award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A research paper

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research

Making Census Data Easy to Use

• census

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Civic Tech Connect 2018 marked the official launch of the Civic Tech India 2018 Accelerator and brought together entrepreneurs and investors

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Digital marketing agency that's built websites like askindia.org

• Govtech vendors

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.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.

• Get funding
• Digital security and privacy
• Funders & donors

Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.

• hate speech
• diaspora

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

DDP is an open-source data pipeline platform to tackle data ingestion, storage and transformation that can be used by NGOs to drive actionable insights

• Civic data
• Nonprofit tech
• Data integration

Indus Action helps vulnerable Indians access government entitlements to education, maternity and livelihood support.

• No poverty

• Access social benefits

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

Agami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

IT for Change is an NGO based in Bengaluru, India. IT for Change aims for a society in which digital technologies contribute to human rights, social justice and equity.

• Gender Equality
• Quality education

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Internet governance

What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance

• reports

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.

• surveillance

• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

Legal advice, assistance, and representation to indian journalists. Pro bono.

• Media
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

The SaveTheInternet campaign is a volunteer led effort to uphold a fair and open Internet. Over 1 million Indian citizens have participated at one point or another in the campaign that was started by a group of like minded individuals across India in May 2015.

• Adjacent Fields
• Net neutrality

Data journalism, analysis on Indian economy, education, healthcare, agriculture, politics

• Journalism

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

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Vishvas News is an information fact-check and verification portal that is committed to debunking fake news and misinformation in Hindi, English and 10 different Indic languages.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

BOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will fact check it.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

Tattle is a group of technologists, researchers, journalists and artists. We build tools and datasets to better understand and respond to (mis)information trends on chat apps and regional language social media in India.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

4 million Users & Beneficiaries, 22 NGOs & Social Enterprises, 16 Indian States

• Resource matching and sharing

“Mann Mela” is a museum of young people’s mental health stories from India Through sharing people’s real experiences, we tackle common misconceptions about mental health and mental illness, break down stigma and discrimination and encourage help-seeking.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities works to make urban sustainability a reality. Through global research and on-the-ground experience, our experts work with city and national leaders in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States to spur action and improve life for millions.

‘Pocket Change’ is a Hindi digital content channel that creates relatable, comedy content for young Indians with civic engagement at its heart.

• YouTube

• Civic fiction
• Shows and films

India's open challenge platform

• Challenges

Will Star facilitates the online creation of a will. Upon completion, users can download, print and sign the document.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

cVIGIL is an innovative mobile application for citizens to report Model Code of Conduct and Expenditure violations during the elections

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Dynamically change disputed national borders

• The People
• Build something
• Civic features

• Civic data
• Roundtables

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs

• cities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech