Civic Tech Field Guide
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Vote Rookie
GermanyVote Rookie ist eine überparteiliche Demokratie Plattform. Wir unterstützen junge Menschen bei der Teilhabe an Politik und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement.
Mchaguzi
KenyaMchaguzi is an independent web-based, voter-centred electoral intelligence toolkit designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to enhance citizen participation and engagement before, during and after the 2022 Kenyan General Election.
CiviCue
TaiwanCiviCue is a democratic media equipped with blockchain voting and friendly voter authentication to establish shared understanding.
Urbanpinion
Eastern EuropeUrbanpinion 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.
Uchaguzi 2022
KenyaElection monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022
Hawkfish
New York, NYHawkfish 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.
Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period
South AfricaSouth Africa’s “Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period” (in draft form as of July 2020) is aimed at “every registered party and every candidate” with additional obligations under the code for how those parties and candidates must take appropriate recourse against any member, representative or supporter of that party or candidate who behaves in violation of the code.
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.
An initiative designed to help political parties become more inclusive and representative through an assessment that gauges men and women's perceptions of women in leadership, the types of social norms held by members of parties, and the individual, institutional and socio-cultural barriers to gender equality.
This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.
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.
Fato ou Fake
Brazil (Brasil)Fato ou Fake is a news literacy project that vetted more than 700 pieces of information ahead of the elections.
A live dashboard analyzing the top German candidate's presence on multiple social media platforms.
Digital Ethical Pact
PanamaPanama's Digital Ethical Pact is an agreement where signatories pledge to follow the following: 1. Collaborate with the Electoral Tribunal so that the electoral ban is respected and electoral campaign is only carried out during the permitted periods of 45 days before the internal elections of the political parties and 60 days before the general elections.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
"Pledge signed by political parties/individuals committing to transparency and preserving election integrity by avoiding disinformation and attacks by third parties." - Counteringdisinformation.org
MOE Election Observation
ColombiaThe Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements
Netherlands (the)This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.
The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.
Regional Elections Administration and Political Processes Strengthening Program (REAPPS) I and II in Europe
Prague, CzechiaGoal is to promote cross-border learning and networking on a wide range of existing initiatives and to develop new capacity in political participation, government transparency and election administration.
The roundtable highlights the current state of social media used by political actors ahead of the elections, seeking to understand and foresight how social media will impact the political campaign, and how to better protect the integrity of the campaign.
Real 411
South AfricaReal411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.
Argentina's Ethical Digital Commitment
Buenos Aires"Pledge signed by political parties and technology/social network companies committing to avoiding fake news and mechanisms of disinformation that may affect upcoming elections." - Countering Disinfo
Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.
Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.
A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.
Demokratiefabrik
SwitzerlandThe Demokratiefabrik is a digital place where citizens meet to discuss various topics together and fabricate defined end products.
Draw Congress
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USABy the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.
Part of the Data Detox Kit
Election Official Stories
United States of America (the)We share stories from election officials doing fantastic work.
The citizens agenda is a way for news organizations to ensure that voters get the information they need from the politicians competing for their votes, in order to make the best decisions they can. The approach can be used for any type of election: school board, local government, state government, national or otherwise. In order for newsrooms to adopt a new kind of thinking, process and behavior, it takes more than one passionate person to make lasting change happen. This readiness assessment is designed to give you a sense of how easy or difficult it might be to get a citizens agenda model deployed in your newsroom, so you can go in with eyes wide open around any challenges.
From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.
The Fulcrum
United States of America (the)The Fulcrum is a digital news organization focused exclusively on efforts to reverse the dysfunctions plaguing American democracy.
The Myanmar Tech Accountability Network (MTAN) is a network of Myanmar civil society organizations coordinating efforts to mitigate the risk of social media induced violence and political instability in Myanmar.
Use these free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help you educate students on the election and the importance of counting every vote.
AP provides tech companies with election updates via a proprietary API that tech companies can plug into with a subscription to answer voice search queries, among others.
Helping voters in English and Spanish
State-by-state info making it easier to vote
The People's Bus
New York, NYThe People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.
Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.
Tiszta Szavazás
Hungary (Magyarország)API access for the data of Hungarian ballot-offices, the candidates and results
Alloy Protect
United States of America (the)Safeguard voters’ rights with data-driven insights. Alloy Protect is an email report that helps election protection groups defend voter rights through transparent, timely access to voter file insights and data.
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.
Ballot Image Audit Tool
1150 O ST. Greeley, CO 80631This tool allows the public to view, sort, filter, and download ballot images from the 2021 Coordinated Election, permitting an extra level of election transparency from the comfort and safety of their home.
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Council Data Project
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaTransparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.
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VoteAmerica
San FranciscoVoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.
The Alliance is a nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.
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