ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

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

• students

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

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

Experiments in audience-centered advocacy media

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Compute the impact of public policy

• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Write rules as code

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

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

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

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM

• Media
• Journalism
• Awards and prizes

منشور الزميل عادل فاخر

• Media
• Journalism
• Digital security and privacy

NLA advances the cause of quality professional journalism, and welcomes news leaders, academics and others.

• Media
• Journalism
• Professional associations

Eduplana is a civic tech organization that uses data to advocate for quality education in Nigeria. We believe every citizen should have equal access to quality education with no bias on their location or status in Nigeria.

• Quality education

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Specific campaigns

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas).

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Innovation teams and labs

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

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Relational organizing

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

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

A growing archive of 1000+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.

• resources

• Build something
• Design
• Visual Design

The Inter-American Development Bank's network for developers working with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

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

Encouraging individuals of exceptional talent and creativity to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.

• Participatory democracy
• Fellowships

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

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

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
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

News game based on sorting fake and real news

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

• Facebook
• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

EU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Linterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

We define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Peer networks

Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.

• trainings

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Fight disinformation

Easily see if a news site offers credible news or should not be trusted and is un-credible/dodgy.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Trustmarks

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Creators and Influencers

Course at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Courses

The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Journalism

Information Resistance is a non-governmental project whose main task is to counteract in the information field external threats arising for Ukraine in the main areas: military, economic and energy, as well as in information security.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Inactive project: "InVID will build a platform providing services to detect, authenticate and check the reliability and accuracy of newsworthy video files and video content spread via social media."

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

• Media
• Fight disinformation

"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing