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Open edX
OpenEdX is an open-source learning management system (LMS). The platform allows administrators to create digital courses for online and remote learning. NDI hosts one instance of Open edX, but the instance can support multiple custom-branded "micro-sites." Micro-sites can be created at the request of NDI programs or partners for an initial cost, but long-term hosting is offered at no-additional cost. Alternatively, NDI programs and partners can make use of the ed.ndi.org micro-site to create courses at no cost.
Description Updated: Aug 05, 2024
Twine
Twine is a free and open-source platform for making interactive fiction games, much like a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story, or practice quizzes. Twine doesn't require you to write any code, and it publishes directly to HTML so you can post your game almost anywhere. NDI hosts Twine for partners through its DemCloud cloud-hosting service.
Description Updated: Jul 18, 2024
Google Groups
Google Groups is a service from Google that provides a platform for creating and managing online and email-based groups. It facilitates communication and collaboration among group members, making it easier to share information, organize events, and work on projects together. Google Groups are not designed for secure communication.
Description Updated: Jul 18, 2024
Digital Organizing SOS Stories of Security
In this single player, mobile-friendly online game, you play the role of a cybersecurity trainer to help leaders of civil society organizations more safely and effectively organize virtual workshops, fundraise online, use social media, and collect and store data.
Developed by NDI, Digital Organizing SOS is build on the Twine platform, and is currently translated into English, Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian, Polish, and Serbian.
Description Updated: Dec 06, 2023
KoboToolbox
KoboToolbox is a software platform for collecting and managing data in challenging environments. KoboToolbox helps organizations to conduct surveys, monitor and evaluate their projects, and generate evidence for their advocacy and organizing activities. KoboToolbox is designed to work both online and offline, which makes it suitable for places with low internet or cellular network penetration. KoboToolbox also supports data security, data quality, data analysis, and data visualization features. KoboToolbox is an open source and free software that can be customized and adapted to different contexts and needs.
Description Updated: Nov 01, 2023
Your Priorities
Your Priorities is a tool for citizen engagement designed to gather feedback on a variety of different topics. It allows users to post and vote on different ideas, and can be used in a variety of ways from identifying problems for the government to fix, to brainstorming ideas for new policies and initiatives to implement. The tool can be used by a government, political party, or civil society organization to gather citizen feedback and facilitate discussion and deliberation on policy issues.
Description Updated: Mar 25, 2023
Decidim
Decidim is an open-source citizen participation platform that allows governments to empower people to participate in the policy process. The platform was first used in Barcelona and has since been utilized in over 30 countries. Decidim is a complex platform with a wide variety of features. It can be configured to allow citizens to suggest policy proposals, comment on pending legislation, vote on implementing initiatives. It can also be used to host meetings, conduct surveys, facilitate participatory budgeting processes, map issues, and organize citizen assemblies.
Description Updated: Mar 25, 2023
Polis
Polis is a platform for facilitating discourse on an issue. It was designed to help overcome disagreements and find consensus by mapping out the positions of different groups and finding common ground while highlighting the main areas of dissent. Users go through and agree or disagree with a series of statements, with the ability to submit their own statements afterwards for others to agree or disagree with. The platform then uses artificial intelligence to analyze users and organize them into several main groups based on their responses, and it identifies the questions on which there was the most agreement or disagreement. Polis is ideal for governments or civic organizations looking to facilitate discussion and gather information about citizens' views on a policy or issue is a constructive way. It has also been used as a precursor to in-person policy discussions by allowing facilitators beforehand to identify the main groups and factions around an issue. The tool is easy to set up without any technical expertise and new “conversations” can be created for free on the https://pol.is website. Conversations can then be embedded on other websites if desired.
Description Updated: Mar 25, 2023
ODK Collect
ODK Collect is an Android data collection app used for collecting structured data. The app uses an open data standard which means it can be used with various databases (for example ODK, KoboToolbox, or Apollo). Administrators set up a form or questionnaire in the database using question types such as multiple-choice, open-ended, image, or geolocation. Users then download the app, connect with the database by inputting their credentials and database’s url, and are then able to download copies of the forms from the database. They can then fill these forms out, edit them, and when completed submit them back to the database where they can be counted and analyzed.
Description Updated: Mar 24, 2023
Bitwarden
Bitwarden is a digital password manager. Such systems allow you to set up secure vaults to store long, unique passwords for all your accounts without needing to remember them each individually. If properly secured and used, this allows individuals and organizations to enhance their account security by using strong passwords overall. Bitwarden is an open-source tool that has a good free-tier, but also offers paid plans with additional features for experienced users and teams/organizations.
Description Updated: Mar 24, 2023