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The annual Innovation in Politics Awards recognise creative politicians from across Europe who have the courage to break new ground to find innovative solutions for today’s challenges.
ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
DemocracyNext
Paris, FranceDemocracyNext is an international non-profit, non-partisan research and action institute.
Democracy Technologies
ViennaA magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.
Wikirumours
CanadaWikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation.
Civic Voices
NairobiWith the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.
TechImpact Technology Learning Center (formerly NPower)
United States of America (the)Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.
GreatFire
ChinaWe monitor and challenge internet censorship in China
A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.
Callisto Vault
San FranciscoA suite of tools designed to help survivors navigate barriers and define their own pathways toward healing and justice. Within Callisto Vault, survivors can access two tools: the Matching System and Encrypted Record Form.
Preptrack
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.
Tech For Good London Meetup
LondonWe believe that it's never been easier to use digital technology to tackle some of the world's toughest social and environmental challenges.
Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.
The purpose of this handbook is to increase public communicators' awareness and understanding of information influence campaigns and develop their ability to respond.
ITS Rio Curricula on Information Issues
ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The goal of Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior (SocialSim) is to develop innovative technologies for high-fidelity computational simulation of online social behavior.
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
NewsQ seeks to elevate quality journalism when algorithms rank and recommend news articles online. We approach this problem by engaging in design thinking activities in collaboration with technology, journalism, academia and other communities.
An open source platform aiming to engage communities and citizen journalists alongside newsroom and freelance journalists for collaborative, decentralised content verification, tracking, and debunking.
El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.
Our mission is to ensure that information technology and social media play a proactive role in supporting democracy and human rights globally.
Digital Ethical Pact
PanamaPanama's Digital Ethical Pact is an agreement where signatories pledge to follow the following: 1. Collaborate with the Electoral Tribunal so that the electoral ban is respected and electoral campaign is only carried out during the permitted periods of 45 days before the internal elections of the political parties and 60 days before the general elections.
NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life.
Social Science One
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USASocial Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.
Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.
Reveal
LuxembourgEU research project toto advance the necessary technologies for making a higher level analysis of social media possible. Ended 2017.
Global Network Initative
1325 G Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.
The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.
Linterna Verde
BogotáLinterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.
Mozilla Foundation survey of builders' perceptions of data governance
An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.
The citizens agenda is a way for news organizations to ensure that voters get the information they need from the politicians competing for their votes, in order to make the best decisions they can. The approach can be used for any type of election: school board, local government, state government, national or otherwise. In order for newsrooms to adopt a new kind of thinking, process and behavior, it takes more than one passionate person to make lasting change happen. This readiness assessment is designed to give you a sense of how easy or difficult it might be to get a citizens agenda model deployed in your newsroom, so you can go in with eyes wide open around any challenges.
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NYC[x] Innovation Fellows
New York City Hall, City Hall Park, New York, NY, USANew York City is launching the second cohort of its NYC[x] Innovation Fellows program to expand on this successful collaboration, embedding small teams of technologists with City agencies to rapidly solve specific challenges through the use of best practices in digital service delivery.
Just One Giant Lab
Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI) - 8 bis rue Charles V, 75004, ParisJust One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving.
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.
Alkemio
Netherlands (the)We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
New York University, New York, NY, USAS.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.
The Unseen Teen
Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USATHE UNSEEN TEEN: The Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People a report by Data & Society
Due Process Clinic at Cornell University
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAThe Digital Due Process Clinic provides high-quality, pro bono services to those affected by these systems.
Technical University of Munich School of Management Center for Digital Transformation
Munich, GermanyThe Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.
Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago.
Current Water
Chicago, ILCurrent is Chicago’s water innovation hub.
Tech, Media & Democracy course
New York, NYThrough a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy
Connecting organizations with technical challenges to students who have the technical skills to solve them
Newlab Circular City Studio
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USACircular City Studio, a program established with support from NYCEDC, encourages entrepreneurs to reimagine urban environments and help New York City address short, medium, and long term challenges facing our city. The 2020 iteration empowers engineers, inventors, and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to pilot technologies that support NYC's sustainability agenda and rethink energy, waste, and recycling systems in New York City. Selected teams will deploy products and services in testbeds around Manhattan and Brooklyn, working with program partners, domain experts, and research institutions to deliver solutions and introduce relevant technologies that can support community needs.
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