PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

• indigenous

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Fogo Cruzado (Cross-fire) is a laboratory of data on armed violence that aggregates and makes data and information available through an application for mobile technology combined with a database. It is a collaborative digital platform that aims to record the incidence of shootings and the prevalence of armed violence in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro and Recife.

• apps
• gun safety

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

It empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

“Marsad Baladia” , or the Municipality Observatory, was launched in January 2014, aiming to monitor municipal activity through access to information, and to present it in a clear and updated manner. The project also aims to strengthen the link between the municipality and citizens,

• cities

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

O Impacto.Jor é uma iniciativa para medir o impacto do jornalismo na vida das pessoas, através de um software criado para reportar e agregar impactos.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

Community-based monitoring (CBM) allows civil society to gather and analyse information from the service users’ points of view. It recognises that communities, citizens and public service users are active holders of fundamental rights and not merely passive users of public services. As a result, CBM provides strong evidence to take back to government and, where necessary, into the public domain, in order to better the delivery of services where needed and to acknowledge good service where it is provided.

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• cities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement. With this information, community organizations, decision markers, and local residents can push back with outreach, education, organizing strategies, and policy change.

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

People's Assembly is a website that provides information about elected representatives for example, finding out what member of parliaments have been saying in parliament and it allows citizens to provide feedback to the representatives and institutions.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

Ciklograd je web servis kojim želimo dapovećamo informisanost, bezbjednost i brojnost učesnika u biciklističkom saobraćaju u Podgorici.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

An embeddable widget hosted by TurboVote

• US Election 2020
• widgets

• Voting and elections
• Find your polling place

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Governing.Digital is a clearinghouse for trustworthy information and analysis about digital governance for governments, technology companies, nonprofits, journalists, and the public.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Your business is your livelihood and your reputation. Mind My Business™ sent you customized notifications to help you make more informed decisions that save you time and money.

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

We believe Congress should publish legislative information in formats both humans and computers can make sense of. Our mission is to promote greater transparency, preservation, and access to Congressional data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.

• COVID
• Civic hackathons
• COVID Engagement Projects

Code for Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh region’s Code for America Brigade, makes the Pittsburgh region a better place through the use of information and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Welcome to the My League Online info center! My League Online (MyLO) Drupal website program leverages new technologies to make state and local League websites high-performing and easy to use.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Providing citizens, journalists, and civic activists with a practical and easy-to-use tool to understand the ownership structure of the world they live in, demonstrating the practical applications of open information for normal citizens

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

We help you vote, no matter what.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

An Open Protocol for Establishing Information Relevance in Crypto-Economic Networks

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Iran's first and only promise-tracker

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A bipartisan group of prominent political strategists announced an Internet information venture designed to interact with America's opinion leaders and serve as an antidote to the right-left clash that typifies political discourse on the Web.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

DGI curates focused, in-depth programs where technical communities gather to share their knowledge and success. DGI delivers substantial, useful information

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Build SMS bots for remote surveys

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

• air quality
• noise
• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

MedAfrica is your direct access to health information and services. With this app you can search, filter and view health information and services near you even when offline as well as connect with doctors on the go. Other services include Hospitals, Diagnosis, Symptoms, Nutrition, Drugs, First Aid, Insurance and Fitness. Med Africa personalizes your health services by frequency of use.

MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Montage enabled teams to work together to analyze and tag YouTube videos

• YouTube

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Penda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Es un proyecto que nace desde la sociedad civil para fortalecer sus capacidades de incidencia en los procesos de toma de decisión política y en la generación de un debate público informado sobre la pobreza y la justicia social en España.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The aim of the Easy Voter Guide project is to make nonpartisan information about why vote, how to vote and what’s on the ballot accessible to as many

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

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• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Absența la votul electronic a deputaților României

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard

Beginning in January 2016, our team interviewed journalists and nonjournalists to get a sense of the elements that create trust and credibility between communicator and receiver. We read related academic research and industry best practices.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• COVID
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects