The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The annual Innovation in Politics Awards recognise creative politicians from across Europe who have the courage to break new ground to find innovative solutions for today’s challenges.

• Awards and prizes

DemocracyNext is an international non-profit, non-partisan research and action institute.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Fight disinformation

The Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.

• Peer networks

Latin American fact-checking organization's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Nonprofit tech

We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

• free speech
• apps
• WeChat

• Adjacent Fields
• Circumvention tech

Powering comments sections

• Media
• Engagement journalism

The Public Data Lab is an interdisciplinary network exploring what difference the digital makes in attending to public problems.

A dynamic in-person conference on the people, technologies, policies, and cultures that make up the govtech ecosystem — brought to you by CivStart and e.Republic

• Govtech
• Conferences

Stac labs accelerates party, state and local campaigns' analytical and technological capabilities.

• partisan
• local
• state

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

• Good health and well-being
• HIV prevention and care

• The Tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations
• Nonprofit tech

WeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.

• Civic data
• Data visualization

Make Logistics a Positive Force for Social and Environmental Impact

• supply chain

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Participatory aid

We make parliamentary debates more transparent and accessible

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

CISLM will grow a more equitable and sustainable future for local news, the journalists who make it and the communities that need it.

• Media
• Research and policy centers

Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.

• Google
• anti-harassment
• hate speech

• Solidarity networks

ANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce data-driven investigative reports using social network analysis, entity analysis and open source intelligence.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at  Olin College of Engineering

• students

• Public Interest Tech
• Academia

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

Experiments in audience-centered advocacy media

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Maker of Wordpress, Tumblr, Longreads, and more

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

Parent brand of EveryAction, NGPVAN, Network for Good, and more

• Nonprofit tech
• Advocacy tech

Our goal is to train the next generation of software engineers, policymakers, civic leaders and social justice advocates to develop, regulate and use technology for the public good.

• Civic hacking meetups

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

• Organize campaigns
• Advertising
• Graveyard

Instil holistically manages donors, members, volunteers, advocates and beneficiaries to foster nonprofit connections with their community for maximum impact.

• Nonprofit tech
• CRM
• Manage volunteers

On the Open Data Project Gallery, you can find examples of open data in action and gain inspiration for projects of your own. See how NYC Open Data is used by activists to advocate for change, by entrepreneurs to develop products, by teachers to build analytics skills in the classroom, by government agencies to make data more accessible, and much more.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic tech catalogs

Encouraging individuals of exceptional talent and creativity to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.

• Fellowships
• Participatory democracy

Climate Democracy Action (CDA) is a practice-oriented training and support program that prepares advocates and policymakers to use participatory strategies to drive local governments’ response to the climate crisis.

• trainings
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Accelerators

Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.

• Civic data
• Mapping platforms
• Mapping tools

A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

During the months leading up to the 2018 presidential election , students at the Énois School of Journalism in São Paulo and the youth of data_lab in Rio checked weekly for facts and rumors that could impact on the electoral process, Whatsapp networks - mostly young and peripheral.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

• Engagement tech
• Citizen Engagement

Daily, journalists from Aos Fatos follow statements by politicians and authorities of national expression, from different party colors, in order to verify if they are speaking the truth. For this, we adopted a formula with seven steps to carry out our checks.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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

El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Doble Check is a public discourse auditing project financed by the University of Costa Rica and which operates as a project affiliated with Radio Stations UCR.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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

DIRT is a protocol for decentralized information curation that uses token staking to incentivize honesty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

La Silla Vacía is an informative and interactive medium for people interested in current Colombian politics.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media
• Fight disinformation

DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsroom partnership networks