Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022

• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Reports

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Meet the others
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• In-person meetings

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

An AI tool that detects cyber harassment of journalists journalists and environmental activists in Mexico and Brazil on Twitter

• anti-harassment

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Solidarity networks

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

Nafundi's mission is to create technologies that improve the lives of the underserved. Our current focus is designing, building, deploying, and supporting mobile data collection systems that work well in challenging environments (e.g., offline villages in rural Kenya, humid rain forests in Brazil, and even the International Space Station).

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Politicians in Brazil

Publica is Brazil’s first investigative reporting non-profit dedicated to exposing human rights violations and promoting open democracy.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Quebrando o Tabú is a storytelling organisation focused on raising awareness and engagement around human rights, democracy, and development in Brazil.

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

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

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

In this project, we studied 13 government mobile apps – eight from the federal public administration and five from the state of São Paulo – that we believed most affect Brazilian citizens on a daily basis for their relation to services that are especially relevant to our day-to-day life and to the government-citizen relationship.

• apps
• reports

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

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

During the months leading up to the 2018 presidential election , students at the Énois School of Journalism in São Paulo and the youth of data_lab in Rio checked weekly for facts and rumors that could impact on the electoral process, Whatsapp networks - mostly young and peripheral.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

This system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Comprova brings together journalists from 28 different Brazilian media companies to identify and explain rumors, fabricated content and manipulation tactics that might influence the 2018 presidential election campaign.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Academic programs

Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Manifestos

The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

a tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

Você sabia que muitos problemas da gestão pública podem ser solucionados com Inteligência Artificial ?

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

The Politize Embaixadas (Embassies) program trains thousands of Brazilian youth to create influential citizen leaders in cities

• youth
• trainings
• cities

• Civic literacy

The largest civic literacy network in Brazil

• students

• Civic literacy

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.

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

Case Studies from Around the World

• Design
• Books

More than a non-governmental organization, Conectas are part of a lively and global movement that persists in the struggle for equal rights. Connected to an extensive network of partners spread across Brazil and the world, they are present and make themselves heard in the various decision-making spaces that contribute to the advancement of human rights from the perspective of the Global South.

• human rights

Nexo is a Brazilian award-winning, digital-only independent media organisation.

Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social is an organisation that works for the realisation of the human right to communication in Brazil.

• Translation and linguistic representation

Instituto Cidade Democrática was born in June 2008 and has already worked in 15 cities, involving about 20 thousand people. Today it is consolidated as a Brazilian think and do tank of social participation. Instituto Cidade Democrática collect and analyze data and produce and share knowledge to leverage the power of civil society.

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Narrative tech
• Mapping
• Story-based campaigns

An artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Brazil's parliamentary innovation unit

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Opened the prioritization phase of themes for the 4th Brazilian Action Plan

• Graveyard

DataViva is opening up data for the entire formal sector of the Brazilian economy through more than 1 billion interactive visualizations.

• The Tech
• Data visualization

The Open Data Barometer for Latin America and the Caribbean covers 24 countries and classifies governments according to readiness for open data initiatives, implementation of open data programs, and impact that open data is having on companies, politics and civil society.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation