Community-led guides for data science and open research

• guides

• Digital literacy
• Data science for social good
• Books

Pioneering Collaborative Journalism

• waste
• food
• migration

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Urbanpinion 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.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Suara Masyarakat (Community Voices) is an Internews Europe project with local Malaysian partners on a 36-month project which aims to strengthen capacity of Malaysian media as the key actor in promoting good governance, transparency and accountability.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA)​ and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Supports original research into disinformation vulnerability and resilience with public opinion research, analytical pieces, narrative monitoring, and mainstream and social media monitoring, both in house and in collaboration with local partners in Europe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The USAID-funded Media Program in Ukraine will empower local media to expand Ukrainian citizens’ access to high-quality news and information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Journalism

GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.

• free speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Trade groups

The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

EUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. It was established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

EU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

A participatory European community of practice made of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts dedicated to experiment, action-research, re-imagine and co-create how to live and work in Europe. CitizensLab is a self-organised community of practice currently hosted by the French organisation CRICAO. From 2016 until 2018 CitizensLab has been implemented by MitOst e.V. supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stiftung Mercator, and European Cultural Foundation.

• Partner networks

European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds

• Ukraine

• Resource matching and sharing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.

• human rights

• Digital security and privacy
• Funders & donors

We are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.

• cities

• Govtech vendors

The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing
• Consumer watchdogging

Individuos que apoyan las actividades estratégicas de la Coalición

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Partner networks
• Government transparency

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• cities
• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

• Fight disinformation

Starting life as an accelerator and investor, we have become a leading European government-focused technology company

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Was "a community of non-profit, IT, and media organizations that use technology for better transparency, accountability, and governance in the Central and Eastern Europe region."

• Graveyard
• Civic apps outfits

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

• Academic programs

Cette plateforme mise en œuvre par Bruitparif centralise les cartes stratégiques de bruit (CSB) disponibles au sein de la région Île-de-France dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la directive européenne 2002/49/CE.

• cities
• noise

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Civic maps

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

The GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte / Society for Civil Rights) is a Berlin-based non-profit NGO founded in 2015. Its mission is to establish a sustainable structure for successful strategic litigation in the area of human and civil rights in Germany and Europe.

Since 2002, the Fund for Global Human Rights has raised and invested over $100 million into the work of community activists in more than 25 countries, providing these bold local leaders with the funding, tools and contacts they need to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. The Fund for Global Human Rights UK was established as a sister organisation in 2013 to build support for frontline human rights defenders in the United Kingdom and Europe.

• human rights

Put technology at the service of the general interest

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We are really looking forward to welcoming cities from across Europe to share insights and ideas for tackling the challenges facing our cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Big listening
• Narrative tech

Open collaborative network for journalists and other researches, experts and engaged people working on housing across Europe

• housing

• Media
• Engagement journalism
• Working groups

The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Tactical Remain voting in the UK European elections 2019

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) serves as a place where the open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Europe's largest association of hackers.

• Predecessors

The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

EUROCITIES is the network of major European cities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

Ulule: The 1st European crowdfunding site. Already 24208 projects funded with success. Make good things happen!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The aim of the Digital Ecosystem for E-Participation Linking Youth (DEEP-Linking Youth) project is to explore how e-participation can foster young people’s empowerment and active participation in democratic life.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard

Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

CivicTech4Democracy is the European Union’s global competition showcasing democratic innovation by Citizens for Citizens across the world. Every day, everywhere, citizens invent new ways of bringing democracy closer to the people.

• European Union

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Encounters in Citizen Science The European conference for citizen and participatory science 2020 in Trieste, Italy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

the digital efforts of European countries are visibly paying off

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency