life and to the government-citizen relationship.

• apps
• reports

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Esta é uma plataforma de monitoramento de casos que levaram, puderam levar ou podem levar a bloqueios de aplicações de Internet no Brasil. Aqui se encontram materiais originais e análises, em português e inglês, de casos envolvendo bloqueios no país.

• free speech

• Circumvention tech
• Timelines