Discover the world's largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.
La Constitución es Nuestra
Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile
Social Media Monitoring During the 2020-2021 Elections in Georgia
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.
Social Science One
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.
Putting Civic Online Reason In Civics Class
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
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.
Siberkreasi
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
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)
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.
Institute for Development of Freedom of Information MEMORY AND DISINFORMATION STUDIES
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
UK government toolkit to help support the dissemination of reliable, truthful information that underpins our democracy.
Regional Elections Administration and Political Processes Strengthening Program (REAPPS) I and II in Europe
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.
Rooted in Trust
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.
Rappler Fact Check
Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.
PUSAD
PUSAD is a center for research on religion and democracy, they conduct research on hate speech and political disinformation.
Radar
Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil.
Raskrinkavanje
The Raskrinkavanje.ba platform was launched by the team of the "Why Not" organization, which has many years of experience in fact-checking, through work on checking the accuracy and consistency of statements of public officials, and monitoring the fulfillment of election promises on the Istinomjer platform.
Real 411
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.
PesaYetu
PesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information.
Protecting Tunisian Elections from Digital Threat Roundtable
The roundtable highlights the current state of social media used by political actors ahead of the elections, seeking to understand and foresight how social media will impact the political campaign, and how to better protect the integrity of the campaign.
Reading together
Reliability and Multilingual Global Communities
Pro Truth Pledge
The Pro-Truth Pledge is a project of Intentional Insights, a volunteer-run educational nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to promoting science-based truth-seeking, rational thinking, and wise decision-making.
Project Certeza
First deployed on Election Day in 2018, Project Certeza’s purpose was to identify and deal with false information disseminated, particularly through social networks but also through any other media, that could produce uncertainty or distrust in the citizenry about the electoral authority’s responsibilities as the election is happening.
Project Look Sharp Media Curriculum
Project Look Sharp is a nonprofit, mission-driven outreach program of Ithaca College.
Projeto Credibilidade
The Trust Project develops transparency standards that help people assess the quality and credibility of journalism.
PubliElectoral
PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.
Pressland
Pressland is a first-of-its-kind data-intelligence platform that maps global media production in real time.
PolitiTruth
PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.
polygraph.info
Polygraph.info is a fact-checking website produced by Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Polétika República Dominicana
Polétika República Dominicana is a group of civil society organizations and movements that work in different areas, including: health, housing and habitat, taxation, citizen security, transparency, childhood and adolescence, gender, and municipality.
PEN America’s Online Harassment Field Manual
A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.
Pegabot
a tool that brings more transparency to the use of bots in Brazil.
Observatorio Venezolano de Fake News
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.
Permanent International Media Monitoring Mission on Disinformation about Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora
NGO "Ukraine-2050" is a working to counter disinformation through a media monitoring program.
OwlFactor
OwlFactor automatically calculates the quality of an article based on four factors
Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace
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.
Newschecker
At Newschecker, it is our aim to limit and crackdown the spread of fake news in society.
Open & Disclose
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.
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.
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
Newscheck
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.
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
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.
Nepal Fact Check
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
The News Integrity Initative is a global consortium focused on helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.