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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Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform
Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DCThe Disinfo Defense League Policy Platform is a series of legislative, executive, and international recommendations addressing disinformation.
Doble Check
University of Costa RicaDoble Check is a public discourse auditing project financed by the University of Costa Rica and which operates as a project affiliated with Radio Stations UCR.
DisinfoWatch
Canada 🇨🇦DisinfoWatch is a Canadian foreign disinformation monitoring and debunking platform.
A user guide for civil society organizations and researchers to assess the vulnerability of a country’s electoral integrity to online manipulation.
Digital Democracy Room
Rio de JaneiroThe Digital Democracy Room is an initiative of FGV DAPP to monitor the public debate on the internet and fight disinformation strategies which threaten the integrity of political and electoral processes, seeking to strengthen the democratic institutions.
Digital Ethical Pact
Panama 🇵🇦Panama'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.
The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.
Digital Democracy Charter
36-38 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8EB, UK"The Digital Democracy Charter outlines several guiding principles on countering online disinformation and strengthening our democracies given the new digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org
The Digital Democracy Monitor Toolkit seeks to empower researchers with the knowledge, tools and examples to analyse democratic discourse online.
Digit Eye
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳Digiteye India is an independent digital news fact-checking venture by a small group of veteran journalists who came together to bring forth authentic facts behind daily news and claims being passed on as news, social media messages and views.
A report analyzing online spaces being weaponized to exclude women leaders and undermine the role of women in public life. It investigates gendered disinformation on Poland and the Philippines through Twitter data analyses.
Desconfío
Argentina 🇦🇷Desconfío is an initiative launched by the Data Concepción team. It builds tools, produces research, and leads trainings.
Detector de Mentiras
Colombia 🇨🇴La Silla Vacía is an informative and interactive medium for people interested in current Colombian politics.
Detektor Media
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.
Our mission is to ensure that information technology and social media play a proactive role in supporting democracy and human rights globally.
The DeepTrust Alliance is a global coalition of stakeholders advancing the fight against digital disinformation and deepfakes.
Connects academic research on disinformation threats and vulnerability to governments, CSOs, technology firms, political organizations.
Debunk.eu
Lithuania (Lietuva) 🇱🇹DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.
Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
Washington, DCThis new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.
Cyber News Verification Lab
Hong KongThis project is an experiment in experiential learning through a cyber verification lab at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre.
Countering Information Influence Activities: A handbook for communicators
Sweden (Sverige) 🇸🇪The purpose of this handbook is to increase public communicators' awareness and understanding of information influence campaigns and develop their ability to respond.
Countering Misinformation about Armenia
Armenia (Hayastán) 🇦🇲Monitoring of the selected talk shows, newspapers, electronic periodicals of both Russian and Armenian mass media to examine the media coverage, the possible labelling and targeted information conveyed to wide audiences in the result of the activity of Russian and Armenian news and information periodicals, TV talk shows and websites.
In 12 episodes, Jay Smooth teaches you Media Literacy! Based on an introductory college level curriculum, this series takes you through the history and psychology of media and gives you the skills to become more media savvy.
Credibility Coalition
San FranciscoThe Credibility Coalition brings people together to develop common standards for information credibility.
The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.
NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil society.
MOE Election Observation
Colombia 🇨🇴The Election Observation Mission (La Misión de Observación Electoral, MOE) is an election observer group based in Colombia.
Monitor do WhatsApp
Minas GeraisThis system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.
Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.
The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.
Memo 98
Slovak Republic (Slovensko) 🇸🇰Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.
SSRC Media Well
BrooklynDisinformation, misinformation, and “fake news” are longstanding phenomena that, in the wake of the digital revolution, have become newly politicized and consequential. SSRC's research on the topic.
The mission of MediaWise is to empower people of all ages to be more critical consumers of content online.
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.
USAID Media Program in Ukraine
Ukraine (Ukrayina) 🇺🇦The USAID-funded Media Program in Ukraine will empower local media to expand Ukrainian citizens’ access to high-quality news and information.
Checkology’s lessons and other resources show you how to navigate today’s challenging information landscape.
Chequea Bolivia
Bolivia (Buliwya / Wuliwya / Volívia) 🇧🇴A fundamental pillar of the democratic system is that there is freedom of expression and dissemination, and that citizens are duly informed to make correct decisions in their daily lives.
CongoCheck
Democratic Republic of the Congo (République Démocratique du Congo) 🇨🇩Congo Check est un média spécialisé dans la vérification des faits ou factchecking. Congo Check est un projet de l'ASBL/ONG Initiative des fact-chechekers du Congo, IFC.
Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.
Demtech Navigator
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKThis is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation. Let us know your concerns and we will suggest resources, curated by civil society practitioners and the Programme on Democracy and Technology.
Comprova
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷Comprova brings together journalists from 28 different Brazilian media companies to identify and explain rumors, fabricated content and manipulation tactics that might influence the 2018 presidential election campaign.
Claim Buster
Arlington, Texas"Claim Buster allows for fact checking of individual personal claims or claims by public officials. Users can insert their own claims or links to claims said publically to find out their factuality." - Countering Disinfo
Civil Network OPORA
01021 KyivOne 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.
Coalizão para Checagem, Eleições 2020
Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷TSE coordinated a fact-checking coalition, comprising nine renowned fact-checking organizations from the media, named “Coalizão para Checagem – Eleições 2020” (Fact-Checking Coalition – 2020 Elections).
Code of Conduct: Measures to Address Disinformation Intended to Cause Harm During the Election Period
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦South 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.
Civic Signal
AfricaCivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.
ZimFact
Zimbabwe 🇿🇼ZimFact is an independent, non-partisan Zimbabwean online fact-checking platform.
Voluntary Code of Ethics - India 2019 Election
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳Prior to 2019 elections, the Election Commission of India was able to convene representatives from top social media companies for a two-day brainstorming session on approaches to problematic social media content in elections.
What’s Crap on WhatsApp?
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp
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