Civic Tech Field Guide
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Design for Civic Change
New York City, NY, USADesign for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.
NYC Open Data Project Gallery
New York City, NY, USAOn 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.
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.
Fiskkit allows news readers to annotate the news line by line
Factly
HyderabadFactly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels
Dubawa
NigeriaDUBAWA 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.
The Digital Polarization Initiative, or “DigiPo”, is ADP's national effort to build student civic, information and web literacy by having students participate in a broad, cross-institutional project to fact-check, annotate, and provide context to the different news stories that show up in our Twitter and Facebook feeds.
La Constitución es Nuestra
Santiago, ChileProyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile
Rooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.
rbutr tells you when the webpage you are viewing has been disputed, rebutted or contradicted elsewhere on the internet. Last used 2013.
Project Look Sharp Media Curriculum
Ithaca, New YorkProject Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.
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.
"Our.News - now in its beta - provides in-sight tools and add-ons that fact check news stories aggregated from across the internet on the spot." - Counteringdisinformation.org
"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem." - Counteringdisinformation.org
"The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org
An open source platform aiming to engage communities and citizen journalists alongside newsroom and freelance journalists for collaborative, decentralised content verification, tracking, and debunking.
The Computational Propaganda Project
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKSince 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.
Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.
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.
The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.
Center for Policy Alternatives
Sri LankaThe Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.
Budget Simulator for Pilot United Territorial Communities
Ukraine (Ukrayina)A set of information technology (IT) tools to enable citizens to analyze state budgets, in theory to develop critical thinking to counter politicians’ populist rhetoric on complex economic issues.
In 2018 we launched Bot Sentinel to help fight disinformation and targeted harassment. We believe Twitter users should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic trolls, foreign countries, and organized groups manipulating the conversation.
Join Together
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Digital tools for trade unions
Demokratiefabrik
Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.
Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.
Mozilla Foundation survey of builders' perceptions of data governance
People using Polarizer can rate the mutual polarization level of one-on-one chats. Their opinions and ratings are visualized as a network graph. The graph is clustered by the peoples mutual polarization ratings.
The Fulcrum
United States of America (the)The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing American democracy.
Use these free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help you educate students on the election and the importance of counting every vote.
The People's Bus
New York CityThe People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.
Serve in Place Fund
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAThis Cornell University fund supports students who are participating in any type of community-based research activities or community-engaged learning projects
596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.
PDX City Sync
Portland, ORPDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.
COVID In Boston
Boston, MAWith 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.
In the winter of 2020-2021 Center for Urban Pedagogy collaborated with eight Teaching Artists to create civically-engaged art activities to do at home!
El Tímpano
Oakland, CaliforniaEl Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latinx and Mayan immigrants.
This tool shows the perceptions and concerns about wellbeing and discontent expressed online by the citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.
OpenCovid19 is a JOGL program that develops open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Algorithms Management and Policy Officer
New York CityIn 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.
A platform built for accessible and consensus-driven public consultation, harnessing machine learning to derive quality insights. Cornell Tech Studio project
A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek
New York City, NY, USAA Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.
Thoughtful engagement with decision-makers, stakeholders, and the general public provides the foundation for sound planning, successful projects, and better communities.
Grade DC
Washington, DCThis program enables you to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help you better engage with your government and help government agencies to improve the quality of their services.
Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)
888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CaliforniaAirbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.
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