Leveraging content creators for mobilizing voters
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Slides from Ana Arevadze (ForSet, Georgia)’s talk about their work with social media influencers to inform and educate Georgian youth on voting and democratic information.
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Beyond websites: How pro-democracy projects reach their audiences
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At this TICTeC gathering, we heard directly from practitioners running civic and pro-democracy tech initiatives from across the world.
They shared the strategies they’re using to reach people where they are, ensure their services remain accessible and relevant, and find new ways to track impact in this changing digital landscape.
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Directions for ‘civic social media’: designing and managing trusted online community spaces
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Recent developments at Facebook and X have shown the need for ‘civic social media’ platforms — thriving and trusted digital meeting spaces that allow communities to safely meet, without economic exploitation or the fear of harassment. What does it take to design and manage such sites?
In this TICTeC 2025 presentation by Eva Oosterlaken (Futurall / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences), hear an overview of civic social media use cases, the implications for public organisations, a series of design principles to actualise them, and a peek into the future by means of a road map.
Data for democracy: a Canadian perspective on how governments can leverage civil society to hold big tech accountable
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The SAMbot project uses machine learning to evaluate abusive content sent to Canadian political candidates during elections. Bill-63, a new draft bill from Canada’s federal government which incorporates an Online Harms Act, may be the key to supporting research into how digital technologies are affecting our social fabric.
This TICTeC 2024 presentation from Sabreena Delhon and
Alex MacIsaac explores Canada’s recent data transparency efforts from the position of researchers at the Samara Centre for Democracy, and considers the potential for the new legislation to make a meaningful contribution to safeguarding Canadian and global democratic norms.
What are the effects of OpenStreetMapping on the mappers themselves?
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Generally, contributing to OSM’s mapping is regarded as a form of volunteer service. However, recent analyses suggest that experience of mapping could be as important as the data contributed.
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What does the African feminist future of civic technology look like?
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Women and sexual minorities are frequent victims of online gender-based violence. But we are yet to fully understand the impact that this has on women across Africa, and on how they access civic technology.
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Impacts of discussion platforms for young people
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Two million young people from Yemen, Libya, Egypt, DRC, Burundi, Mali and China engage in Citizens’ Voice online communities where they share diverse viewpoints in a safe, alternative civic space.
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Being unsocial on social media: the implications for civic and political engagement
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The phenomena of political filtering and unfriending on social media, and their civic and political implications in an international context.
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Identifying checkable claims with machine learning
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Full Fact have developed a tool which can separate sentences containing claims from those that do not. This accelerates the process of fact-checking.
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The impacts of civic tech for elections in the UK
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An overview of the work of Democracy Club, which leads a huge effort in crowdsourcing data every time there’s a UK election. A slide deck.
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Improving civic discourse on Facebook
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From Facebook’s Civic Engagement team, a presentation considering why and how they promote civic discourse among their vast userbase. A slide deck.
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CoFacts: the chatbot that combats misinformation
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CoFacts is a collaborative fact-checking project that combines a chatbot with a hoax database, integrated within LINE, a popular instant messenger app in Asia.
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Exploring sense of community for online citizen engagement
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What value is created through online citizen engagement by using the community psychology Sense of Community theory to examine the behavioural aspects of eParticipation?
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Impacts and challenges of civic tech experiments in India
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Venkatesh Kannaiah speaks about Civic Tech experiments in India, including I Change My City and I Paid A Bribe.
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It starts with a click
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Civics through the lens of efficacy. What can individuals do to influence their communities, their societies and their nations?
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