The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Internet & Democracy Initiative will study problems that have widespread information and social media implications.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Peer networks
• Digital transformation
• Data governance

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

56 countries working together for prosperity, democracy and peace

• human rights

• Peer networks

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

With a mission to combat online abuses, particularly image-based sexual abuse, while advocating for legislative reform and providing support to victims.

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy

The Chanzo Initiative exists at the interface between advocacy and journalism. It is founded to uplift the voices of the underreported, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in Tanzania with the goal to make Tanzania the best place to live for everyone regardless of class, creed, sexual orientation and nationality.

• Media
• Journalism
• Engagement journalism

Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative (SEATTI) established to hold its key purpose to support civil society organizations that use or intend to use technology and media platforms to empower citizens in their respective countries to hold their public institutions transparent and accountable

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Foundation initiatives

Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.

• local

• Community wifi

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Building in the private sector

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.

• Media
• Games and gamification

În calitate de think tank independent, IDIS combină cercetarea socială, politică și economică cu componente solide de advocacy. Instituția realizează cercetări aplicate de monitorizare pe mai multe domenii: economie, politica socială, politicile UE, dezvoltarea regională, dar și riscurile de securitate și de politică externă.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) is a donor collaborative working toward a democratic world where power and resources are more equally distributed; people are informed and empowered, governments and the corporate sector are open and responsive, and collective action advances the public good.

• Foundation initiatives
• Open philanthropy

Salt Lake City's govtech innovation program is focused on modernization and digital equity for residents. "Another area the department will focus on is integrating the city’s “Digital Equity For All” policy. Passed in September 2020, the policy aims to provide residents with the opportunity to access and use information and communication technologies reliably. The resolution, which was inspired by the importance of technology during the pandemic, aims to incorporate three concepts: relevant content, services, hardware and digital literacy into the city’s policymaking. To achieve this, the department will: increase usage and understanding of digital and communications technology address potential barriers to digital inclusion address the need for digital literacy training address the need for access via reliable and affordable devices address the need for language and disability accommodations develop relevancy and advocacy campaigns within specific communities and populations" https://www.govtech.com/gov-experience/Salt-Lake-City-Mayor-Announces-New-Innovation-Department.html

• cities

International Aid Transparency Initiative IATI is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian resources and their results to address poverty and crises.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Transparency International chapter

• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency

Media Defence provides legal help to journalists, citizen journalists and independent media across the world.

From 2005-2017, CeRI was a multidisciplinary group of Cornell University researchers engaged intheoretical and applied research, in partnership with government agenciesand civil society groups, to discover how the design and process of online engagement can support public discussion that is informed, inclusive and

• Engagement tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A set of recommendations for infrastructure improvements based on a series of interviews with and stories collected from local election officials

• reports

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties

• cities

• Govtech
• Data governance
• Working groups

Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda. CTENs mission is to give community knowledge in digital technology for purposes of understanding and eventually building digital skills for employability, resulting in livelihoods resilience.

• refugees

• Co-design
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

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.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The Media Manipulation Initative takes a sociotechnical approach to understanding the social, political, and economic incentives to game information systems, websites, platforms, and search engines—especially in cases where the attackers intend to destabilize democratic, social, and economic institutions.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

Annir is a non-partisan digital initiative specialized in raising awareness about Media & Information Literacy and Digital Safety.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The News Integrity Initative is a global consortium focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Concise summaries of a range of tech + society considerations

• News and blogs

We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

OpenCovid19 is a JOGL program that develops open-source and low-cost tools and methodologies that are safe and easy to use in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

• COVID Engagement Projects

How can humanitarian organizations, states, civil society, academia and the private sector join forces to maximize the benefits of technology and humanitarian data while minimizing the risks of doing harm?

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors