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Pegabot
ITS Rio - Rua da Assembléia - Centro, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazila tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.
A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.
The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace of 12 November 2018 is a call to come together to face the new threats endangering citizens and infrastructure.
NGO "Ukraine-2050" is a working to counter disinformation through a media monitoring program.
Newscheck
IndiaStrengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.
NewsQ seeks to elevate quality journalism when algorithms rank and recommend news articles online. We approach this problem by engaging in design thinking activities in collaboration with technology, journalism, academia and other communities.
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
Namibia Fact Check
NamibiaNamibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.
A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.
Media Matters for Pakistan
PakistanMedia Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.
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.
Provides a framework for NDI's DemTech team to lead and support institutional initiatives countering disinformation and other forms of online manipulation, while strengthening and ensuring the integrity of the information space.
"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 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.
Global Network Initative
1325 G Street NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.
Factly
HyderabadFactly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels
Assis
Brazil (Brasil)Você sabia que muitos problemas da gestão pública podem ser solucionados com Inteligência Artificial ?
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.
Center on Rural Innovation
VermontAs strategists, advocates, connectors, and champions, we collaborate with members of our Rural Innovation Network to launch initiatives and programs that support innovation, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and tech job creation in the places they call home.
We co-create and facilitate a network of local knowledge hubs in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build on existing expertise in drones, data and AI, the “Flying Labs®” network.
Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.
Algorithms Management and Policy Officer
New York, NYIn 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.
The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.
Local Digital UK Training Library
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)While COVID-19 has put a temporary stop to our classroom-based training, we have created a library of online training courses to support local authority staff to learn and develop their digital skills.
Media Monitoring Africa
AfricaA non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.
The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.
A program that helps public intrapreneurs within cities around the world to develop their data innovation ideas into reality by providing dedicated support across a 6 month period.
By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.
Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute
Columbia University, New York, NY, USAThe Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is a new team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and journalists, working to build AI-powered, open-source products to help support local newsrooms and their businesses.
Our mission is to provide news product professionals with an inclusive community of support and elevate product leadership within the news community
COVID In Boston
Boston, MAWith 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.
This tool shows the perceptions and concerns about wellbeing and discontent expressed online by the citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean.
NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
A self-directed learning program, adapted from a selective executive education course, intended to support data stewards in creating public value through data collaboration
How can humanitarian organizations, states, civil society, academia and the private sector join forces to maximize the benefits of technology and humanitarian data while minimizing the risks of doing harm?
The e-LIberate / openDCN tool supports synchronous online deliberation with the goal of making decisions. It can be seen as an advanced chat where the times and modes of interaction are governed by Robert’s Rules of Order, a set of meeting rules that were designed to support equitable decision-making. This tool is intended to support groups of people who work together synchronously on specific issues or bound domains. 2003 e-Liberate is an online software application that facilitates online meetings utilizing standardized rules of discourse.
Civic Bridge recruits private sector professionals to volunteer their time
to work alongside government employees on critical City issues. Pro-bono,
private-sector support can increase the City’s capacity to identify and
analyze pain points, provide agile and iterative solutions, as well as
increase interest in cross-sector collaborations. Civic Bridge is a
cohort-based program, the program builds off of the example set by a number
of Cities such as Chicago’s Civic Consulting Alliance
A free relational organizing technique informed by behavioral science; a lightweight relational organizing approach that reaches non-activists; a commit-to-vote replacement that doesn’t insult your supporters.
In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.
Digital Equity Laboratory at The New School
The New School, East 13th Street, New York, NY, USAThe Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems.
CitizensLab
BerlinA participatory European community of practice made of local actors of change from different sectors and contexts dedicated to experiment, action-research, re-imagine and co-create how to live and work in Europe. CitizensLab is a self-organised community of practice currently hosted by the French organisation CRICAO. From 2016 until 2018 CitizensLab has been implemented by MitOst e.V. supported by Robert Bosch Stiftung, Stiftung Mercator, and European Cultural Foundation.
Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.
Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?
UnBias
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)UnBias aims to provide policy recommendations, ethical guidelines and a ‘fairness toolkit’ co-produced with young people and other stakeholders that will include educational materials and resources to support youth understanding about online environments as well as raise awareness among online providers about the concerns and rights of young internet users.
A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work. Hopefully, projects and contributors will find this helpful in figuring out the best options for them.
Gov.UK Ethics, Transparency and Accountability Framework for Automated Decision-Making
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)This 7 point framework will help government departments with the safe, sustainable and ethical use of automated or algorithmic decision-making systems.
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