Civic Tech Field Guide
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"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."
The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.
The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.
The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.
SSRC Media Well
Brooklyn, NYDisinformation, misinformation, and “fake news” are longstanding phenomena that, in the wake of the digital revolution, have become newly politicized and consequential. SSRC's research on the topic.
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.
Center for Policy Alternatives
Sri LankaThe 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.
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.
AFRICMIL
Abuja, NigeriaAFRICMIL is non-government organisation that focuses on media, information, research, advocacy and training. It aims to promote media and information literacy as a key component in the enhancement of democracy and good governance and the promotion of accountability and orderly society.
The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.
We are a joint team of engineers and investigators from CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle, trying to build a comprehensive tool for media verification on the Web.
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.
FakerFact was an Artificial Intelligence tool built to help us understand more about what we read.
EU Disinfo Lab
EuropeEU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.
Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."
DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.
Disinformation campaign map
Washington, DCA map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.
Dubawa
NigeriaDUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
Digital Democracy Room
Rio de JaneiroThe Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral processes, seeking to strengthen the democratic institutions.
Desconfío
ArgentinaDesconfío is an initiative launched by the Data Concepción team. It builds tools, produces research, and leads trainings.
The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.
The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.
Connects academic research on disinformation threats and vulnerability to governments, CSOs, technology firms, political organizations.
Detektor Media
Ukraine (Ukrayina)Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.
Debunk.eu
Lithuania (Lietuva)DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.
Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
Washington, DCThis new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
Cyber News Verification Lab
Hong KongThis project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
Strengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia
The Media Manipulation Casebook
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USACase studies. The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.
The Computational Propaganda Project
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKSince 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.
Tattle
India (Bhārat)Tattle is a group of technologists, researchers, journalists and artists. We build tools and datasets to better understand and respond to (mis)information trends on chat apps and regional language social media in India.
Social Science One
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USASocial Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.
Putting Civic Online Reason In Civics Class
Stanford, CA, USAThe COR curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group as part of MediaWise—a partnership of SHEG, the Poynter Institute, and the Local Media Association.
South Asia Check
Kathmandu, NepalSouth Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.
Reveal
Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg)EU research project toto advance the necessary technologies for making a higher level analysis of social media possible. Ended 2017.
Demokratiefabrik
Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)The Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.
Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.
California Cradle-to-Career Data System
CaliforniaA statewide data system that will provide tools to help students reach their goals and deliver information on education and workforce outcomes.
A programme aimed at circumventing our geographic limitations and strengthening regional connection and participation within the African civic tech community.
Focuses on bringing together practicing technologists and researchers to facilitate understanding of the complex interaction between technology, science and society, its impact on individuals and society in general, professional and social responsibility in the practice of engineering, science, and technology, and open discussion on the resulting issues.
Vote Lab is the innovation and research arm of When We All Vote. It was built to ensure that our voter engagement programs are informed by the best available research and evidence and creates opportunities to drive new experimentation and learning.
NYU Public Interest Technology Institute
New York University, New York, NY, USAA 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology
XR Collaboratory
Cornell TechThe XR Collaboratory (XRC) at Cornell Tech works with faculty, researchers and students from computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction, as well as practitioners in application areas such as healthcare, education, and architecture.
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.
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