Civic Tech Field Guide
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Know Your Rights Hong Kong
Hong Kong#KnowYourRightsHK is here to help you understand and exercise your legal rights.
an easy-to-use digital safety checklist
Aquaya
San FranciscoAquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.
Our Elections Integrity Program collects the expertise of our community of integrity professionals to help understand the impact the social media platforms have on elections and protect democratic elections around the world.
The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.
The Unfreedom Monitor, a project of Global Voices, is a project to analyze, document, and report on the growing use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance around the world.
Foundation The London Story
India (Bhārat)Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.
Advocacy Assembly
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.
Meta's Trusted Partners
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."
Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USAThis 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
In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.
USAID One Window for Citizens
Cambodia (Kampuchea)USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).
In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.
The Movement was founded to give the world better social media, where the people control the platform and receive its profits, where democracy and children are prioritized over corporate profits, and where the community is enabled to fight income inequality and the climate crisis LEARN MORE
Vocal Media
United States of America (the)We bring together influential creators and high-impact causes.
Activate HQ
New York CityActivate HQ is the online platform custom-built for social media influencer campaigns.
Humans of Public Service (HOPS)
United States of America (the)Our mission is to create content that tells the story of humans in public service, share stories that reflect the diversity in America in an effort to humanize public servants, and create a more positive perception of government.
Tracking two-dozen communication, Internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries.
The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.
PetaBencana.id
JakartaPetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
MyCandidate Nigeria
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.
Our democracy tech entrepreneurs fellows are selected from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia, which all live in the menacing shadow of Russia.
Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
X-ray contact
Slovenia (Slovenija)A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data
Attack Detector
Brazil (Brasil)An AI tool that detects cyber harassment of journalists journalists and environmental activists in Mexico and Brazil on Twitter
This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.
The Public Good Projects
New York CityWe use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.
After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Washington, DCBrookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.
Hatemeter
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online
Platform://Democracy
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyThe project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values. It focuses on the following question: Can "platform councils" or other institutions ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account in the rule-making processes of platforms?
Trusted Voices is a platform focused on increasing transparency in news media. Using blockchain technology, Trusted Voices tracks source material to create a chain of custody from the device used to capture content to its usage on various media platforms.
Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.
Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).
Vote Force
San FranciscoRelational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family
Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.
Los Desinformantes
ArgentinaLos desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.
At the Integrity Institute, we are tracking how misinformation performs on platforms to measure the extent to which platforms are amplifying misinformation, and the extent to which they are creating an incentive structure that rewards lies and misinformation online.
Trolling, or social media behavior that is uncivil and provocative is one of the most potent sources of political polarization today. You may have heard the expression, "don't feed the trolls," but how do you know if you are interacting with one? Answer as many of the questions you can about another social media user below, and our models will create a prediction about the likelihood that they are a political troll (an extremist who engages in uncivil behavior designed to antagonize the other side).
How do we ensure justice and fair treatment for all in a digital environment? How do we counter online hate, protect free speech, and use social media to reduce bias in society? The Center for Technology and Society takes ADL’s civil rights mission and applies it to the 21st century.
We asked experts on social media to grade how ready Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube are to handle the task.
The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database. The scraper relies on WhatsApp's export chat feature which allows 40,000 messages to be exported without media and 10,000 to be exported with media. If a media item has not been downloaded to your phone, it cannot be exported through the export chat feature. The archiver removes overlaps in different files exported from a chat; and anonymizes sender and group names.
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