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

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

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

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

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

Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Experiments in audience-centered advocacy media

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative 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

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

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

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

Social Science One implements a new type of partnership between academic researchers and the private sector to advance the goals of social science in understanding and solving society’s greatest challenges.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

AFP Fact Check is a global digital verification service that tackles damaging misinformation on topics such as COVID-19 and elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

RoveR is an app to help you spot real over rubbish news!

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

PUSAD is a center for research on religion and democracy, they conduct research on hate speech and political disinformation.

• hate speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

a tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Bots

MarvelousAI is an (inactive) early stage startup founded by tech industry veterans.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

The Manilla Principles on Intermediary Liability define various principles for intermediary companies to follow when operating in democratic and authoritarian environments, including that: Intermediaries should be shielded from liability for third-party content; Content must not be required to be restricted without an order by a judicial authority; Requests for restrictions of content must be clear, be unambiguous, and follow due process; Laws and content restriction orders and practices must comply with the tests of necessity and proportionality

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Manifestos

PBS youth media literacy effort. "This is a pilot – a test – with Ruff Ruffman videos looking at the red-hot topic of how kids can and should use media and technology."

• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Vote Lab is the innovation and research arm of When We All Vote. It was built to ensure that our voter engagement programs are informed by the best available research and evidence and creates opportunities to drive new experimentation and learning. 

• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

Circular City Studio, a program established with support from NYCEDC, encourages entrepreneurs to reimagine urban environments and help New York City address short, medium, and long term challenges facing our city. The 2020 iteration empowers engineers, inventors, and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to pilot technologies that support NYC's sustainability agenda and rethink energy, waste, and recycling systems in New York City. Selected teams will deploy products and services in testbeds around Manhattan and Brooklyn, working with program partners, domain experts, and research institutions to deliver solutions and introduce relevant technologies that can support community needs.

• Climate action

• Incubators

SMARTFISH H2020 is an international research project which aims to develop, test and promote a suite of high-tech systems for the EU fishing sector.

• Life below water
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital narrative.

• racial equity

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Hosted by Caterina Fake, Should This Exist? is a show that takes a single technology and asks: What is its greatest potential? And what could possibly go wrong?

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Podcasts

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• cities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

The Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital transformation

What if we could use rules, tests, and parameters to isolate hate speech? Can we identify and analyze elements like speaker intent, context, identity, tone, audience, or any number of indicators that transform words into meanings and change an innocuous statement into a verbal assault? Combating the proliferation of online hate speech and understanding its mechanics is a complex undertaking. We believe, however, that it can be done. And one way we are working to do so is by teaching machines to recognize hate.

• hate speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Media and social media analysis

The Global Innovation Fund is a non-profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C. that invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world's poorest people. We believe that the best ideas for solving some of the world's most critical problems can come from anyone, anywhere. Through our grants and risk capital, we help breakthrough solutions to global development challenges from for-profit firms, non-profit organisations, researchers, and government agencies to maximise their impact and affect meaningful change.

• No poverty

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Current is Chicago’s water innovation hub.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Smart Cities and sensors

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

The FactStream iOS app brings together the work of three of the largest U.S. fact-checking organizations, The Washington Post, PolitiFact and FactCheck.org.

• apps

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing

Housed at TED, The Audacious Project is a funding initiative that encourages the world’s greatest changemakers to dream bigger.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

GovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Digital transformation

A short guide to help keep journalists and their sources safe

• guides

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Research with Code for America on CalFresh, by Donald Moynihan, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd, and Julie Sutherland finds "hard evidence on the barriers administrative burdens pose."

• research

• Access social benefits
• Peer-reviewed research

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Resist the Parliament Shutdown. protest map, calendar, updates, posters.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Demographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression.✊

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

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.

• Media
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

Since 2002, the Fund for Global Human Rights has raised and invested over $100 million into the work of community activists in more than 25 countries, providing these bold local leaders with the funding, tools and contacts they need to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges. The Fund for Global Human Rights UK was established as a sister organisation in 2013 to build support for frontline human rights defenders in the United Kingdom and Europe.

• human rights

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Policy simulators

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech