German digital debates program sponsored by YouTube

• YouTube

• Debate
• Shows and films

DebateWise.org is an online database of expert-curated debates on popular topics.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

DebateArt is a unique and growing community committed to the idea of exchanging views and perspectives through debating.

• Debate
• Civic forums

DebateWise.org is an online database of expert-curated debates on popular topics.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

The Best Online Debate Website

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

Undebates web-based technology allows candidates to self-record and upload their content simply by clicking a link and following on-screen instructions.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Debate

Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.

• IBM

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Debate

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Civic X Syllabus is a roadmap to learning about civic research, civic data, civic tech, and civic design.

• Reading lists

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Identity

Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Reports

The Democracy Forum is a not-for-profit NGO which promotes ideals of democracy, pluralism and tolerance through public debate.

• Participatory democracy
• Debate

The Foundry is a collaborative organization for Internet law and policy professionals who are passionate about disruptive innovation. The Foundry offers members a platform for professional development, constructive debate, and network-building within a cohort of skilled attorneys and policy analysts eager to help shape the development of Internet law and policy.

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Professional associations

An AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.

• US Election 2024

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Bringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Creating knowledge and strategies for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.

• Partner networks
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Hate speech on the internet has regrettably become an increasingly pressing social issue. The NETTZ network aims to confront the current trend by supporting moral courage on digital media as well as cultivating a positive debate and opinion culture on the web.

• hate speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Defunct platform offering info about parliament and matching users views to parties

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Research and policy centers
• Legal tech
• Digital security and privacy

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Fieldwide resources

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Policy simulators

Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.

• Media
• Social networks

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.

• youth

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Black Stripe Foundation is a media production company that produces educational television programmes and other media, one of which is the 'Big Debate', a renowned town-hall debate style TV show in South Africa.

Refugees as City-Makers

• cities
• refugees

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.

• guides
• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Building in the private sector

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

A 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.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation
• News and blogs

A free book on how to survive on social media networks

• books

• Books
• Social media

Com o objetivo de ampliar as discussões envolvendo liberdade de expressão travadas na seção “Colunas” e levá-las para outros espaços, Dissenso.org estabeleceu parceria com o Jota, portal de notícias voltado a operadores do Direito. Com a parceria, nasce a coluna “Dissenso.org” no Jota, destinada a debater pautas relacionadas à liberdade de expressão.

• free speech

We make parliamentary debates more transparent and accessible

• Government transparency
• Watchdogging and transparency

ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

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.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.

• Media
• Journalism

The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.

• guides

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Fight disinformation

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

• Media
• Courses
• Fight disinformation

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

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
• Media and social media analysis
• Fight disinformation

Data enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Linterna 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.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Fight disinformation