PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

• apps
• peace
• Gender Equality

• Engagement tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Whether it’s hate speech in our social media or bringing together diverse groups for online training, digital tools can harm and help our peacebuilding initiatives.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Civic tech catalogs

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

Hack The Press is a movement. We're not satisfied by the current situation of owned media, and we've taken Michael Jackson's song "Man In The Mirror" to heart.

• Media
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Social media
• Citizen Engagement

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

• Media
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

The Decentralized Social Networking Protocol establishes a shared social graph that is no longer dependent on a specific application or a centralized platform.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Social media

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Manifestos

At the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, change is in our DNA.

• Media
• Journalism
• Academic programs

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Creating and supporting independent news entrepreneurs

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Public Relations and amplification
• Creators and Influencers

We help nonprofits, impact organizations & issue focused organizations collaborate with creators to reach audiences more effectively.

• Media
• Creators and Influencers

Legitimate provides journalists and publishers with the latest [AI] tools to enhance their work while helping audiences build trust and have context in the content they consume.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

SeeSay2020.com was an online tool that allowed voters to report instances of misinformation, voting machine issues, polling place wait times, and more, with the goal to attract media and legal attention to verified, ongoing issues in real time.

• US Election 2020

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing

South Korean fact-checking organization, supported by government during the pandemic but now shut down

• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

This 3-month hybrid, tuition-free and highly participatory program invites journalists to explore generative AI through theory and practice, and add meaningfully to the conversation.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.

• Research and policy centers
• Surveys & polling
• Academia

Interaktywna przestrzeń do wynajęcia, w której dzięki technologii, sztuka łączy się z mediami

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

Our WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.

• WhatsApp

• Media and social media analysis
• Messaging app analysis

A free, open source tool that displays open analytics for Wikipedia pages

• Wikipedia

• Media and social media analysis
• Privacy-preserving user analytics
• General purpose open source tools

A federated social media platform alternative to Twitter (X)

• Mastodon

A collaborative, investigative network revealing stories that matter to communities across the UK

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

A free downloadable resource from Digital Charity Lab and ODV Digital, to help you ensure that your organisation doesn’t get locked out of its social media or other digital accounts.

• Nonprofit tech
• Social media

This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research tools

This is a simple app which generates a WhatsApp share link.

• WhatsApp

• Social media

This guide aims to provide helpful tools and techniques for identifying LinkedIn profiles and for extracting information that will then allow you to pivot to other social media profiles belonging to the target.

• LinkedIn

• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

A marketing page collection of Google's "tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely"

• Google
• commercial

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

A Window into Culture and Politics on YouTube

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).

• Wikipedia

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

whopostedwhat.com is a non public Facebook keyword search for people who work in the public interest. It allows you to search keywords on specific dates. You are granted access because of your work. We do urge you to donate a small amount of money to keep the server running.

• Facebook

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Bots

Digital Benin brings together all objects, historical photographs and rich documentation material from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artefacts from Benin Kingdom looted in the late nineteenth century.

• culture
• decolonization

FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).

• Social media
• Mastodon

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital transformation

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

We are a venture philanthropy investing in and building digital nonprofit newsrooms that are governed by, are sustained by, and look like the public they serve.

• Media
• Get funding
• Journalism

自由微博 (FreeWeibo.com)，匿名和不受屏蔽的新浪微博搜索，于 2012 年 10 月 11 日由 GreatFire.org 建立。

• Media
• Circumvention tech
• Media and social media analysis

Here we introduce StraightLines, a proof-of-concept tool developed by AOI’s Lucid Lens team, that automatically rewrites news headlines to reflect the content of articles in a more accurate, less sensational way.

• extensions

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

#KnowYourRightsHK is here to help you understand and exercise your legal rights.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

When founding The Oaklandside in 2020, we launched Mission Metrics, an innovative pilot program for reader feedback.

• Media
• Journalism
• Evaluate impact

Building community through local journalism

• Media
• Local news
• Nonprofit newsrooms

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Cybersecurity

This list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.

• Artificial Intelligence

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Consumer watchdogging
• Service alerts