Narwhal is a discussion community for curious people of any viewpoint

• Online forums
• Civic forums
• Social networks

The project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values. It focuses on the following question: Can "platform councils" or other institutions ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account in the rule-making processes of platforms?

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media

Open source identity solution. "Our vision is that every person on the planet is recognised, protected and provided for from birth"

• Govtech
• Identity

An upskilling initiative "to equip 1,000 adults from low-income backgrounds with the tools and skills they need to become software engineers and thrive in tech careers."

• Decent work and economic growth

• Find a job or hire someone
• Economic development
• Upskilling

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise

• Specific campaigns
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Justice tech

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Data science for social good
• Courses

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openness to others and practical involvement in the development of mutual understanding.

• Awards and prizes

Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.

• Media
• Social networks

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic maps

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports

• Social media

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Peer networks

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Behavioral economics programs
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Engagement Projects

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

"The applications allow users to view how a bill would change current law and differences between proposed legislation." URL will only work for US Capitol Hill IP addresses

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.

• youth

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

The Association of Non-Profit Organizations "In Defense of Voters' Rights"

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Trolling, or social media behavior that is uncivil and provocative is one of the most potent sources of political polarization today. You may have heard the expression, "don't feed the trolls," but how do you know if you are interacting with one? Answer as many of the questions you can about another social media user below, and our models will create a prediction about the likelihood that they are a political troll (an extremist who engages in uncivil behavior designed to antagonize the other side). 

• harassment

deepfakes How good are you at spotting political deepfakes? Test yourself with the latest version of Detect Fakes, featuring a series of both real videos and deepfakes of the two most recent US presidents. The goal of this work, developed by researchers in the Affective Computing and Viral Communications research groups, is to "prebunk" deepfakes—videos manipulated by neural networks—by

"an investigative toolkit for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply

Transparencia, para que conozcas los datos más relevantes de los proyectos ganadores de la consulta del Presupuesto Participativo en la Ciudad de México, a lo largo del tiempo.

"Openpolis è una fondazione indipendente e senza scopo di lucro che promuove progetti per l'accesso alle informazioni pubbliche, la trasparenza e la partecipazione democratica. Svolge attività di giornalismo basato sui dati (data journalism), porta avanti campagne di attivismo civico, fa divulgazione critica sul tema dei dati e sviluppa applicazioni web basate su dati aperti." - Wikipedia Italia

Salt Lake City's govtech innovation program is focused on modernization and digital equity for residents. "Another area the department will focus on is integrating the city’s “Digital Equity For All” policy. Passed in September 2020, the policy aims to provide residents with the opportunity to access and use information and communication technologies reliably. The resolution, which was inspired by the importance of technology during the pandemic, aims to incorporate three concepts: relevant content, services, hardware and digital literacy into the city’s policymaking. To achieve this, the department will: increase usage and understanding of digital and communications technology address potential barriers to digital inclusion address the need for digital literacy training address the need for access via reliable and affordable devices address the need for language and disability accommodations develop relevancy and advocacy campaigns within specific communities and populations" https://www.govtech.com/gov-experience/Salt-Lake-City-Mayor-Announces-New-Innovation-Department.html

• cities

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

• refugees
• apps

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Crowdsourcing
• Translation and linguistic representation

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.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

JusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy

We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

• free speech
• apps
• WeChat

• Adjacent Fields
• Circumvention tech

"Acumen is a nonprofit impact investment fund focused on investing in social enterprises that serve low-income individuals in United States." - Wikipedia

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Google Sheet with over 200 impact investors listed

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic tech catalogs

Law requiring digitization of German government. Die Interaktion zwischen Bürgerinnen, Bürgern und Unternehmen mit der Verwaltung soll in Zukunft deutlich schneller, effizienter und nutzerfreundlicher werden.

• Government transparency
• Digital transformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Journalism

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

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Manage volunteers

A referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp

• WhatsApp

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers

"The Youtube Dataviewer is a tool that allows users to extract metadata from Youtube videos." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• YouTube

• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

"The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

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

• Wordpress

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

News game based on sorting fake and real news

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

"Pledge signed by political parties and technology/social network companies committing to avoiding fake news and mechanisms of disinformation that may affect upcoming elections." - Countering Disinfo

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

"Sponsored partly by Microsoft, Newsguard is a plugin for browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft's Edge that validates news websites for users based on 9 journalistic integrity criteria." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Indicators