Interactive Explorations for Students and Teachers, by Robert W. Maloy, Torrey Trust, Allison Butler, & Chenyang Xu

• students
• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

• Good health and well-being
• HIV prevention and care

• The Tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

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

Easily translate dynamic websites & apps while eliminating tedious file transfers from your localization workflow.

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

We make parliamentary debates more transparent and accessible

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

We've mapped more than 17,000 New Deal sites and now have more than 100 sites documented in every state.

• Civic maps
• Archives

Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.

• Google
• anti-harassment
• hate speech

• Solidarity networks

ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Empowering and inspiring civic innovators across central Virginia

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Experiments in audience-centered advocacy media

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

WordPress For News Organizations

• Media

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Journalism

Community-owned internet infrastructure

• coop

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Database of more than 20 million left-leaning donors

• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Our goal is to train the next generation of software engineers, policymakers, civic leaders and social justice advocates to develop, regulate and use technology for the public good.

• Civic hacking meetups

Instil holistically manages donors, members, volunteers, advocates and beneficiaries to foster nonprofit connections with their community for maximum impact.

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Manage volunteers

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

• trainings
• coaching

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

Climate Democracy Action (CDA) is a practice-oriented training and support program that prepares advocates and policymakers to use participatory strategies to drive local governments’ response to the climate crisis.

• trainings
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Accelerators

Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.

• Civic data
• Mapping platforms
• Mapping tools

The purpose of this handbook is to increase public communicators' awareness and understanding of information influence campaigns and develop their ability to respond.

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Misinformation Detector was a "decentralized trust protocol" tool to track news credibility.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

MozCheck was the first fact checking organization in Mozambique.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

This system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

Checkology’s lessons and other resources show you how to navigate today’s challenging information landscape.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.

• Digital literacy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The 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.

• Engagement tech
• Citizen Engagement

Bolivia Verifica is a non-profit, non-political digital media that is dedicated to the verification of false news and public discourse to fight against disinformation and improve democratic participation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

BotSlayer is an application that helps track and detect potential manipulation of information spreading on Twitter.

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.

• Media
• Journalism

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

EUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. It was established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

EU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Organized an e-conference for over 150 women candidates for elected office in Uganda, with a focus on navigating social barriers to political participation, including misinformation and cyberbullying.

• women

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Data enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

El Poder de Elegir is a project to monitor and fact-check the political information that circulates through WhatsApp during the campaign period of the presidential elections of 2018.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking