Civic Tech Field Guide
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This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.
Daily situation reports and data from the World Health Organization
Impact Challenge Bay Area 2019
San FranciscoThe Google.org Impact Challenge Bay Area is an open invitation to organizations across the Bay Area to submit their ideas to address some of the most challenging societal issues facing our community today. The 5 boldest and brightest ideas will be selected to receive $1 million in funding and support from Google.
Parliament Watch (Thailand)
Bangkok, ThailandAn open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.
Defacto.md
The Republic of Moldova (Moldova)Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși
The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.
Playbook: Government as a Platform
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA2019 report by Richard Pope
OECD Deliberative Democracy Database (2023)
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FranceThe OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more
Onshor
Tunisia (Tunis)ONSHOR est une association créée en 2019. ONSHOR a pour objectif de stimuler la diffusion de l’information publique.
Le Lieu de la Transformation Publique
Paris, FranceA la fois laboratoire d’innovation publique, équipe d’experts pluridisciplinaires, centre de ressource et de formation, réseau dédié à l’innovation - le Lieu de la Transformation Publique propose, depuis 2019, un accompagnement sur mesure aux porteurs de projets engagés dans une démarche de transformation.
MyCandidate
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.
USAID One Window for Citizens
Cambodia (Kampuchea)USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).
Velocidad
Latin AmericaVelocidad was an accelerator program for Latin American digital media which took place between 2019 and 2021.
Book by Paolo Gerbaudo (2019)
Waar is mijn stemlokaal
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)Een stembureau bij jou in de buurt, zo gevonden
MyCandidate Nigeria
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.
Koltsegvetes Zuglo
Hungary (Magyarország)Budget explorer for the Municipality of Zugló's 2019 budget built by K-Monitor
demokratie.today
Mühlleite 13, 91465 Ergersheim, GermanyDeutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.
Measuring the state of data for the public good
Narrative Change Lab
TorontoInspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."
An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States
ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office. For every toxic tweet that passes a certain threshold, the bot posts a “positivitweet.” ParityBOT has been deployed in Canada during the federal election in 2019, and the Alberta election in 2019. During this time: +245,000 tweets were processed 393 candidates were tracked +20,000 positive tweets sent
We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.
Response Innovation Lab Iraq
Iraq (al-ʿIrāq)The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.
WhatsApp Third Party Fact-Checkers
San FranciscoEnd-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan
Disinfo Database
EuropeEU vs Disinfo's database of over 12,000 samples of pro-Kremlin disinformation
The Turing Way
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKCommunity-led guides for data science and open research
Cazadores de Fake News
Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaSomos una comunidad crowdsourcing que monitorea la desinformación difundidas en cadenas de WhatsApp y redes sociales entre venezolanos. Nuestro centro de operaciones es un grupo de Telegram abierto en el que analizamos colectivamente la información que recibimos.
Democratic Statecraft Lab
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VirginiaA democratic statecraft lab was a rotating lab in partnership with the democracy initiative at uva. It ran from 2019-2022.
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WeVis
Bangkok, ThailandWeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.
PIT-UN Network Challenge
United States of America (the)The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.
a protocol for news publishers to open the history of changes of any Wordpress-based site. The intention was to give audiences the possibility of seeing stealth edits in the news.
The Media Manipulation Initative takes a sociotechnical approach to understanding the social, political, and economic incentives to game information systems, websites, platforms, and search engines—especially in cases where the attackers intend to destabilize democratic, social, and economic institutions.
The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.
Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.
Real 411
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.
The Scribe reference API will list references based on usage and domain by language.
The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space. It was formally signed during the 74th UN General Assembly in September 2019.
Iffy Quotient
University of Michigan, South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USAThe Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.
Fake Watch Africa
Malawi (Malaŵi)The FakeWatch team monitor instances of possible fake news in the 2019 Malawi tripartite election campaign.
Google's digital media literacy training for kids
Verificado.uy
Uruguay (Republica Oriental del Uruguay)A project to verify media around the 2019 elections
MOE Election Observation
ColombiaThe Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
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