Open government initiative to encourage open and participatory government

• Participatory democracy

Database of more than 20 million left-leaning donors

• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our goal is to train the next generation of software engineers, policymakers, civic leaders and social justice advocates to develop, regulate and use technology for the public good.

• Civic hacking meetups

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

To increase civic engagement in strengthening government effectiveness in Indonesia, The Asia Foundation held a competition for civic tech apps through the “Innovation and Collaboration for Development” (In.CoDe) program.

• Civic hackathons

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

An initiative from Code for Africa and ICFJ for Journalists to Help Citizens Overcome Barriers to Religious Freedom

• religion

• Media

An online event on digital participation platforms

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Conferences

Create a digital public sphere to discuss and decide together

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

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

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

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Factchecking

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

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• CRM

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 referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp

• WhatsApp

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

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

UserTesting is pleased to offer free and discounted customer experience research services to qualifying charitable organizations through the OneWorld program.

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• User research

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

Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.

• Civic data
• Mapping tools
• Mapping platforms

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.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

CaptainFact is a collaborative fact-checking tool for YouTube videos.

• YouTube
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation

"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

• Media
• Fight disinformation

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.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

​How much of your work day is spent paying taxes?​

• taxes
• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Budget explorers

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.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A set of information technology (IT) tools to enable citizens to analyze state budgets, in theory to develop critical thinking to counter politicians’ populist rhetoric on complex economic issues.

• Engagement tech
• Budget explorers
• Policy simulators

Supports original research into disinformation vulnerability and resilience with public opinion research, analytical pieces, narrative monitoring, and mainstream and social media monitoring, both in house and in collaboration with local partners in Europe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsroom partnership networks

The DeepTrust Alliance is a global coalition of stakeholders advancing the fight against digital disinformation and deepfakes.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

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

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

In 12 episodes, Jay Smooth teaches you Media Literacy! Based on an introductory college level curriculum, this series takes you through the history and psychology of media and gives you the skills to become more media savvy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

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.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Blockchain

Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.

• Media
• Journalism

"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Digital security and privacy

AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

AFRICMIL is non-government organisation that focuses on media, information, research, advocacy and training. It aims to promote media and information literacy as a key component in the enhancement of democracy and good governance and the promotion of accountability and orderly society.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The African Fact-Checking Alliance (AFCA) is a network of media and civil society organizations that work to counter misinformation. The network supports fact-checking missions to debunk dangerous content, including conspiracy theories and misinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.

• X (Twitter)
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

Botometer (formerly BotOrNot) checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

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

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

Google's digital media literacy training for kids

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Daily, journalists from Aos Fatos follow statements by politicians and authorities of national expression, from different party colors, in order to verify if they are speaking the truth. For this, we adopted a formula with seven steps to carry out our checks.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking