Civic Tech Field Guide

The GDELT Project

Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United States

Monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world

Anti-Monopoly

The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board. The players are Trust-Busting lawyers going about the board slapping lawsuits on the monopolies. The winning trust buster is the one who ends with the largest number of social-credit points when one of the players runs out of money.There are 3 kinds of company combinations on the board: Oligopolies, Trusts and Monopolies, marked by one, two and three “accusation circles” respectively. “Accusing” is done by placing a small, round chip of the same color as your token on such a circle. When all accusation circles of a combination are covered, the monopolistic practices of that combination have been ended. An accusation chip can be bought from the “Budget-Commissioner”; when lending money, he provides a Social-Credit card as an IOU.Variant rules are supplied for a Low-Budget Game and a Trading Game.Anspach fought –and won– a vicious court battle against Hasbro (and others) over this game.Anti-Monopoly was briefly (1976-1982) published as “Anti” and “Anti-Monopoly II” was published as “Choice” whilst the company was forbidden to use the word “Monopoly”. In 1984 after prevailing in court the company used the names “Anti-Monopoly” and “Anti-Monopoly II” for its two games. In 1987, Anti-Monopoly was withdrawn and Anti-Monopoly II was renamed “Anti-Monopoly”. The game described here was produced as Anti-Monopoly before 1976 and from 1984 thru 1987. The game produced as Anti-Monopoly after 1987 is a different game, with the same name. Plenty of potential for confusion there, eh?

Unfiltered.News

Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

Unfiltered.News maps what important news stories might not be covered in your country, using the Google News corpus to allow internet users to discover which stories are being covered in certain locations, how different countries cover stories differently, and how issue coverage changes over time.

NY Times “read the other side” experiment

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA

Read about how the other side thinks. We have collected political writing from around the web and across ideologies.

Facebook Tracking Exposed

Italy (Italia)

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

Facebook

Google Analytics

Mountain View, CA, USA

It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

Dispute Finder Archive

The Dispute Finder Firefox Extension helped you know when information you read is disputed by highlighting snippets if they make a disputed claim

extensions

Apple bans coronavirus apps from the App Store

Apple

MyGoPen

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

a convenient place to verify that our efforts are to have hope in the future cleaner network environment, cultivate hope we have a verification message can alert attitude Instead of sharing information. // 對於 MyGoPen 的起源是希望協助長輩或有資訊落差的朋友們，有個方便查證的地方，我們的努力是希望未來能有更乾淨的網路環境，希望培養大家都有個可以警戒查證訊息的態度，而不是人云亦云的分享資訊。

Beautiful Trouble Card Deck

San Francisco

A card deck for revolution

AllSides

Balanced News from the Left, Center and Right

MIT Open Documentary Lab Docubase

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Drawing on MIT’s legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to explore new documentary forms with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive, and immersive storytelling.

Midia Ninja

Tech & Check Conference

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

Hive Chicago Fund

Quartz Bot Studio

New York City

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

NationStates

NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals

The Interface

The Interface is a daily column about the intersection of social media and democracy.

Forensic Architecture

University of London, Malet Street, London, UK

Uses a mix of cutting edge technologies including 3D modeling, data mining, machine learning, pattern analysis, and virtual reality, to conduct independent investigations into human rights abuses and police killings

human rights

My Country Talks

Hamburg

My Country Talks matches political opposites for 1:1 conversations

OpenSources

North Andover, MA

Was a professionally curated lists of online sources, available free for public use

Warren's Meme Team

United States of America (the)

Saving the nation with selfies and memes

WhoAdvertisesOn

Brooklyn, NY

Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.

Wingu

Brazil (Brasil)

Non-profit organization specialized in helping other organizations through the implementation of innovative technological developments.

WanaData-Ke

Kenya

WanaData-Ke is a network of female journalists working on changing the digital media landscape by producing and promoting data-driven news and applying digital technologies to their storytelling.

Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

guides

Quandary

Quandary promotes ethical thinking and reasoning through a three-episode story that follows the development of a futuristic space colony on a new planet.

Win the White House

Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.

Talk About Local

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Hyperlocal in the UK

Grassroot

Johannesburg, South Africa

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).

The Dāna Project

44 Gerrard St E, Toronto, ON, Canada

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

apps

The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab)

3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281

The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Dangerous Speech Project

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.