Accountability Counsel amplifies the voices of communities around the world to protect their human rights and environment. As advocates for people harmed by internationally financed projects, we employ community driven and policy level strategies to access justice.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging philanthropy

Reese News Lab is an experimental media and research project based at the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We analyze the news from several perspectives, including from an economic, social, or political perspective.

• Media
• Journalism

Knowing without Seeing is a research project by Amber Sinha which explores meaningful transparency solutions for opaque algorithms, and privileges comprehension over mere access to information.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

• Fight disinformation
• Evaluate impact
• COVID Engagement Projects

On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Funding massively-scalable, long-termist projects with an effective altruism lens

• Graveyard
• Funders & donors
• Effective altruism

Nft-gated directory of low cost resources

• Emerging Tech Projects
• Blockchain
• Access social benefits

Last year we piloted an initiative called Community Connections at the Responsible Data mailing list, where we connected two or more members of the community based on their shared interests in responsible data(RD)-related topics, allowing them to chat about topics and projects related to responsible data.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

We set ourselves a task to create a short, simple, and practical resource to help teams who are designing projects to identify potential risks and harms.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Harvard Future of Media Project datasets of media ownership in the US from 2021

• Media
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

In order to encourage more outstanding talents to invest in the new-type democratic experiment field and accelerate the incubation of more achievements, the g0v zero-hour government loosening group of Dasong is held on a regular basis.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Disinformation Action Lab (DAL) at Data & Society forges new approaches to address the complex dynamics underpinning the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Last publication December 2020.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Hacks/Hackers is an international grassroots community of people who seek to inspire and inform each other to build the future of media.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. They also invested in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia.

• Meet the others
• Open knowledge

Catalist is a social impact network and digital library where you can discover projects, events, and opportunities to change the world.

• Fieldwide resources
• Expert networks

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The annual Innovation in Politics Awards recognise creative politicians from across Europe who have the courage to break new ground to find innovative solutions for today’s challenges.

• Awards and prizes

Initiators of successful political projects in a specific area of politics provide their know-how, experience and dos-and-don’ts in a highly motivating dialogue

• Conferences
• Peer networks

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films

Taghreedat (Arabic: مبادرة تغريدات) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region.

• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing
• Translation and linguistic representation

LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.

• Climate action
• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging Tech Projects

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks

In this project, we studied 13 government mobile apps – eight from the federal public administration and five from the state of São Paulo – that we believed most affect Brazilian citizens on a daily basis for their relation to services that are especially relevant to our day-to-day life and to the government-citizen relationship.

• apps
• reports

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

The nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge.

A free book on how to survive on social media networks

• books

• Books
• Social media

Community-led guides for data science and open research

• guides

• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy
• Books

For the first time, a representative microcosm of the entire American electorate was brought together to a single location.

• Participatory democracy

Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Nonprofit tech
• Digital literacy

Does your nonprofit have a technology related project idea that will advance your mission?

• Nonprofit tech
• Awards and prizes

Open Source for Equality is a beginner-friendly, safe space for women to participate in open source projects that promote gender equality.

• women

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Manifestos
• Open source networks

We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

• free speech
• apps
• WeChat

• Adjacent Fields
• Circumvention tech

Mchaguzi is an independent web-based, voter-centred electoral intelligence toolkit designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to enhance citizen participation and engagement before, during and after the 2022 Kenyan General Election.

• Voting and elections
• Factchecking
• Voter assistance tech

How to publish open data: a list of advice and tools

• guides

• Civic data

This handbook provides an overview of the creation, maintenance and adoption of a policy-related open data standard.

• guides

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Local Needs Databank (UK) is an open set of needs and Covid-19 data, specifically about those in financial hardship in the UK.

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects
• Needs assessment

The Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Open Data Toolkit is an instructional manual that provides a step-by-step guide on how to develop your open data initiative. It brings together training materials, best practices, tools and resources to help you prepare for and implement an open data project.

• guides

• Open government data

Mozilla Foundation is providing $258,300 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Stac labs accelerates party, state and local campaigns' analytical and technological capabilities.

• partisan
• local
• state

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

As part of the Listening Post Collective’s commitment to developing civic media + power-building resources, we’ve launched a free, self-paced, digital learning platform that guides you through launching your own civic media project.

• courses

• Media
• Online courses
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

• guides
• toolkits

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Games and gamification
• Digital literacy

SunTec.AI is an experienced data annotation company that offers premium data annotation services across diverse industry verticals. We create customized business-specific solutions for advanced domains, like AI & ML, robotics, healthcare, and technology.

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine learning

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

Transifex is the world's largest localization community for open source projects

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

A project investigating the stories and the data behind fake news in Africa

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Securely share information with Africa's finest journalists BLOW THE WHISTLE

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

Empowering and inspiring civic innovators across central Virginia

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups