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• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Visualizing open data in Georgia

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Tinfoil is a place where we can talk about digital security, privacy, and journalism.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is an enjoyable society of map enthusiasts. We have yearly meetings, an online discussion forum, and we work on a variety of projects and publications which promote good map making. We hope you’ll drop by and be a part of our collegial community.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

An online forum for community discussion

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

White paper analysis of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) activities to influence US politics

• reports

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

This project will develop ethical principles and guidelines, as well as draft best practices for the use of remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in crisis situations.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Mapping tools

Establishes New Jersey Civic Information Consortium; appropriates $20 million from General Fund and $1 million annually thereafter.

• The Tech
• Media
• Foundational layers

MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.

• Fight disinformation
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

The Civic Information API allows you to build applications that allow citizens and voters to know about their political representation and voting locations.

• Google

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards

First Draft is maintaining a database of expert sources on coronavirus for journalists to contact for up-to-date information on the outbreak.

• COVID
• COVID Media Projects
• COVID Data Projects

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Learn about civic tech

We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

In collaboration with the U.S. Department of State, IE University is leading Tech4Democracy, a powerful initiative to identify entrepreneurs dedicated to developing technology that will promote and protect democracy worldwide.

• Build something
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

• human rights
• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• cities
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

We use mobile technology to create scalable campaigns with immediate feedback

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

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Collaborating with Philadelphians to design better City policies and services.

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

CheckIT is a flexible, event-based mobile inspection tool designed by VPUU to improve the delivery of essential services in Cape Town’s informal settlements.

• informal settlements

• Issue reporting

Voter information portal for the 2021 Ethiopian election

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Find Out Who You Can Vote For

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research
• User research groups

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions

This free app includes information on 100 Senators, 50 State Attorney Generals, 50 Governors, 426 Congressional reps by state. And 1,964 State Senators and 5,443 State House Reps.

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project (https://climateintelligence.eu/) is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science in the detection, causation, and attribution of Extreme Events (EEs), namely tropical cyclones, heatwaves and warm nights, droughts, floods, compound and concurrent events.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

It can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

An 2024 election info hub and civic caravan for Romanian citizens

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits
• Environmental data

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is the first new NSF directorate in 30 years and "advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, giving rise to new industries and engaging all Americans — regardless of background or location — in the pursuit of new, high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

• STEM

• Govtech
• Economic development

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

A texting hotline promoting education for peace

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Israel Palestine

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Peer to peer SMS

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

• reports

• Polarization

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Citizen Engagement
• Social media

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Civic features
• Satellites