Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Digital Public Infrastructure

Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.

• X (Twitter)

• Media and social media analysis
• Filter bubble poppers

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• cities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

Annett Heft, Curd Knüpfer, Susanne Reinhardt, Eva Mayerhöffer, 2020

• Media and social media analysis

A sibling to ClaimReview that allows fact-checkers to identify whether a video or image has been manipulated.

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking
• Data schemas and standards

Measuring PRC Influence Around the Globe.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Investigating disinformation campaigns by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine

• Ukraine

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Investigative journalism tech

análisis de 30 medios de comunicación en España

• Media
• Data visualization
• Media and social media analysis

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

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
• Engagement tech

Using ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places

• public space

• Engagement tech
• Ideation

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

• Fight disinformation

Social Media Management Software for Politics

• Organize campaigns
• Social media

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

• LINE

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

Northwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Benchmarks

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Civic data
• Media
• Advocacy tech

NewsScore worked as a Browser extension, providing you with context on the news you consume online, as you scroll through your feed. Whether that’s on social media, newsfeed, or any type of online environment.

• extensions

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

Tru is a social media publishing platform built to elevate truth. It offers a clean, curated feed, with no ads, noise or surveillance. It's in private beta.

• Internal communication and coordination

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

The easiest way to contact your government

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Communicating with the government

Greenfly is the leader in digital media monetization. The Greenfly software platform empowers organizations to collect, organize and distribute digital media to partners and advocates to build awareness on social media, increase loyalty and drive revenue growth.

• Organize campaigns
• Social media
• Creators and Influencers

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

Montage enabled teams to work together to analyze and tag YouTube videos

• YouTube

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

A big 'Thank You!' to the hundreds of thousands of you who supported our two-month Kit Kat campaign by e-mailing Nestlé, calling them, or spreading the campaign message via your Facebook, Twitter and other social media profiles. This morning, Nestlé finally announced a break for the orang-utan - as well as Indonesian rainforests and peatlands - by committing to stop using products that come from rainforest destruction.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing

The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information. The map is part of the Media Deserts Project, a joint research project of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, the Department of Geography and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

Teheca helps connect new & expectant parents to nurses for in home & hospital postnatal care services and support. Its origin dates back to 2015, Teheca has evolved to focus on increasing uptake of postnatal care services for mothers not only in Uganda but the whole of sub Saharan Africa through education of mothers via mobile applications like SMS, USSD, smartphone application and social media about its importances as well as coming up with new and convenient ways for mothers to access postnatal care services.

• Govtech

Step into someone else's Twitter feed

• extensions

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

To provide research‐based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Ranked Choice Voting Election Result Visualization

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Data visualization

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.

• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundational layers

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

• harassment
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Civic engagement can take many forms and Cityflag, a mobile phone app that allows citizens to highlight and track local issues, wants to make it just a download away. Along with allowing users to post photos of infrastructure issues, Cityflag incorporates a social media tangent and mapping system where people can share infrastructure and City service […]

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Media

Networked Neighbourhoods is a consultancy combining the expertise of experienced practitioners in social media, communications and community development.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

What’s the connection between a campaign issue and a vegetable? ProPublica President Richard Tofel reminded us this month. “For too many voters, as every editor in her or his darkest heart knows…

• X (Twitter)

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Measured Voice was a social media management tool for government.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Media Meter was a suite of media analysis tools to complement Media Cloud

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

White paper analysis of the Internet Research Agency’s (IRA) activities to influence US politics

• reports

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

• harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

The Redirect Method is focused on reaching those who are actively looking for extremist content and connections. Rather than create new content and counter-narratives, our approach tries to divert young people off the path to extremism using pre-existing YouTube content and targeted advertising.

• extremism
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

the social good predecessor to Groupon

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which kinds of people respond to which content.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media