Community crime watch neighborhood portal

To build software to help local law enforcement agencies collaborate with neighborhood crime watch groups

Data Toys

To create several prototypes for data toys: experimental, digitally-enabled devices that allow users to explore data and systems through play

Drone Journalism

To fund research and experimentation into the use of drone vehicles as news and information-gathering tools, to study the ethics of these techniques and to publish case studies and best-practices guides

FOIA Machine

FOIA Machine will aid journalist and private citizens in accessing millions of important governmental documents around the world that are covered by freedom of information laws (which exist in more than 90 countries). 

Geomancer

To create a prototype system to allow journalists to easily combine datasets based on geographic information.

GroundTruth

GroundTruth is a communications platform designed to help journalists, researchers and community organizers establish engagement with people who have valuable expertise via text messages and mobile phones.

Hollaback

To develop a pilot of a mobile application designed to allow individuals to report street harassment.

Kon*Fab

The mission of Kon*Fab is to explore news and information through a more serendipitous discovery.

Open Gender Tracking Project

To build software that will track the gender balance in published news stories

Social media and opinion research tool

For a proof of concept to match news and social sentiment with polling and socioeconomic demographics to create an open public opinion reporting and analysis tool.

The LAMP

To build an online video editor for use in media criticism and education.

The Rashomon Project

To develop a tool for organizing multiple videos recorded at a public event into a single timeline