Civic Tech Field Guide
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Journalism, storytelling, and other forms of interactive media are critical to civic engagement in democracies. Here we track those media and journalism tech projects that directly relate to citizens working to shift power in society.
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A February 2021 report by Polaris, The Soufan Group, and Limbik
Brown Information Futures Lab
Brown UniversityOur lab is where technology, innovation, policy and community meet, one pilot at a time.
Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin
Austin, TXThe Global DisInformation Lab (GDIL) was established in 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin to encourage collaborative interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of misinformation, and disinformation.
Information Futures Lab Fellows Program
Brown UniversityThe 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.
The Listening Post Collective Playbook
United States of America 🇺🇸As part of the Listening Post Collective’s commitment to developing civic media + power-building resources, we’ve launched a free, self-paced, digital learning platform that guides you through launching your own civic media project.
You are the senior editor of the world’s most popular and trusted news organization. You have the enviable power to set the news agenda, and thereby shift the zeitgeist.
Persuasive Games
Atlanta, GAWe design, build, and distribute videogames for persuasion, instruction, and activism
UNC Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
North CarolinaCISLM will grow a more equitable and sustainable future for local news, the journalists who make it and the communities that need it.
Track the trolls & sock-puppets poisoning our democracies
The African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO) is offering a series of seed grants and additional technical support for targeted research into how both state-affiliated and other lobbyist groups use influence/information operations and disinformation and targeted propaganda to subvert African democracies. The initial research grants focus on four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal.
ANCIR partners with investigative newsrooms to produce data-driven investigative reports using social network analysis, entity analysis and open source intelligence.
A.N.C.I.R. Misinfo
AfricaA project investigating the stories and the data behind fake news in Africa
OSINT framework focused on gathering information from free tools or resources. The intention is to help people find free OSINT resources.
The Panama Papers is an unprecedented investigation that reveals the offshore links of some of the globe’s most prominent figures.
ADDO is a coalition of investigative analysis + forensic research organisations that monitor how digital tools and civic technologies impact on the rights of African citizens
The Baltimore Banner
Baltimore, MDBaltimore news coverage, including politics, business, entertainment, food, and events. In-depth investigation and thoughtful opinion on the Baltimore region.
Interviews with 90 respondents
Lighthouse Reports
UtrechtPioneering Collaborative Journalism
An ongoing series of reports about ad-funded disinformation
Iraqi Journalism Rights Defense Association الجمعية العراقية للدفاع عن حقوق الصحفيين
Iraq (al-ʿIrāq) 🇮🇶منشور الزميل عادل فاخر
News Leaders Association
Reynolds Journalism InstituteNLA advances the cause of quality professional journalism, and welcomes news leaders, academics and others.
In the Name of Religion
AfricaAn initiative from Code for Africa and ICFJ for Journalists to Help Citizens Overcome Barriers to Religious Freedom
Investigating Religious Freedom training
Nigeria 🇳🇬Code for Africa partnered with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and Ayin Network to offer a combination of training, professional mentorship and story grants to journalists in Nigeria and Sudan, to enable them to produce digital storytelling around issues of religious freedom, so as to improve understanding of tolerance versus militancy and extremism.
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
750 17th Street NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006Journalists in ICFJ's unparalleled network produce news reports that lead to better governments, economies and societies.
Fakey
IndianaThis game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.
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.
FactsMatterNg
Nigeria 🇳🇬The ICFJ Knight Fellowship programme in Nigeria is working with influencers and media partners to combat misinformation and fake news in the Nigerian digital media space.
Factly
HyderabadFactly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels
Fact Crescendo
Crescendo Transcription Pvt Ltd, STPI, # 23, 24, 25 & 26, 2nd Floor, Naregaon Main Rd, MIDC Industrial Area, Chilkalthana, Aurangabad, Maharashtra 431201 IndiaFact Crescendo is an independent, unbiased fact-checking website that is committed to bringing the fact behind every news, debunking mis-interpreted & hoax news on a daily basis on false, mis-informed, social media as well as mainstream media.
FactBar
Finland (Suomi) 🇫🇮The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.
Facebook Digital Literacy Library
United States of America 🇺🇸The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Fact Check Initiative Japan
Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵FIJ is a non-profit organization for the promotion of Japanese fact-checking aimed at protecting society from mis/disinformation.
IFES looks forward to the virtual launch of a working group that will focus on tackling the challenges presented by social media and disinformation to electoral processes across Europe and Eurasia.
Ethiopia Check
Ethiopia (Ityop'iya) 🇪🇹Ethiopia Check debunks claims and exposes fake news using its platforms on Facebook (52,000 followers), Twitter (7,000 followers) and Telegram (34,000 followers).
The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.
EU Disinfo Lab
EuropeEU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.
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
EU vs. Disinformation
EuropeEUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. It was established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood.
Engaging Women in Politics in Uganda
Uganda 🇺🇬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.
El Sabueso
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."
Dubawa
Nigeria 🇳🇬DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.
Dutch Code of Conduct Transparency Online Political Advertisements
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.
Ecuador Chequea
QuitoData enriches public debate and therefore strengthens democracy. An informed society is capable of making conscious decisions.
Disinformation campaign map
Washington, DCA map visualizing the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab research on coordinated disinformation campaigns.
Efecto Cocuyo Chequea
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 🇻🇪We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.
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