The Local Needs Databank (UK) is an open set of needs and Covid-19 data, specifically about those in financial hardship in the UK.

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects
• Needs assessment

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

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

Law requiring digitization of German government. Die Interaktion zwischen Bürgerinnen, Bürgern und Unternehmen mit der Verwaltung soll in Zukunft deutlich schneller, effizienter und nutzerfreundlicher werden.

• Government transparency
• Digital transformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Public engagement around plan to merge digital strategy and smart city strategy in Berlin

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Media and social media analysis
• Civic maps
• Public sentiment tools

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

• Civic data
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Provides fact checking, explainers, and analytical articles, especially on issues of economic reform in Ukraine.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

TrolleyBust is a service for tracking and blocking Internet trolls and other sources of anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The non­governmental organization Media Reforms Center is an educational platform, founded by Mohyla School of Journalism at National University of ‘Kyiv­Mohyla Academy’, which aims to implement high standards of journalism education in Ukraine, raise the level of media literacy, inform about the danger of propaganda and dissemination of fake information in the media.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

UK government toolkit to help support the dissemination of reliable, truthful information that underpins our democracy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

cekfakta.com adalah sebuah sebuah proyek kolaboratif pengecekan fakta yang dibangun di atas API Yudistira oleh MAFINDO ( Masyarakat Anti Fitnah Indonesia ) dan bekerja sama dengan beberapa media online yang tergabung di AJI ( Aliansi Jurnalis Independen ) dan AMSI ( Asosiasi Media Siber Indonesia ) serta didukung oleh Google News Initiative dan Internews serta FirstDraft. cekfakta.com pertama kali diluncurkan di acara ‘Trusted Media Summit 2018’ yang diadakan di Jakarta pada Sabtu, 5 Mei 2018 setelah penandatangan MOU oleh 22 Pemred dan Ketua Mafindo.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Information Resistance is a non-governmental project whose main task is to counteract in the information field external threats arising for Ukraine in the main areas: military, economic and energy, as well as in information security.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative emerged as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine in March 2014.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Counseling for Ukrainians living with HIV

• refugees
• Good health and well-being
• Ukraine

• Mutual aid

This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation

200 years of UK Parliamentary speeches. This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. This was part of a project led by the Commons and Lords libraries.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

LobbyControl ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein, der über Machtstrukturen und Einflussstrategien in Deutschland und der EU aufklärt.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Lobbying

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 Polarization Lab at Duke brings together scholars from the social sciences, statistics, and computer science to study how to bridge America’s partisan divide.

• Research and policy centers
• Filter bubble poppers
• Polarization

Spotlight on Corruption works to end corruption within the UK and wherever the UK has influence · We track how the UK enforces its anti-corruption laws

• Watchdogging and transparency

European matchmaking site for mutual aid donations of all kinds

• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

A Roof is a solution for identifying accommodation spaces to help refugees who arrive in Romania and need help immediately.

• Ukraine
• refugees
• housing

• Resource matching and sharing

Code for Romania's information portal for people fleeing war in Ukraine

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

CIR is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation & exposing human rights abuses.

• Ukraine
• human rights

• Fight disinformation

Democracy Pioneers is an award for innovations that are experimenting with ways to re-energise civic participation and everyday democracy in the UK.

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

Start a petition with one of the UK's largest campaign organisations. People power change

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A collection of 232 resources for political progressives

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

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

Climate Emergency UK assessed plans according to 28 questions across nine sections, based on the expert-approved checklist for Council Action Plans.

• Climate action
• local

• Report cards and audits

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

• Fight disinformation

We are the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

The UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport & place leadership.

• mobility
• mass transit
• cities

Now defunct Finnish crowdlaw platform

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Crowdsourcing

Case Studies from Around the World

• Books
• Design

The Open Datat Institute's art programme

• Artistic interventions

Invites citizens to share how they'd vote on issues, and track how representatives did

• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

In 2010, Paweł Reszka, Wojciech Cieśla, Michał Majewski and Roman Daszczyński got together to support journalism in the Eastern Partnership countries and created Fundacja Reporterów – the Reporters Foundation, one of the first journalistic NGO’s in Poland. In 2010 they decided to help journalists from various post-soviet countries, from Ukraine to Azerbaijan. For the first few years they trained people, among those who joined the Foundation’s projects are leading journalists in their countries (Kristina Berdinskich, Anna Babiniec, Dymitr Gnap) who have worked on well-known publications, such as the award-winning Yanukovych Leaks project.

Hromadske TV is an initiative of Ukrainian journalists that aims to provide unbiased, censor-free information on political, economic, cultural and social events to Ukrainian citizens.

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

All the Citizens is a non-profit organisation registered as a UK limited company. Most of its initial work has been undertaken by individuals volunteering skills and expertise. It is currently currently made up of around 80 volunteers: journalists, filmmakers, advertising creatives, data scientists, artists, students, lawyers and many more.

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world. But for all the benefits, technological developments have created new threats to our human rights. ORG exists to raise awareness of these threats and challenge them through public campaigns, media commentary, legal actions, policy interventions and tech projects.

The Fair Tax Mark certification scheme was launched in February 2014 and seeks to encourage and recognise organisations that pay the right amount of corporation tax at the right time and in the right place. It operates as a not-for-profit social enterprise and believe that companies paying tax responsibly should be celebrated, and any race to the bottom resisted. To date, the Fair Tax Mark have focussed on certifying businesses head-quartered in the UK, but a suite of global standards will be rolled out in 2021.

• Consumer watchdogging
• Trustmarks

Participatory budgeting platform in Ukraine

• Participatory budgeting

The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.

• Digital standards

Wir erforschen und erproben digitale Werkzeuge um gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen, Verwaltung und Unternehmen die Zukunft Berlins zu gestalten.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech