Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Catalist is a social impact network and digital library where you can discover projects, events, and opportunities to change the world.

• Fieldwide resources
• Expert networks

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Improving democratic politics is our mission: The Innovation in Politics Institute identifies, develops and applies innovations in politics and facilitates best practice exchange across borders and party lines.

• Participatory democracy

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Awards and prizes
• Challenges

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

The Tech We Want is four-year, $8 million portfolio of work focused on connecting and empowering a new wave of leaders, companies, and technologies that are built on inclusivity, mutualism, sustainability, accountability, and responsible innovation.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

The Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.

• Peer networks

Does your nonprofit have a technology related project idea that will advance your mission?

• Nonprofit tech
• Awards and prizes

15 stories of workers fighting back in a digital age

• Decent work and economic growth
• labor

• Books

We help social change organisations use data science

• Data science for social good

We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

• free speech
• apps
• WeChat

• Adjacent Fields
• Circumvention tech

A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Powering comments sections

• Media
• Engagement journalism

Experiments in audience-centered advocacy media

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Potential Energy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition that brings together America’s leading creative, analytic and media agencies to shift the narrative on climate change. Together, we are using the power of marketing to develop new narratives, engage new audiences, and build demand for a better, cleaner, more prosperous world.

• Climate action

• Advertising

The Inter-American Development Bank's network for developers working with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

On the Open Data Project Gallery, you can find examples of open data in action and gain inspiration for projects of your own. See how NYC Open Data is used by activists to advocate for change, by entrepreneurs to develop products, by teachers to build analytics skills in the classroom, by government agencies to make data more accessible, and much more.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic tech catalogs

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

MarvelousAI is an (inactive) early stage startup founded by tech industry veterans.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

EDx course on media literacy. It helps us understand, analyze and create media.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

a protocol for news publishers to open the history of changes of any Wordpress-based site. The intention was to give audiences the possibility of seeing stealth edits in the news.

• Wordpress
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Blockchain

The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

Congo Check est un média spécialisé dans la vérification des faits ou factchecking. Congo Check est un projet de l'ASBL/ONG Initiative des fact-chechekers du Congo, IFC.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

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

EU research project toto advance the necessary technologies for making a higher level analysis of social media possible. Ended 2017.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.

• Facebook

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Consumer watchdogging

The Civic Tech Field Guide's view of impact metrics

• resources

• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Soils Revealed is a platform that visualises how soil organic carbon stocks have changed globally, and how they might change in the future.

• soil
• Climate action

• Civic maps

Advancing the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy
• Tech or Digital Policy

Resident Fellows seek to advance society's understanding of surveillance capitalism and change the way Reset works by embedding within Reset to produce creative research and technology outputs.

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

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.

• guides

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.

• racial equity

• Peer networks

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The front of each can of Fair Maps IPA shows Wisconsin's state legislative and congressional districts prior to 2011, then the back reveals the drastic change in election maps after the last round of redistricting.

• gerrymandering

• Artistic interventions

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

• Climate action

• Engagement tech

Momentum is a training institute and movement incubator.

• trainings

• Organize campaigns
• Incubators
• Decentralization

Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond

• trainings

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

What if we could use rules, tests, and parameters to isolate hate speech? Can we identify and analyze elements like speaker intent, context, identity, tone, audience, or any number of indicators that transform words into meanings and change an innocuous statement into a verbal assault? Combating the proliferation of online hate speech and understanding its mechanics is a complex undertaking. We believe, however, that it can be done. And one way we are working to do so is by teaching machines to recognize hate.

• hate speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Media and social media analysis

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

Visualizing climate change

• Climate action
• Clean water and sanitation

• Artistic interventions

Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Everyday it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Advertising

The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more. Wiseman's documentaries do not have a standard narrative arc, narration, or interviews, but are based on observation of day-to-day organizational life, in this case the activities of Boston's city government in fall 2018 and winter 2019. Much of the film follows Mayor Marty Walsh in activities such as meetings with aides, addressing business leaders about the impact of climate change on the Harbor, listening to veterans at Faneuil Hall on November 11, observing Thanksgiving Day at Goodwill Industries, and giving his state of the city address at Symphony Hall. A second major theme of the film is public servants helping people in need: the eviction prevention task force, another task force on economic advancement for Latina women, and an economic development adviser working with an ethnically-focused grocery store.[2]

• Govtech
• Shows and films