Civic Tech Field Guide

The 100 Questions Initiative

A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.

Code for Japan

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

Japan's national civic hacking group

Civic hacking meetups

“Durante o Seminário, vários de nós voltamos a nos perguntar por que não temos ainda no Brasil uma instituição formada e mantida por jornalistas, independente, voltada para a troca de informações entre nós, para a formação profissional, para o aprofundamento dos conhecimentos e uso de ferramentas na área do jornalismo investigativo, para a formação de uma literatura e bancos de dados, para a promoção de seminários, congressos e oficinas de aperfeiçoamento profissional

Committee to Protect Journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report news without fear.

Media

The Open Data Institute (ODI)

Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

The London-based Open Data Institute (ODI) seeks to identify and demonstrate the value of open data for governments, businesses, and non-profits

European Press Prize

Good journalism is one of the hallmarks of civilized society

Digital Forensic Research Lab

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has operationalized the study of disinformation by exposing falsehoods and fake news, documenting human rights abuses, and building digital resilience worldwide.

human rights

International Aid Transparency Initiative Standard

Aid Effectiveness Team, Department of International Development, East Kilbride, Glasgow, G75 8EA, UK

The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance about what data organisations should publish and what format it should be presented in.

World Wide Web Foundation

The World Wide Web Foundation was established by web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to advance the open web as a public good and a basic right.

Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF)

Africa

The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa seeks to defend whistleblowers, as well as strategically litigate and advocate on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.

Code for Korea

Republic of South Korea (Hanguk or Namhan)

Founded in 2020 in response to COVID

Viamo

We use mobile technology to create scalable campaigns with immediate feedback

Reporters Without Borders

Reporters without Borders or Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) is an international organisation that protects freedom of the press worldwide by protecting the safety and security of journalists operating in threatening regimes.

Media

Doublethink Lab's Disinfo Walkthrough

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

A collection of easy to use resources for identifying misinformation and its psychological tricks

Fight disinformation

Code for Japan Summit

Japan (Nihon or Nippon)

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

Conferences

Code for Africa

Africa

Code for Africa is a people-driven movement that aims to empower active society and strengthen civic watchdogs to help government shape and improve its services to people.

Civic hacking meetups

A Day of Unreasonable Conversation

A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is an annual gathering expressly designed to equip creators of popular culture - including writers, artists, producers, and executives - for the year ahead.

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

Chequeado

Argentina

Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.

The Citizens

All the Citizens is a non-profit organisation registered as a UK limited company

POGO Action

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing

New Venture Fund

The New Venture Fund (NVF) works to achieve a healthier, more equitable world. Its work spans a range of issue areas to realise social and environmental change.

Center on Privacy and Technology

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy.

Institute for Public Policy Research (UK)

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is a registered charity and the UK’s pre-eminent progressive think tank.

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Africa Check

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

Africa Check is an independent, non-profit fact-checking organisation that aims to promote accuracy in public debate and the media in Africa.

Factchecking

ccHub Growth Capital

CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work to catalyze creative social tech ventures take place

Fundación Poder Ciudadano

Piedras 547 - (CP C1070AAK) - BUENOS AIRES - ARGENTINA

Argentine Chapter Of Transparency International

Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL)

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law bridges the worlds of scholarship, policy, and practice to promote democracy and sustainable economic development.

Center for Public Integrity

The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.

amaBhungane

AmaBhungane is a non-profit that conducts and develops investigative journalism in the public interest to promote an open, accountable and just democracy and a free press.

ALT Advisory

ALT Advisory is a public interest advisory and research firm focusing on public law, information rights, data privacy, emergent tech and social innovation in Africa

Correctiv

Essen

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

Bridgespan Group

The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit that strives to make the world more equitable and just

Development Initiatives

Development Initiatives Ltd., North Quay House, Quay Side, Temple Back, Bristol, BS16FL, UK

Development Initiatives works to end extreme poverty by making data and information on poverty and resources transparent, accessible, and useable.

No poverty

ONE Campaign

ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organisation of nearly four million people, taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

Co-op Foundation

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The Co-op Foundation helps disadvantaged communities overcome their challenges by putting co-operative values into practice. It aims to stimulate and strengthen community action that connects and empowers people so they can work together to make things better.

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Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading organisation fighting anti-Semitism through programmes and services that counteract hatred, prejudice, and bigotry.

Transparency International

Transparency International aims to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability, and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society.