GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• COVID Media Projects
• COVID

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Campaign tools
• Meeting tech
• Organize events

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

• reports

• Emerging tech
• High-tech COVID Interventions
• Reports

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

"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

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

Civic Nation is home to seven high-impact national initiatives. We educate by giving people critical tools and information on issues that affect them. We activate and train people to organize within their communities.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Connect and live more safely

• apps
• crime

Our COVID-19 dataset contains detailed information on over five million anonymized cases from over 100 countries.

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

• Fight disinformation
• Evaluate impact
• COVID Engagement Projects

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger
• United Nations

• Challenges

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

To contribute to countering disinformation on COVID-19 and promoting healthy behaviours, UNESCO has produced a series of audio messages that can be freely used by radio stations from around the world.

• United Nations

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Radio

Chiediamo dati aperti e machine readable sull’emergenza Covid-19

• Civic data
• Specific campaigns
• Open government data

The Local Needs Databank (UK) is an open set of needs and Covid-19 data, specifically about those in financial hardship in the UK.

• COVID Data Projects
• COVID
• Needs assessment

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

• guides

• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Diversity & Inclusion

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Strengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• COVID Media Projects

Rooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• COVID Engagement Projects

AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Launching LCR Analytics…

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

Guatemalan 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.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The We Be Imagining Podcast examines the intersection of race, tech, surveillance, gender and disability in the COVID-19 era.

• Podcasts

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

• Promise trackers

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.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Professional associations

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

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Get funding
• Challenges

This Cornell University fund supports students who are participating in any type of community-based research activities or community-engaged learning projects

• students

• COVID Engagement Projects

A 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.

• Civic data
• COVID Data Projects
• Public Private Partnerships

A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed our recovery from Covid-19

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• COVID Government Projects
• Challenges

Helping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

What stuck with us throughout this pandemic? Research project by @vishublab & @uclab_potsdam

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Archives

A 24 hour Covid Vigil, May 20 - May 21, 2PM-2PM ET

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Participatory memorials

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Smart Cities and sensors
• High-tech COVID Interventions
• Hardware

Standardized data on historical general election polling places in the United States.

• Voting and elections
• Open civic data
• Find your polling place

A network of groups organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Peer networks

Founded in 2020 in response to COVID

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

a crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Do Not Touch Your Face is a tool that helps you avoid touching your face using your webcam and machine learning.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID
• Cameras

An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace

• labor

• COVID Organizing Projects
• COVID

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.

A platform for civic engagement and neighborhood impact.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Inspired by the help that people give each other during hard times, we created an application that will allow anyone in need to find help in their daily duties.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID