The purpose of the Global Democracy Initiative is to organize, train, and deploy Former Parliamentarians of Canada, Former Members of the European Parliament, and Former Members of the U.S. Congress as participants in democracy building activities such as election observation, democratic institution building, and supporting elected representatives in emerging democracies as they strive for free and transparent forms of good governance.

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight
• Election observation

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

El Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral, IIDH/CAPEL, es un programa especializado del Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH).

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

ENEMO is an international organization, a network composed of 22 national election monitoring CSOs from 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, including three European Union countries.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Election oversight

The main goal of EMDS is to achieve a democratic election system and formation of democratic institutions in Azerbaijan.

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight

Nunca foi tão fácil avaliar políticas públicas!

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is the world’s largest online community and repository of electoral knowledge.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The goal of the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society is to contribute to the process of transparency and fairness of elections through the organization of qualitative, objective and independent monitoring of the pre-election process, the voting day and summing up the results.

CMEV was formed in 1997 by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Coalition Against Political Violence as an independent and non-partisan organisation to monitor the incidence of election related violence.

• Preventing election violence

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Election oversight

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight
• Election observation

The Association of Non-Profit Organizations "In Defense of Voters' Rights"

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.

• Voting and elections
• Report cards and audits
• Social media

2022 is going to be another record-breaking year for Black women candidates, and Higher Heights for America has collected the information for every Black woman running for office at the state and federal levels. These Black women are ready to run, win, and lead.

• racial equity

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

A set of recommendations for infrastructure improvements based on a series of interviews with and stories collected from local election officials

• reports

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Civic features

Приложение позволяет создавать и заполнять формы для сообщения о нарушениях на выборах. Crowdsourced election monitoring app for iOS and Android

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

Social elections solution for staff representative elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Election observation

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

Vote Rookie ist eine überparteiliche Demokratie Plattform. Wir unterstützen junge Menschen bei der Teilhabe an Politik und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement.

• youth

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Digital participation platforms

Mchaguzi is an independent web-based, voter-centred electoral intelligence toolkit designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to enhance citizen participation and engagement before, during and after the 2022 Kenyan General Election.

• Voting and elections
• Factchecking
• Voter assistance tech

Find out who you can vote for in the upcoming 2022 Kenyan elections

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Building a Tribe of Voting Nigerians

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach
• Voter registration

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

TSE coordinated a fact-checking coalition, comprising nine renowned fact-checking organizations from the media, named “Coalizão para Checagem – Eleições 2020” (Fact-Checking Coalition – 2020 Elections).

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

South Africa’s “Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period” (in draft form as of July 2020) is aimed at “every registered party and every candidate” with additional obligations under the code for how those parties and candidates must take appropriate recourse against any member, representative or supporter of that party or candidate who behaves in violation of the code.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

The Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

An initiative designed to help political parties become more inclusive and representative through an assessment that gauges men and women's perceptions of women in leadership, the types of social norms held by members of parties, and the individual, institutional and socio-cultural barriers to gender equality.

• women
• Gender Equality

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

The Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral processes, seeking to strengthen the democratic institutions.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

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

A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.

• X (Twitter)
• Reddit

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

A live dashboard analyzing the top German candidate's presence on multiple social media platforms.

• Voting and elections
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

Fato ou Fake is a news literacy project that vetted more than 700 pieces of information ahead of the elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

"Pledge signed by political parties and technology/social network companies committing to avoiding fake news and mechanisms of disinformation that may affect upcoming elections." - Countering Disinfo

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Panama's Digital Ethical Pact is an agreement where signatories pledge to follow the following: 1. Collaborate with the Electoral Tribunal so that the electoral ban is respected and electoral campaign is only carried out during the permitted periods of 45 days before the internal elections of the political parties and 60 days before the general elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

"Pledge signed by political parties/individuals committing to transparency and preserving election integrity by avoiding disinformation and attacks by third parties." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Social Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

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.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

First deployed on Election Day in 2018, Project Certeza’s purpose was to identify and deal with false information disseminated, particularly through social networks but also through any other media, that could produce uncertainty or distrust in the citizenry about the electoral authority’s responsibilities as the election is happening.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Aggie is an open-source social and online media aggregation tool designed specifically for monitoring events in real time.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

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.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsroom partnership networks

The USAID-funded Media Program in Ukraine will empower local media to expand Ukrainian citizens’ access to high-quality news and information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections