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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.
Fake Watch Africa
Malawi (Malaŵi)The FakeWatch team monitor instances of possible fake news in the 2019 Malawi tripartite election campaign.
The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.
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.
MOE Election Observation
ColombiaThe Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)
Social Insurance Road Trade Fair Area 700103 Kano NigeriaCITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.
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.
Google's digital media literacy training for kids
AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Code for America announce the launch of tools for local communities interested in identifying areas for economic growth using 22 environmental sustainability indicators, including job growth, value-added, air quality, climate impact, energy, water, and land use across 389 industry sectors.
Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.
A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed our recovery from Covid-19
COVID In Boston
Boston, MAWith the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.
Confirmado
GuatemalaGuatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.
"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."
NYCommons
New York CityNYCommons 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.
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.
People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.
"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
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
Recovery Data Partnership
New York CityA first-of-its-kind effort for community, non-profit, and private organizations to share data with the City to aid in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.
Living Lots NYC
New York CityLiving 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.
The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more. Wiseman's documentaries do not have a standard narrative arc, narration, or interviews, but are based on observation of day-to-day organizational life, in this case the activities of Boston's city government in fall 2018 and winter 2019. Much of the film follows Mayor Marty Walsh in activities such as meetings with aides, addressing business leaders about the impact of climate change on the Harbor, listening to veterans at Faneuil Hall on November 11, observing Thanksgiving Day at Goodwill Industries, and giving his state of the city address at Symphony Hall. A second major theme of the film is public servants helping people in need: the eviction prevention task force, another task force on economic advancement for Latina women, and an economic development adviser working with an ethnically-focused grocery store.[2]
Town+Gown
New York CityCreated in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment. Town+Gown is also an open platform research program that uses service (experiential) learning and faculty-directed research to facilitate partnerships between academics and practitioners on applied built environment research projects through the collaborative inquiry model of systemic action research.
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD
OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, FrancePublic authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.
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
A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight. Called censusAmericans, it tweets short biographies of Americans based on data they provided to the U.S. Census Bureau between 2009 and 2013. Using a small Python program, the bot reconstitutes numbers and codes from the data into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person.
In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.
The We Be Imagining Podcast examines the intersection of race, tech, surveillance, gender and disability in the COVID-19 era.
Algorithms Management and Policy Officer
New York CityIn 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.
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.
Local Digital UK Training Library
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)While COVID-19 has put a temporary stop to our classroom-based training, we have created a library of online training courses to support local authority staff to learn and develop their digital skills.
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.
Alloy
United States of America (the)Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.
"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."
New York City Directories
New York CityArchive of New York City directories
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.
97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.
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.
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.
Code for Nepal
NepalHelping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19
We connect and support national digital campaigning organizations around the world which provide opportunities for activists to influence national and international politics.
Analytics Exchange
New York CityA community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.
EU Whistleblowing Monitor
EuropeThe EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months.
KivuHub
Ave LumumbaKivuHub is a community hub of entrepreneurs, developers, business and startups with the right technological skills and business.
Missing Them
New York City, NY, USAThe City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19
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