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

Association féministe intersectionnelle à l'origine de #TwitterAgainstWomen, notre objectif est de sensibiliser et d'informer sur les cyberviolences, les droits des victimes et les recours possibles.

• Gender Equality
• LGBTQI
• harassment

• Solidarity networks
• Hotlines
• Campaign organizations

Polaris holds the largest known data set on human trafficking in North America, which grew out of more than a decade of operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.

• human rights
• anti-trafficking

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

CiviCue is a democratic media equipped with blockchain voting and friendly voter authentication to establish shared understanding.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Add a text hotline to your services for fractions of a cent per text! Carrier Pigeon lets your team receive & reply to clients’ texts in Slack. Carrier Pigeon is currently used by abortion access organizations to provide information, find clinics, and answer clients' questions - securely & confidentially.

• Slack

• SMS tools
• Hotlines

Streamline your volunteer application process. In closed beta as of March 2023.

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Sharing information about Thailand and its development with the world.

• Civic data
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Hawkfish 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.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard

Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tools that help operations like ours.

• apps

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Hoaxy is a tool that visualizes the spread of articles online.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data visualization

PBS youth media literacy effort. "This is a pilot – a test – with Ruff Ruffman videos looking at the red-hot topic of how kids can and should use media and technology."

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Report cards and audits

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data visualization

We are a joint team of engineers and investigators from CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle, trying to build a comprehensive tool for media verification on the Web.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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

Fiskkit allows news readers to annotate the news line by line

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Engagement journalism

The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Conferences

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

”Cine ce face” is an information project through which citizens can get a clear and accurate picture of the roles of various institutional actors in case of an emergency.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Introducing an open-source browser extension that helps you thwart targeted advertising on Facebook. Not updated since 2018.

• Facebook
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising

FightHoax offered a seamless way to extract actionable insights from news, allowing DSPs to increase the advertising ROI for their customers, through smart brand safety filters and deep contextual targeting.

• commercial

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

A plug-in that flags fake news directly on social media to prevent you from clicking or sharing articles that intentionally mislead and disinform.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

FakerFact was an Artificial Intelligence tool built to help us understand more about what we read.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

These online courses, toolkits and resources are designed to help both journalists and the public build expertise and stay one step ahead of misinformation.

• resources
• toolkits
• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Toolkits

A report analyzing how gendered, online harassment of female journalists translates in the physical world.

• women

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The ICFJ Knight Fellowship programme in Nigeria is working with influencers and media partners to combat misinformation and fake news in the Nigerian digital media space.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Creators and Influencers

The FakeWatch team monitor instances of possible fake news in the 2019 Malawi tripartite election campaign.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

News game based on sorting fake and real news

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Fato ou Fake is a news literacy project that vetted more than 700 pieces of information ahead of the elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

• Facebook
• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Was a non-partisan advocate of civic awareness and participation. We contribute to the political process in our country by providing facts to counter politically motivated deception and falsehood. Our goal is to equip citizens with facts gathered through scholarship, investigative journalism, and aggregation of other useful information already in public domain to increase public knowledge and understanding and support informed political choices.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

Fact Crescendo is an independent, unbiased fact-checking website that is committed to bringing the fact behind every news, debunking mis-interpreted & hoax news on a daily basis on false, mis-informed, social media as well as mainstream media.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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

Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

"Pledge signed by political parties and technology/social network companies committing to avoiding fake news and mechanisms of disinformation that may affect upcoming elections." - Countering Disinfo

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Emergent is a real-time rumor tracker.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking