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Technology Guides
Data Analytics for Social Media Monitoring
This guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks. By sharing lessons learned and best practices from across our global network, the guide empowers monitors to make democracy work online by helping them:
• Collaborate with local, national, or international partners;
• Understand different methods of data collection;
• Make the best use of mapping and data visualization;
• Analyze the online ecosystem;
• Detect malicious or manipulated content and its source;
• Understand available tools for all aspects of social media monitoring; and
• Know how to respond with data, methods, research, and more through social media.
Description Updated: Jun 24, 2022
Democratic Principles for the Information Space
The National Democratic Institute, in collaboration with members of the Design 4 Democracy Steering Committee, has developed this Statement of Principles in their shared commitment that technology platforms and products help build a more just and democratic world, and to bring together the concerns of the democracy community for action to these platforms.
Description Updated: Jun 22, 2022
Info/tegrity
Within NDI’s Democracy and Technology team (DemTech), the Info/tegrity initiative provides a framework to lead and support institutional initiatives countering disinformation and other forms of online manipulation, while strengthening the integrity of the information space. Through Info/tegrity, NDI has developed regional networks among civic technology and civil society organizations in Asia, Africa, Eurasia, and Latin America to exchange information, tools, and best practices.
Description Updated: Jun 22, 2022
Cybersecurity Handbook for Parliaments
The Handbook is an open-source resource designed to help parliaments develop an understandable and implementable cybersecurity plan. It includes explanations of key security topics that parliaments and their staff should be aware of, essential strategies and recommended tools to limit risk, and tips and links to additional resources that can help a parliament implement such recommendations. The Handbook was produced by NDI and the House Democracy Partnership (HDP)
Description Updated: Jun 17, 2022
Practical Cybersecurity for Organizations Online Course
NDI's Practical Cybersecurity for Organizations Online Course provides civil society organizations, political parties, and parliaments a unique online course opportunity to develop an understandable and implementable cybersecurity plan. The course, built off the material in NDI's Cybersecurity Handbooks, includes explanations of key security topics that these organizations their staff should be aware of, essential strategies and recommended tools to limit risk, and tips and links to additional resources that can help these groups implement such recommendations. Certificates are available for successful completion of the course and development of a cybersecurity plan.
Description Updated: Nov 19, 2021
Cybersecurity Handbook for Political Parties
The Handbook is an open-source resource designed to help political parties develop an understandable and implementable cybersecurity plan. It includes explanations of key security topics that parties and their staff should be aware of, essential strategies and recommended tools to limit risk, and tips and links to additional resources that can help a party implement such recommendations. The Handbook material is also available as an online course.
Description Updated: Nov 19, 2021
Cybersecurity Handbook for Civil Society Organizations
The Handbook is an open-source resource designed to help civil society organizations develop an understandable and implementable cybersecurity plan. It includes explanations of key security topics that organizations and their staff should be aware of, essential strategies and recommended tools to limit risk, and tips and links to additional resources that can help an organization implement such recommendations. The Handbook material is also available as an online course.
Description Updated: Nov 19, 2021
Countering Disinformation Guide
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.
Description Updated: Nov 16, 2021
Open Internet Democracy Initiative
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.
Description Updated: Aug 31, 2021
Open Election Data Initiative
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 available data.
Description Updated: Aug 31, 2021