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Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
Washington, DCThis new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
Cyber News Verification Lab
Hong KongThis project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.
Monitor do WhatsApp
Minas GeraisThis system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
Radar
Brazil (Brasil)Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil.
PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.
Open & Disclose aims to provide a platform for media organisations, journalists, columnists, and commentators to make public their interests, with the aim of strengthening institutional credibility, accountability, transparency, and trustworthiness.
Newschecker
India (Bhārat)At Newschecker, it is our aim to limit and crackdown the spread of fake news in society.
NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life.
Newscheck
India (Bhārat)Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.
Nepal Fact Check
NepalCenter for Media Research – Nepal (CMR Nepal) is an autonomous, research and policy-oriented, not-for-profit non-governmental policy think tank registered with Nepal Government and Social Welfare Council and is based in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
News Integrity Initiative
CUNY Graduate CenterThe News Integrity Initative is a global consortium focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.
Mozilla Web Literacy Framework
Mountain View, CA, USAIn today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Linterna Verde
BogotáLinterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.
Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.
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.
Civic Signal
AfricaCivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.
The Computational Propaganda Project
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKSince 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.
Social Science One
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USASocial Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.
Snopes
United States of America (the)When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.
Join Together
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Digital tools for trade unions
California Cradle-to-Career Data System
CaliforniaA statewide data system that will provide tools to help students reach their goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.
All Hands
United States of America (the)Think of us as talent matchmakers for democracy (but with less swiping and fewer awkward one-liners)
Send Texts, Make Change We leverage technology and our army of passionate, remote volunteers to help progressives run and win everywhere.
Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion
Oxford, UKOCSI provides high quality research, data and analysis to public and community sector organisations, helping you make better decisions – decisions that contribute to the public good.
The Pudding's clever visual essays present data in artistic and meaningfully interactive ways. Here they share "How to make dope shit", and other lessons.
Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era.
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U.S. GAO Technology Assessment Design Handbook
Washington, DCThe Technology Assessment Design Handbook offers both GAO’s own staff and other interested users tools and approaches to think about when designing technology assessments.
COVID In Boston
Boston, MAWith the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.
The Policing Project
New York City, NY, USAThe adoption of policing technologies must be guided by democratic legitimacy and an imperative to minimize harm.
"The aim of The Good Information Project is to claim back and own the inform in information."
Craft @ Large ...is an Intergenerational, Intercultural Hackerspace in MakerLAB @ CORNELL TECH
If you're new to the Good Tech Fest community, we work to utilize data and technology for social impact. Unlike other nonprofit or social sector technology conferences, we are very much focused on program and field technologies. Basically, how can we use technology to further our mission?
DEDA helps data analysts, project managers and policy makers to recognize ethical issues in data projects, data management and data policies.
MOJ Digital & Technology
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Transforming the justice system with digital & technology services
Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.
Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.
Advancing the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity.
It educated policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues. CPSR incubated numerous projects such as Privaterra, the Public Sphere Project, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the 21st Century Project, the Civil Society Project, and the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. Founded by U.S. computer scientists at Stanford University and Xerox PARC, CPSR had members in over 30 countries on six continents. CPSR was a non-profit 501.c.3 organization registered in California.
The citizens agenda is a way for news organizations to ensure that voters get the information they need from the politicians competing for their votes, in order to make the best decisions they can. The approach can be used for any type of election: school board, local government, state government, national or otherwise. In order for newsrooms to adopt a new kind of thinking, process and behavior, it takes more than one passionate person to make lasting change happen. This readiness assessment is designed to give you a sense of how easy or difficult it might be to get a citizens agenda model deployed in your newsroom, so you can go in with eyes wide open around any challenges.
To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).
The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration. The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations. Selected participants will have a chance to develop their ideas with guidance from policy advisors, meet with veteran policymakers to learn more about the nuances of policy implementation, hone their ability to craft actionable policy on the federal level, and build a community with their fellow cohort.
Algorithms Management and Policy Officer
New York CityIn 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.
City Possible™ is a new model for urban innovation in which a global network of cities, businesses, academics and communities work together to make the world’s cities more inclusive and sustainable.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott: 100 Days of Action Tracker
Baltimore, MDBaltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.
The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.
PlanX
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Plan✕ is a platform for creating and publishing digital planning services. It aims to make planning less hard work, for everyone.
The Boston Globe's Biden endorsement
The Boston Globe, Exchange Place, Boston, MA, USAIn this historic election, in addition to a traditional editorial that argues that the former vice president can restore the integrity of the presidency and set the country on a better path, the Globe editorial board make 12 cases for 12 different kinds of voters.
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