This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

A RCT on government staff customer service reps found that providing information on organ donor registration rates led to a 25% increase in signups

• health

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

2022 is going to be another record-breaking year for Black women candidates, and Higher Heights for America has collected the information for every Black woman running for office at the state and federal levels. These Black women are ready to run, win, and lead.

• racial equity

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Open data from an investigation of disparate outcomes in internet deals across 38 major cities in the United States.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Connectivity

We’ve launched the latest WFP Innovation Challenge in search of game-changing innovations addressing the Global Food Crisis.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Challenges

Como ya hicimos en anteriores legislaturas, vamos a monitorizar toda la actividad legislativa y parlamentaria de la Cámara baja para ayudar a la institución y a nuestros diputados y diputadas a cumplir con valores de gobernanza imprescindibles en nuestros días como la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.

• guides
• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Building in the private sector

Um laboratório de comunicação e mobilização para causas, com foco no desenvolvimento de ações e campanhas baseadas em dados e na compreensão profunda de nichos de audiência, cultura digital contemporânea e conjuntura política.

• Media
• Public Relations and amplification

Filterwatch aims to provide the information and tools to enable journalists, human rights advocates, and campaigners to hold Iranian policy-makers to account, and to advocate for a free and open internet in Iran, for the benefit of all Iranians.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy

The Digital Hub for Pro-Democracy Advocates

• Media
• Organize campaigns
• Creators and Influencers

The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Innovation teams and labs

Discover toolkits, tutorials, and templates for building winning campaigns.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

Providing democratic safeguards to the global communication and information space

• Govtech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

In partnership with Google and Propel, GiveDirectly is automating cash aid to Propel users living in areas deemed damaged by satellite imagery

• hurricanes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

This interactive dashboard displays the themes in fact-checking articles we scraped from IFCN-certified websites in the selected week.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data visualization

Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

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.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

Cite Unseen is a Wikipedia user script that helps readers quickly evaluate the sources used in a given English Wikipedia article. The script adds iconic indicators to identified sources that indicate various attributes of the source, such as if the source is a news article, opinion piece, or government-controlled.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Visualizes votes in Ukrainian parliament

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. They also invested in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia.

• Meet the others
• Open knowledge

Non-profit news site serving Kyrgyzstan, including election monitoring

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

• youth

• Academia
• Peer networks

El Chequeador es una plataforma educativa diseñada por el equipo de Chequeado para el desarrollo de cursos virtuales sobre Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional, desinformación, fact checking y otros temas relacionados.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The free and open global address collection

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Improving democratic politics is our mission: The Innovation in Politics Institute identifies, develops and applies innovations in politics and facilitates best practice exchange across borders and party lines.

• Participatory democracy

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

A magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Digital transformation

Taghreedat (Arabic: مبادرة تغريدات) is the largest Arabic crowdsourcing initiative in the MENA region.

• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing
• Translation and linguistic representation

LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.

• Climate action
• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

Forage is a USDA approved third-party payment processor (TPP) and a PIN provider that authenticates and processes EBT transactions.

• food
• Zero hunger

• Access social benefits

The Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.

• Peer networks

This page lists 479 instances of alleged and actual misconduct by legislators in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present.

• Watchdogging and transparency

A collection of tactics, cases, and guides to using information for activism

• Advocacy tech
• Fight disinformation
• Organize campaigns

Esta é uma plataforma de monitoramento de casos que levaram, puderam levar ou podem levar a bloqueios de aplicações de Internet no Brasil. Aqui se encontram materiais originais e análises, em português e inglês, de casos envolvendo bloqueios no país.

• free speech

• Circumvention tech
• Timelines

• Participatory democracy

Ushahidi instance crowdsourcing the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

• floods

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, by Francesca Bolla Tripodi

• books

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Fight disinformation

We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

• free speech
• apps
• WeChat

• Adjacent Fields
• Circumvention tech

ImpactBoard is a data management solution (and dashboard) that provides programmes with intelligence to achieve impact.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

Data Innovators' team is passionate about helping organisations push data boundaries to create positive futures. We are experienced in testing innovative and fit-for-purpose approaches to data analysis, communication, M&E, research and learning.

• Civic and social impact companies

MetaCert tells you which links are safe and which websites you can trust.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Blue Ridge Labs is a place where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers. We provide space, funding, and resources to help launch and grow tech platforms that address economic inequality in NYC.

• fintech
• Decent work and economic growth

• Accelerators
• Fintech for good

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

• guides

• Media
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

"Acumen is a nonprofit impact investment fund focused on investing in social enterprises that serve low-income individuals in United States." - Wikipedia

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A February 2021 report by Polaris, The Soufan Group, and Limbik

• anti-trafficking

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Stac labs accelerates party, state and local campaigns' analytical and technological capabilities.

• partisan
• local
• state

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The Global DisInformation Lab (GDIL) was established in 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin to encourage collaborative interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of misinformation, and disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

The Information Futures Fellowship is a novel opportunity for practitioners in public health, healthcare, community organizations, media, policy, design and other fields who are actively working on responses to the ongoing information crisis.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships