Promise Tracker is a collaborative data collection platform that allows communities to better understand and transform their social reality.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

New Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Co-design

A platform to show how the OTT Tax makes our digital and everyday lives harder, to learn what life would be like if the rest of the world had to pay it too, and to stop the spread of taxes like these elsewhere.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

• workshops

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information. The map is part of the Media Deserts Project, a joint research project of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, the Department of Geography and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Visit the post for more.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Posters and social media resources for Canva users

• print resources

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Social Media Exchange (SMEX) is a media advocacy and development organization with more than 20 years’ experience in commercial, development, and postconflict media environments

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

RNW Media supports local media and impact organizations to master persuasive storytelling techniques and creative formats to create strong narratives on the world’s most pressing issues.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Creating Technology for Social Change

• The People
• Graveyard
• Learn about civic tech

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Mit dem Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen unterstützen Wikimedia Deutschland, der Stifterverband und die VolkswagenStiftung Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler dabei, ihre Forschung und Lehre offen zu gestalten. Das Fellow-Programm startet im September in die vierte Programmrunde, wieder werden 20 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus verschiedenen Disziplinen gefördert und dabei unterstützt, ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit offen(er) zu gestalten.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone

assessing and analyzing the current state of media and prescribing technologies, practices, and ethics that might foster and promote deliberation

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

To improve the study of the impact of the internet on democracy by increasing the scale, quality and availability of social media data

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Media and social media analysis

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Media and social media analysis

The New Media Index is an effort by PEJ to monitor the content appearing in new media platforms.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Boston Civic Media is a faculty-led network that aims to advance the transdisciplinary domain of civic media research and pedagogy in the Greater Boston Area.

• Conferences
• Peer networks

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Gathering leaders in journalism, technology and philanthropy to explore the ways to strengthen local news and our democracy.

• Media
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Online Mediation Center is a pilot project at the National Law School in Bangalore, and provides online tools to address consumer grievances.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

The Global Impact Award recognizes media or organizations that have profoundly changed the world for the better.

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Awards and prizes

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Urban planning

The consortium will leverage a $275 million state investment to create and launch a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing center on the University at Buffalo’s campus.

TikTok Intelligence For US Politics

• TikTok

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Research tools

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

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

We use mobile technology to create scalable campaigns with immediate feedback

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

"JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based social networking website in East Africa founded in 2006. The online network is notable as the most popular social media website in Tanzania, according to AllAfrica" -Wikipedia

• Meet the others
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Online forums

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Media and social media analysis

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

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

What might it sound like if a reporter in rural Missouri partnered with a reporter in New York City to together explore contentious issues and uplift common ground?

• students

• Media
• Journalism
• Polarization

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic apps outfits
• Civic and social impact companies

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

As we move solidly into 2024, we have been considering how civic infrastructures, currently and in the future, will affect our experiences with technology, our experiences with services we take for granted, and how we relate to one another.

• Learn about civic tech
• Mainstream media coverage