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Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)Create a digital public sphere to discuss and decide together
A growing archive of 1000+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.
The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.
The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.
"Our.News - now in its beta - provides in-sight tools and add-ons that fact check news stories aggregated from across the internet on the spot." - Counteringdisinformation.org
MarvelousAI is an (inactive) early stage startup founded by tech industry veterans.
teyit.org
Turkey (Turkiye)teyit.org is working to ensure that internet users can access correct information by verifying in many areas from widely known mistakes, suspicious information on the agenda of social media, claims brought up by the media, or urban legends.
"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
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
Debunk.eu
Lithuania (Lietuva)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.
Tirto.id
IndonesiaTirto.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.
Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Verificado.uy
Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)A project to verify media around the 2019 elections
"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."
EUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. It was established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood.
Introducing an open-source browser extension that helps you thwart targeted advertising on Facebook. Not updated since 2018.
Digital.gov Communities of Practice
United States of America (the)Peer communities of digital US government workers. Collaborate and share resources with others across government. You must have a .gov email address to join.
Gov.UK Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Framework for Automated Decision-Making
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)This 7 point framework will help government departments with the safe, sustainable and ethical use of automated or algorithmic decision-making systems.
A platform built for accessible and consensus-driven public consultation, harnessing machine learning to derive quality insights. Cornell Tech Studio project
People using Polarizer can rate the mutual polarization level of one-on-one chats. Their opinions and ratings are visualized as a network graph. The graph is clustered by the peoples mutual polarization ratings.
Helping voters in English and Spanish
A global interactive by the New York Times visualizing the local climate risks for the entire planet
ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide. ADL Center on Extremism experts developed this unique visualization using data points from information sources including news and media reports, government documents (including police reports), victim reports, extremist-related sources, Center on Extremism investigations and more. ADL H.E.A.T. Map is updated monthly. A compilation of the most recent cases of anti-Jewish vandalism, harassment, and assault may be viewed at the ADL Tracker of Antisemitic Incidents.
uslaw.link
Washington, DCThe full compilation of enacted US law wasn't available as a complete and accessible digital collection...until now.
U.S. GAO Technology Assessment Design Handbook
Washington, DCThe Technology Assessment Design Handbook offers both GAO’s own staff and other interested users tools and approaches to think about when designing technology assessments.
European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds
a multi-dimensional digital agency for organizations on a mission
BusStat.NYC
New York CityA project to measure and show bus performance in NYC
Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)
888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CaliforniaAirbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.
People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott: 100 Days of Action Tracker
Baltimore, MDBaltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.
An Airtable with thousands of climate tech products, services, capital sources, and networks
The Alliance is a nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.
Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.
abgeordnetenwatch.de
Abgeordnetenwatch, middle 12, 20148 Hamburg, GermanyWeil Transparenz Vertrauen schafft
3de3.mx
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoEn 2015, Transparencia Mexicana (TM) y el Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) lanzaron la plataforma independiente #3de3 para promover y recibir las declaraciones de situación patrimonial, de intereses y fiscal de quienes competían por un cargo de elección popular.
Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change
Practical information and inspirational ideas to help social impact organizations use data science to solve the world's biggest problems.
Rep'd, Inc.
United States of America (the)Rep'd is a civic engagement platform that powers the digital conversation between voters and candidates, constituents and elected officials.
NYC law: Reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies.
New York City Council, Broadway, New York, NY, USAA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies
New here? geojson.io is a quick, simple tool for creating, viewing, and sharing maps. geojson.io is named after GeoJSON, an open source data format, and it supports GeoJSON in all ways - but also accepts KML, GPX, CSV, GTFS, TopoJSON, and other formats.
Our mission is to transform how government learns, builds, delivers, and measures digital services in the 21st century. And we do that by providing people in the federal government with the tools, methods, practices, and policy guidance they need to deliver effective and accessible digital services. It is our job to be the experts in the problems people in government face, and support them wherever they may be blocked.
A network of groups organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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