Algorithmic tool by the Italian government to fight tax evasion by cross-checking self-reported income with assets and other databases in a privacy-protecting approach

• taxes

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

Research by Rebecca Rumbul of mySociety - As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research tools

2019 report by Richard Pope

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

• Reports

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

Freedom House's an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories.

• free speech

• Indicators

Search over 2000 reports of AI harms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Consumer watchdogging
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Tech or Digital Policy

Crowdsourced campaign leaflet reporting

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Organize campaigns
• Crowdsourcing

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Service alerts
• Consumer watchdogging

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Including key indicators of online violence escalation and how to systematically record digital threats

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality
• reports

• Journalism

This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

• reports

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

The IA Impact Tracker is a digital platform to help news organizations, funders, and other stakeholders understand the impact of journalism by defining, measuring, and tracking real world change.

• Media
• Journalism
• Evaluate impact

When the platform is launched, it will allow journalists to report their news and current events. It will also enable them to share their stories, interviews and research.

• Media
• Journalism
• Social networks

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

The Unfreedom Monitor, a project of Global Voices, is a project to analyze, document, and report on the growing use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance around the world.

• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

It is a platform aimed at improving the urban environment and public spaces in Lithuanian cities.

• urban planning
• cities

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

An opportunity for every conscious member of society to contribute to the elimination of the shadow economy.

• taxes
• illicit goods
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Individuals is designed to assess an individual’s level of development in understanding critical elements of cultural safety and working to create culturally safe experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals. The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Organisations is designed to assess an organisation’s commitment to a level of development in embedding cultural safety.

• indigenous
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Report cards and audits

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

The use of algorithms in public administration can make our public affairs more convenient, accurate and faster, but it is important to be aware of the limitations of these technologies. Report 2.0

Herramientas para la democracia local

• reports

• Participatory democracy

Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.

• Media
• Peer-reviewed research
• Evaluate impact

Search State Court Report’s database of significant state supreme court decisions and pending cases. Download decisions and briefs for cases that develop state constitutional law.

• state

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Freedom of Information

Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Report cards and audits

By making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.

• Get funding
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fundraising tools

A critical review of the accuracy of countries' submissions to the OECD's AI Policy Observatory site, tracking national government AI programs

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government AI strategies

Our global editorial team of almost 50 journalists and about 300 freelancers covers the world’s under-reported stories at the heart of aid, development, women’s and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights, climate change and social innovation. We make our stories available free of charge to hundreds of smaller media outlets and non-government organisations around the world.

• Media
• Journalism
• Story-based campaigns

NoKunda was a pioneering civic tech initiative designed to catalyze a civic movement in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, enabling citizens to report instances of electricity theft to the relevant authorities.

• electricity

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Dispositif visant à réduire les violences sexuelles et sexistes sur les plages de la ville de Marseille.

• anti-harassment
• apps
• public space

• Issue reporting

"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."

• Civic teams at tech companies
• Social media

The Chanzo Initiative exists at the interface between advocacy and journalism. It is founded to uplift the voices of the underreported, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in Tanzania with the goal to make Tanzania the best place to live for everyone regardless of class, creed, sexual orientation and nationality.

• Media
• Journalism
• Engagement journalism

Brasil: Investigação transnacional revela empresas de marketing político ligadas à extrema direita

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsroom partnership networks

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Messaging

Elker is an anonymous reporting platform that allows people to speak up about workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.

• anti-harassment
• labor
• Gender Equality

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

A publicação visa colaborar na construção de estratégias de proteção, fomentando oficinas coletivas com defensoras e defensores de direitos humanos (DDHs), movimentos sociais e organizações da sociedade civil.

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

an open-source tool that allows individuals and organizations to centralize and manage reports sent by Tella users, including photos, videos and audios. Tella Web is not a web version of the mobile app, but rather a secure repository for organizations to manage reports sent by their members or partners.

• Digital security and privacy

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Trustmarks

The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membership in professional associations, was repurposed to spread Fidesz’s campaign messages.

• reports

• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy
• Reports

Antes de la creación de este archivo viviente, no había ningún lugar que encontrara, agregara, clasificara y resguardara los trabajos de los periodistas asesinados en México.

• free speech

• Media
• Archives
• Journalism

How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?

• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evaluate impact

Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective

• reports

• Bots
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Reports

We are the ProPublica union. We are reporters, editors, designers and business and communications staff across the entire workplace who are dedicated to investigative reporting in the public interest.

• labor

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech unions

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism