This library of "DemTools" consists of software, approaches, toolkits and guides that DemTech regards as trusted technology-related resources for the democracy community. It is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather a curated list of tools and resources known by DemTech experts to be valuable for enabling democratic actors to conduct their work in a safe, reliable, and cost effective way.
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A service that allows Google users (people with Gmail/Google accounts) to adopt enhanced security setting on their accounts. Users with high visibility and sensitive information stored in their Google accounts should strongly consider enrolling in Advanced Protection. Enrollment is free for any…
A guide to promoting information integrity. This living project provides an outline of what’s being done to address the challenge in key areas and provides a searchable database of the organizations around the world engaged in making the digital landscape safe for democracy.
Mapbox is a company that offers one most-used digital mapping tools in the world, making geo-referenced data more easy to understand across hundreds of thousands of websites and mobile phone applications. Mapbox is a significant contributor to open-source mapping libraries and applications…
Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between over 100 languages.
Tool for scraping content from websites/social media for analysis.
An online media monitoring tool that enables tracking of both social and traditional media platforms.
A set of principles for an open internet and global network designed to empower and improve the digital rights literacy of activists and civil society organizations in the Global South.
An initiative that applies open data principles to the context of elections. The Initiative contains two main components:
- The Election Data Guide outlines which open data principles are most important in elections.
- The Election Data Academy helps civic actors use and analyze…
A tool that allows users to upload documents and extract data in a form that is more easy to organize, analyze, annotate, search, and embed.
Mattermost is the leading open source collaboration platform supporting teamwork with a thriving community.
Create interactive presentations and meetings in real time.
Miro is a collaborative online whiteboard platform designed for remote and distributed teams.
A simple-to-use newsletter sending system for large lists of contacts.
Google tool available through Google Workspace that serves a digital analog to putting stickies on a wall.
Webinar and video conferencing provider that has advanced moderation and webinar recording features. Zoom is among the most popular/utilized webinar platforms. Zoom is a good option for recording video, hosting breakout rooms, allowing for simultaneous translation, and automated closed…
Allows for the use of polls with target groups in real time. The tool is intuitive and user friendly. Accessing it is not hard, just need to access the platform and enter a code. Offers different ways to ask the questions (word cloud, multiple choice, open question, etc).
A simple website builder that doesn't require the ability to write code to design a basic website.
An online service that provides GIS, web mapping, and spatial data science tools to analyze and visualized georeferenced data.
An online media monitoring tool that enables analysis of the billions of conversations happening online.
