Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
Nepal Election Commission Code of Conduct
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
In today’s digital world, knowing how to read, write, and participate online is a foundational skill next to reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Namibia Fact Check
Namibia Fact Check is an impartial initiative that aims to verify public statements and media reports.
NATO Stratcom Communications Centre of Excellence
NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
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.
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.
Media LIT
EDx course on media literacy. It helps us understand, analyze and create media.
Media Matters for Pakistan
Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.
Manila Principles on Intermediary Liability
The Manilla Principles on Intermediary Liability define various principles for intermediary companies to follow when operating in democratic and authoritarian environments
Linterna Verde
Linterna Verde do Research on the online public debate based on areas of interest. They seek to make our work accessible, useful and actionable for civil society, the media and government.
Liga Contra el Silencio
We define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.
Learn to Discern (L2D) - Media Literacy Training
IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way.
Malign Creativity: How Gender, Sex, and Lies Are Weaponized Against Women Online
Report striving to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation.
Latam Chequea
Faced with the “infodemic”, the spread of rumors and false content, Latin American checkers join forces to share the information we produce and, by joining forces, provide better information to our communities.
Lead Stories
Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.
Making Sense of the News course
Never before has the need for News Literacy been more urgent.
KnowNews
Easily see if a news site offers credible news or should not be trusted and is un-credible/dodgy.
Sentinel Project early warning system for Kenya Election 2022
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.
Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS)
Knowledge and Rights with Young people through Safer Spaces (KRYSS) - deploys a coordinated network of individuals to amplify positive counter-messages on social media to counter online gender-based violence and disinformation.
ITS Rio Curricula on Information Issues
Course at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio
Journalism Trust Initiative
The Journalism Trust Initiative aims at a healthier information space.
Information Resistance
Information Resistance is a non-governmental project whose main task is to counteract in the information field external threats arising for Ukraine in the main areas: military, economic and energy, as well as in information security.
InformNapalm
InformNapalm is a volunteer initiative emerged as a response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine in March 2014.
Initiative for Media Freedom
The Initiative for Media Freedom (IMF) is a five-year program implemented by Internews and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
International Partnership on Information and Democracy
The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space
Iffy.news
The index compiles news sites with low factual-reporting levels, as determined and documented by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Iffy Quotient
The Iffy Quotient is a metric for how much content from “Iffy” sites has been amplified on Facebook and Twitter.
INFO/tegrity Initative
Provides a framework for NDI's DemTech team to lead and support institutional initiatives countering disinformation and other forms of online manipulation, while strengthening and ensuring the integrity of the information space.
Humble Media Genius
PBS youth media literacy effort. "This is a pilot – a test – with Ruff Ruffman videos looking at the red-hot topic of how kids can and should use media and technology."
hypothes.is
"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."
Image Verification Assistant
We are a joint team of engineers and investigators from CERTH-ITI and Deutsche Welle, trying to build a comprehensive tool for media verification on the Web.
Hamilton 2.0
The Hamilton 2.0 dashboard, a project of the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, provides a summary analysis of the narratives and topics promoted by Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government officials and state-funded media on Twitter, YouTube, state-sponsored news websites, and via official diplomatic statements at the United Nations.
Social Media Hoax Slayer
In the last few years, the Social Media having a wider reach and faster, started polluting human minds by anti-social elements, wrong doers, pranksters etc.
Republic of Georgia's “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections”
The purpose of the “Ethical Principles of Candidates of 28 October 2018 Presidential Elections” was to establish guidelines for presidential candidates during their election campaigns.
GhanaFact
Ghana’s first full-time fact-checking organisation signatory to the International Fact-checking Network (IFCN) Code of Principles.
Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.
Global Network Initative
GNI helps companies respect freedom of expression and privacy rights when faced with government pressure to hand over user data, remove content, or restrict communications.
Cine ce face (Who does what)
”Cine ce face” is an information project through which citizens can get a clear and accurate picture of the roles of various institutional actors in case of an emergency.
Digital Maturity Indicator
The Digital Maturity Indicator (DMI) is a tool to help organisations measure, benchmark and improve their digital maturity across six key areas.
First Draft News resources
These online courses, toolkits and resources are designed to help both journalists and the public build expertise and stay one step ahead of misinformation.
Female Journalists in New Media Report
A report analyzing how gendered, online harassment of female journalists translates in the physical world.
FactsMatterNg
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.
Fakey
This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.
Fato ou Fake
Fato ou Fake is a news literacy project that vetted more than 700 pieces of information ahead of the elections.
