Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

• reports

• Polarization

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Citizen Engagement
• Social media

Your starting point for data about local MPs, constituencies, public opinion and the climate and nature movement.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Civic data

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®.

• Democratic Innovations
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

A platform for the public sector to directly consult with the citizens.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Mediante el proyecto audiovisual Voces de una nueva generación, hemos recopilado testimonios de jóvenes nacidos a partir de los años 90, que han forjado sus opiniones a través de la memoria colectiva, historias familiares y documentos de la época.

• Story-based campaigns
• Narrative tech

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Reports

Hate speech on the internet has regrettably become an increasingly pressing social issue. The NETTZ network aims to confront the current trend by supporting moral courage on digital media as well as cultivating a positive debate and opinion culture on the web.

• hate speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Democracy Festivals are the platforms for constructive political dialogue across opinions, age, gender, and hierarchy, where people come together each summer to discuss how to improve their countries.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences

Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.

• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We aggregate the best evidence, analysis and expert opinions to help you make informed career decisions that maximize your impact

• Find a job or hire someone
• Effective altruism

Cite Unseen is a Wikipedia user script that helps readers quickly evaluate the sources used in a given English Wikipedia article. The script adds iconic indicators to identified sources that indicate various attributes of the source, such as if the source is a news article, opinion piece, or government-controlled.

• Media
• Media literacy
• Fight disinformation

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

Association féministe intersectionnelle à l'origine de #TwitterAgainstWomen, notre objectif est de sensibiliser et d'informer sur les cyberviolences, les droits des victimes et les recours possibles.

• Gender Equality
• LGBTQI
• harassment

• Solidarity networks
• Hotlines
• Campaign organizations

The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Creators and Influencers

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

OwlFactor automatically calculates the quality of an article based on four factors

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

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

Fiskkit allows news readers to annotate the news line by line

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Engagement journalism

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

BOOM is an independent digital journalism initiative. We are India’s premier fact checking website, committed to bring to our readers verified facts rather than opinion. When there is a claim, we will fact check it.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Supports original research into disinformation vulnerability and resilience with public opinion research, analytical pieces, narrative monitoring, and mainstream and social media monitoring, both in house and in collaboration with local partners in Europe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

470 tech policy resources

• Tech or Digital Policy

Advancing the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity.

• Digital literacy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.

• Research and policy centers

The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing American democracy.

• News and blogs

Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3

• Civic data
• Justice tech
• Archives

People using Polarizer can rate the mutual polarization level of one-on-one chats. Their opinions and ratings are visualized as a network graph. The graph is clustered by the peoples mutual polarization ratings.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Polarization

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

• Fight disinformation

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• Books
• Citizen Engagement
• Artificial Intelligence

• cities

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Playbooks and design principles

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Digital participation platform built for village-level opinion-sharing, discussion, and decision-making

• apps

• Digital participation platforms

Appgree is the only technology that can sift through the hundreds or thousands of opinions a group might have and find common ground among such a vast array of data. What’s more, it does all this in a matter of minutes.

• Group decision making
• Graveyard

Intervozes – Coletivo Brasil de Comunicação Social is an organisation that works for the realisation of the human right to communication in Brazil.

• Translation and linguistic representation

The South African Data Archive serves as a broker between a range of data providers (for example, statistical agencies, government departments, opinion and market research companies and academic institutions) and the research community. The archive does not only preserve data for future use, but all adds value to the collections. It safeguards datasets and related documentation and attempts to make it as easily accessible as possible for research and educational purposes. The Data Portal provides access to the SADA holdings of data sets. It allows online browsing according to specific collections, including author, title, subject and date. The Advanced Search facility facilitates searching by keywords. The Study Descriptions and certain documentation can be downloaded from the portal. Please order the data directly from SADA by completing an "Order Form".

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Confronting opposite opinions to fight filter bubbles

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

DeepFreeze is a journalism reference resource, conceived to supply a reader with easily-digested information to determine the reliability of an individual writer or outlet.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

WAT IS JOUW POLITIEKE SMAAK?

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Organize campaigns
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Today we're excited to announce we’ve joined forces with ProPublica to incorporate health care statistics and consumer opinion survey data onto the Yelp business pages of more than 25,000 medical treatment facilities.

• civic features

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Debate
• Engagement tech
• Ideation