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Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle
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.
Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.
Civic Voices
NairobiWith the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.
InfoNile
Tanzania, United Republic ofInfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.
The Continent is an award-winning African newspaper, designed to be read and shared on WhatsApp.
This is the online learning portal of the Community Solutions Network. Here you can access courses, guides, and additional resources as part of your digital transformation learning journey. Whether you are just embarking on this path or are a seasoned hand, there are courses tailored to your level and interest!
Mchaguzi
KenyaMchaguzi is an independent web-based, voter-centred electoral intelligence toolkit designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to enhance citizen participation and engagement before, during and after the 2022 Kenyan General Election.
Vote Rookie
GermanyVote Rookie ist eine überparteiliche Demokratie Plattform. Wir unterstützen junge Menschen bei der Teilhabe an Politik und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement.
A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.
Undebates
United States of America (the)Undebates web-based technology allows candidates to self-record and upload their content simply by clicking a link and following on-screen instructions.
actNOW
AfricaA public engagement toolkit that enables a media house or civil society organisation to easily set up channels for engagement.
PolicyEngine
United States of America (the)Compute the impact of public policy
CiviCue
TaiwanCiviCue is a democratic media equipped with blockchain voting and friendly voter authentication to establish shared understanding.
Smart City-Strategie Berlin
BerlinPublic engagement around plan to merge digital strategy and smart city strategy in Berlin
Urbanpinion
Eastern EuropeUrbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.
To increase civic engagement in strengthening government effectiveness in Indonesia, The Asia Foundation held a competition for civic tech apps through the “Innovation and Collaboration for Development” (In.CoDe) program.
Hawkfish
New York, NYHawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fiskkit allows news readers to annotate the news line by line
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.
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 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.
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.
"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
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.
Join Together
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Digital tools for trade unions
Demokratiefabrik
SwitzerlandThe Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.
Mozilla Foundation survey of builders' perceptions of data governance
The People's Bus
New York, NYThe 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.
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.
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
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.
El Tímpano
Oakland, CaliforniaEl Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latinx and Mayan immigrants.
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