THE UNSEEN TEEN: The Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People a report by Data & Society

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.

• Media and social media analysis
• Timelines

Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Safeguard voters’ rights with data-driven insights. Alloy Protect is an email report that helps election protection groups defend voter rights through transparent, timely access to voter file insights and data.

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Voter assistance tech

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• guides

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Newsletters

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative. This includes metrics for five types of public diplomacy: financial, cultural, elite-to-elite, exchange, and informational. Using this dashboard you can create custom data sets, maps and graphs based on the type of public diplomacy, recipient countries and time periods in which you are specifically interested.

• Civic maps

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime.

• Report cards and audits

Poynter's Factually helps fact-checkers, educators, journalists and citizens get at the truth. Written by the International Fact-Checking Network’s reporter Harrison Mantas, Factually highlights interesting fact-checks, dives into global misinformation trends and features fact-checking and media literacy training opportunities.

• Factchecking
• Newsletters

DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

PDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.

• Engagement tech
• Ideation
• Service alerts

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive. Then, they will start getting notifications, assigned to one of six categories: alarms (emergencies), safety (e.g. meteorological warnings), breakdowns (e.g. water and sewage), housing estate (neighbourhood messages directed from individual housing estate councils), air (smog reports, exceeded dust particle limits, free communication), transport (road works, communication difficulties).

• apps
• cities

• Issue reporting

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• cities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data 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

El Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latinx and Mayan immigrants.

• Latinx

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

TGH has graduated more than 35,000 people at more than 300 schools and community sites and has distributed more than 22,500 new computers. Last year: 3,640+ graduates report that they learned skills that can help improve their lives 1,150+ children are better able to do schoolwork online because of TGH 2,530+ graduates have used their TGH device and digital skills for their health and wellness Tech Goes Home empowers communities to access and use digital tools to overcome barriers and advance lives.

• Digital literacy

Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Benchmarks

Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done.

• labor
• Amazon

• Crowdsourcing

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide. ADL Center on Extremism experts developed this unique visualization using data points from information sources including news and media reports, government documents (including police reports), victim reports, extremist-related sources, Center on Extremism investigations and more. ADL H.E.A.T. Map is updated monthly. A compilation of the most recent cases of anti-Jewish vandalism, harassment, and assault may be viewed at the ADL Tracker of Antisemitic Incidents.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

A tagging system for fact-checks

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Evaluate impact

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing
• Consumer watchdogging

A framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability

• reports

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

A mobile app to report sexual harassment. The collected data can be used as evidence to support preventive measures. Last updated Nov 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Demographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

People Powered's independent expert committee scored 26 of the top digital engagement platforms

• Digital participation platforms
• Report cards and audits

Lutece is an open source platform developed by the City of Paris to help you develop digital solutions.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• CRM

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

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

Reporting management software for municipal technical services

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Climate Emergency UK assessed plans according to 28 questions across nine sections, based on the expert-approved checklist for Council Action Plans.

• Climate action
• local

• Report cards and audits

A design study and report on how digital technology is changing how we design cities

• cities

• Design

Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on legislative reform proposals and platform self-governance options.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Report by EngageMedia

• Digital rights

Communication gateway for municipalities

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts
• Issue reporting

StateScoop reports on news and events impacting technology decisions in state and local government. With our website, daily newsletter and events, we bring together IT leaders and innovators from across government, academia and industry to exchange best practices and identify ways to improve state and local government.

• state

• News and blogs

By providing a neutral report of what happens in court, trial monitors can help ensure that rights are respected and abuses exposed.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Justice tech

Citiscope spurs innovations to help cities work better for all of their people through the power of independent journalism. We deliver: on-the-ground reporting by local journalists extensive coverage of global debates on the future of cities expert commentary and analysis

A mobile app making it easy to report on the work city government is and isn’t doing.

Now-defunct citizen reporting platform

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Budeshi is a dedicated web platform that links budget and procurement data to various public services using the Open Contracting Data Standards (OCDS). The Budeshi platform is primarily being used to demonstrate to public institutions the utility of using uniform data standards to publish and report information across stages in the procurement value chain.

• Open data publishing portals
• Procurement oversight

Pew Trusts report: What the changes mean for the millions of people who interact with the civil legal system each year—and what remains to be done

• reports

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

Nigerian issue reporting platform

• Issue reporting

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

All-in-one resident engagement suite in Czechia

• apps

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Mapping tools

ŠEST komunikačních kanálů v jednom nástroji.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Bureaucracy tech

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

• Climate action
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Reports