Civic Tech Field Guide

The Trust Project

The Trust Project, a consortium of top news companies led by award-winning journalist Sally Lehrman, is developing transparency standards that help you easily assess the quality and credibility of journalism.

The Vaccine Safety Project

Strengthening information on vaccine safety on Wikipedia

Wikipedia

The Social Media Dashboard for the German 2021 Federal Election

Germany (Deutschland)

A live dashboard analyzing the top German candidate's presence on multiple social media platforms.

The Social Media Tracking Centre

Ghana

The monitoring of mainstream media (TV, radio, newspapers) has become the general norm in Africa. However, social media trends are harder to track and must be taken into account too. Penplusbytes therefore developed what it calls the Social Media Tracking Centre (SMTC).

Name It. Change It. Research and Reports

Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.

women

Namibia Fact Check

Namibia

Namibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.

Code for Romania

Bucharest, Romania

Together, we build tech tools for a stronger society

A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders

A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders explores the use of digital methods to study false viral news, political memes, trolling practices and their social life online.

Suara Masyarakat

Malaysia

Suara Masyarakat (Community Voices) is an Internews Europe project with local Malaysian partners on a 36-month project which aims to strengthen capacity of Malaysian media as the key actor in promoting good governance, transparency and accountability.

Sure and Share Center

Thailand (Prathet Thai)

Thai News Agency’s ‘Sure andShare’ project, which encourages audience members to submit questions they have about content, rumours or stories circulating on the messaging app LINE.

LINE

StopFake

Kyiv

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.

La Constitución es Nuestra

Santiago, Chile

Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile

Social Science One

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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.

Speak Up & Stay Safe(r): A Guide to Protecting Yourself From Online Harassment

A guide written by targets of cyber-attacks that is designed for women, people of color, trans and genderqueer people, and everyone else whose existing oppressions are made worse by digital violence.

Socialize online

Putting Civic Online Reason In Civics Class

Stanford, CA, USA

The COR curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group as part of MediaWise—a partnership of SHEG, the Poynter Institute, and the Local Media Association.

South Asia Check

Kathmandu, Nepal

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.

Newscheck

India (Bhārat)

Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.

Nepal Fact Check

Nepal

Center for Media Research – Nepal (CMR Nepal) is an autonomous, research and policy-oriented, not-for-profit non-governmental policy think tank registered with Nepal Government and Social Welfare Council and is based in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.

News Integrity Initiative

CUNY Graduate Center

The News Integrity Initative is a global consortium focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.

Myth Detector

Georgia (Sakartvelo)

Fact-checking and media literacy

News Literacy Project

"The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org

students

News On Wiki NOW

Helping the Public Navigate a Challenging Media Landscape

Wikipedia

Netvizz

Netvizz is a data collection and extraction application that allows researchers to export data in standard file formats from different sections of the Facebook social networking service.

Facebook

NATO Stratcom Communications Centre of Excellence

Riga, Latvia

NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence

Nepal Election Commission Code of Conduct

Nepal

Nepal’s Election Commission published their electoral code of conduct in 2015, which established standards and regulations for various institutions, persons, bodies and authorities.

Mozilla Web Literacy Framework

Mountain View, CA, USA

In today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.

OwlFactor

OwlFactor automatically calculates the quality of an article based on four factors

Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace

Paris, France

The Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace of 12 November 2018 is a call to come together to face the new threats endangering citizens and infrastructure.

Observatorio Venezolano de Fake News

Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

The Venezuelan Fake News Observatory aims to educate and empower citizens in the face of a reality that is submerged daily in the misinformation produced, among other reasons, by the almost immediate viralization of falsified information that circulates, mainly, on social networks.

Open & Disclose

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Open & Disclose aims to provide a platform for media organisations, journalists, columnists, and commentators to make public their interests, with the aim of strengthening institutional credibility, accountability, transparency, and trustworthiness.

NoBias

In the age of social media, many of us ambiently consume news by reading headlines and descriptions that appear in our news feeds.

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Newschecker

India (Bhārat)

At Newschecker, it is our aim to limit and crackdown the spread of fake news in society.

NewsTracker

"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem." - Counteringdisinformation.org

NewseumED

NewseumED.org offers free resources to cultivate the First Amendment and media literacy skills essential to civic life.

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Newsguard

"Sponsored partly by Microsoft, Newsguard is a plugin for browsers such as Chrome, Mozilla, and Microsoft's Edge that validates news websites for users based on 9 journalistic integrity criteria." - Counteringdisinformation.org

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Siberkreasi

Jakarta

SiBerkreasi is a national movement to overcome the biggest potential threats that are being faced by Indonesia, namely the spread of negative content through the internet such as hoaxes, cyberbullying and online radicalism.

Snopes

United States of America (the)

When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.

Sobrevivendo nas Redes (Surviving on the networks)

Brazil (Brasil)

The "Surviving the Networks" project aims to strengthen civic culture in Brazil by offering information and strategies on how to better inform oneself in social networks.

Social Media Monitoring During the 2020-2021 Elections in Georgia

Tbilisi

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.

Rooted in Trust

Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

Rooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information MEMORY AND DISINFORMATION STUDIES

Tbilisi

Within the disinformation and memory studies direction, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) team is developing tools in several ways.

RESIST Counter Disinformation Toolkit

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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

United Kingdom (government)

RefB

A Bot to Add References to WikiData Statements

Wikipedia

Regional Elections Administration and Political Processes Strengthening Program (REAPPS) I and II in Europe

Prague, Czechia

Goal 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.

Real 411

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Real411 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.