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Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.
The Metagovernance Project is an interdisciplinary research collective. We build standards and infrastructure for digital self-governance. Our
The Global Data Justice project focuses on the diverse debates and processes occurring around data governance in different regions, to draw out overarching principles and needs that can push data technologies’ governance in the direction of social justice.
New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute runs the Membership Puzzle Project, which works to identify and incubate innovative early-stage membership models globally.
Justice, Equity and Technology Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Exploring the impact of new technologies on questions of social, racial, and economic justice
SERAP uses human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination through advocacy, research, education and litigation.
Building on over 5 years of work supporting PB processes across North America, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) has created this toolkit to help organizers and advocates start new PB processes.
More than half of the world now lives in urban areas. In the U.S., urban dwellers are the vast majority of the population. What does it mean to live in a city today? What are the challenges for cities going forward? NPR explores urban life in the 21st century.
Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.
Civic Projects Directory
908a N 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19123, USABrowse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.
This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…
Web Integrity Project
Washington, DCOur mission is to monitor changes to government websites, holding our government accountable by revealing shifts in public information and access to Web resources, as well as changes in stated policies and priorities.
Digital Refugee Projects
betterplace Solutions GmbH, Schlesische Straße, Berlin, Germany118 projects to help refugees, curated by betterplace lab
The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.
The Coral Project is an open source project helping publishers of all sizes build better communities around their journalism. Our main tool is Talk.
Oakland Fence Project
Oakland, CaliforniaThe Oakland Fence Project is a public art experience with three primary components: an interactive documentary installation, an A/R mobile cinema app, and a participatory photo exhibit online
Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.
Impact Management Project
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact
Tiziano Project
Los Angeles, CAThe Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training, and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives.
Constitute Project
TexasConstitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.
The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information. The map is part of the Media Deserts Project, a joint research project of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, the Department of Geography and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.
Data for Justice Project
MassachusettsWe hope the project will arm activists, advocates, journalists, policy makers, and elected officials with relevant, timely information about how government functions—so we can fix it when it doesn’t.
Taking control of our movement technology
National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies seeks to prioritize peace, shared prosperity, and economic security for all in our nation's decision making. We are the people's guide to the federal budget. In 2014, NPP was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of our pioneering work to track federal spending on the military and promote a U.S. federal budget that represents Americans' priorities, including funding for people's issues such as inequality, unemployment, education, health and the need to build a green economy. In 2017, we joined the non-profit Institute for Policy Studies as an independent project.
Beginning in January 2016, our team interviewed journalists and nonjournalists to get a sense of the elements that create trust and credibility between communicator and receiver. We read related academic research and industry best practices.
#WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes
STEW-MAP: The Stewardship Mapping and Assessment Project
11 Campus Blvd, Newtown Square, PA 19073, USAData to understand who is working in a given region and what are their assets; this can improve outcomes for many applications, at multiple scales.
The Media Research & Action Project’s (MRAP) mission is to strengthen progressive social movements working toward social justice and inclusive, participatory democracy.
The Project on Democracy and the Internet
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USATo field-leading study of the challenges that democracy faces in the digital age and what reforms are needed
Creating Safer Streets Through Data Science
Prototype Fund Projects Catalog
Singerstraße 109, 10179 Berlin, GermanyA collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.
Hromadski Project (Громадський проект)
1991 Civic Tech Center, вулиця Мечникова, Kyiv, UkraineOne IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.
The Free Speech Project
3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, USAThe Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.
Buikwe Project
UgandaWe are focused on leveraging leapfrog technologies and an ecosystem of partners to offer rural, underserved communities affordable and holistic solutions for their basic needs. Our data insights revealed that families in Buikwe spend up to $20 a month to access unclean energy (charcoal), unclean water, limited healthcare, and no electricity. Our solution will solve these challenges through providing telemedicine, microfinance, smart agriculture, solar power, insurance, internet connectivity and clean water, at only $8 a month
The Dāna Project
44 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON, CanadaMobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities
Participatory Budgeting is a democratic process in which community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget.
We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.
Town Hall Project 2018 is a progressive, volunteer-based initiative working to identify and promote upcoming Congressional forums nationwide.
DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project
Washington, DCThe mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.
Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.
The GDELT Project
Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United StatesMonitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world
Technology and Social Change Research Project
124 Mount Auburn Street, 2nd Floor, South Elevators Cambridge, MA 02138Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action
Displacement Alert Project Map
50 Broad St, New York, NY 10004, United StatesThe Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.
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