Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

cekfakta.com adalah sebuah sebuah proyek kolaboratif pengecekan fakta yang dibangun di atas API Yudistira oleh MAFINDO ( Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia ) dan bekerja sama dengan beberapa media online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft. cekfakta.com pertama kali diluncurkan di acara ‘Trusted Media Summit 2018’ yang diadakan di Jakarta pada Sabtu, 5 Mei 2018 setelah penandatangan MOU oleh 22 Pemred dan Ketua Mafindo.

• 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

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

En Monterrey ahora decidiremos juntas y juntos cómo invertir el 5% de la recaudación del pago predial, más de 50 millones de pesos para promover mejoras en tu colonia y en toda la ciudad.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

It educated policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues. CPSR incubated numerous projects such as Privaterra, the Public Sphere Project, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the 21st Century Project, the Civil Society Project, and the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. Founded by U.S. computer scientists at Stanford University and Xerox PARC, CPSR had members in over 30 countries on six continents. CPSR was a non-profit 501.c.3 organization registered in California.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks
• Predecessors

We co-create and facilitate a network of local knowledge hubs in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build on existing expertise in drones, data and AI, the “Flying Labs®” network.

• Drones

Civic Tech Book Club is a virtual book club that meets sporadically to discuss readings related to civics and technology.

• Socialize online
• Reading lists

In 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.

• Govtech

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3

• Civic data
• Archives
• Justice tech

We track progress towards the globally agreed aim of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.

• Climate action

• Promise trackers

Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

"News With Friends is a social news app showing the most important stories right now, comparing views from a selection of quality news publishers representing a range of political perspectives."

• apps

• Media
• Social networks

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

A newsletter para quem quer informação direto da fonte! Dados e documentos inéditos, tutoriais, entrevistas, bastidores, notícias e reportagens sobre e usando a Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI). Feita pra você, a cada 15 dias, gratuitamente.

• guides

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Newsletters

Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This project attempts to document all collective action from workers in the tech industry. Contribute to our archive. Currently, there are 506 collective actions documented.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

We are a community of 554 Turkers and growing...!

• labor

• Graveyard
• Peer networks
• Social networks

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

• Holidays

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date. After uncovering the 50 most innovative urban solutions in the wake of COVID-19, the Challenge will award 15 grand prize winners $1 million each—to help cities implement their breakthrough ideas and, ultimately, to spread those ideas to other cities on a global scale.

• cities

• Get funding
• Challenges

25 years of aid accountability

• Timelines

Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.

• Incubators

Urban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.

• land
• cities

• Urban planning

Annett Heft, Curd Knüpfer, Susanne Reinhardt, Eva Mayerhöffer, 2020

• Media and social media analysis

"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."

• Fight disinformation

NYCommons helps New Yorkers impact decisions about public land and buildings in their neighborhoods. It is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and 596 Acres.

• land

• Civic maps

TGH has graduated more than 35,000 people at more than 300 schools and community sites and has distributed more than 22,500 new computers. Last year: 3,640+ graduates report that they learned skills that can help improve their lives 1,150+ children are better able to do schoolwork online because of TGH 2,530+ graduates have used their TGH device and digital skills for their health and wellness Tech Goes Home empowers communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives.

• Digital literacy

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Access social benefits
• Civic maps

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data. The sensor attaches to the roof of vehicles and collects detailed data at a more geographic level than traditional fixed-position sensors. The City Scanner sensors capture data related to environmental conditions including air quality (particulate matter 1, 2.5, and 10), temperature, humidity, and road conditions in New York City. The solar-powered sensors are removable and do not permanently alter vehicles.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure. IAT© is based on the "15-minute city" idea, which says that all important facilities and services for urban dwellers should be easily accessible within a 15-minute timeframe. We assess infrastructure accessibility by surveying the facilities reachable within 15 minutes on foot, by car and by public transport.

• cities

• Civic data
• Indicators

Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.

• Salesforce

• Data visualization
• Nonprofit tech
• Evaluate impact

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime.

• Report cards and audits

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

The FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.

• apps

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

Over the next seven years, building on the work we’ve already done to reimagine safety net services, we will partner with 15 states to reach 13 million people and unlock $30 billion in benefits in the areas of food assistance, health care, and other basic needs through our new Safety Net Innovation Lab.

• Access social benefits
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

Individuos que apoyan las actividades estratégicas de la Coalición

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

A US-based campaign

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

KivuHub is a community hub of entrepreneurs, developers, business and startups with the right technological skills and business.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Hubs

Tools to build a movement

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Sunshine Week was launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors — now News Leaders Association — and has grown into an enduring initiative to promote open government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources

En 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.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A collection of 232 resources for political progressives

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings