Our Featured Projects

Tech For Palestine

The organisation

Tech For Palestine is a coalition of 5,000+ founders, engineers, product marketers, community builders, investors, and other tech folks working towards Palestinian freedom.

They are operating a number of projects, including building websites for political campaigning, apps for supporting the BDS movement, and analysis on media reporting.

The need

1. The media-bias team worked on evidencing media bias in large US, UK, and EU publications when it came to reporting on the war in Gaza, so as to promote impartial media coverage and uphold journalistic standards.
2. The find-a-protest team aimed at accurately referencing demonstrations and protest camps across the world, so as to inform the public about opportunities for civic engagement and peaceful assembly.
3. The SI4J team built a website for collecting evidence and documenting humanitarian, international, and UK law violations that allow the genocide in Gaza to unfold.

The outcome

1. Using Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models, we explored analysis avenues for evidencing bias across a number of journals, identifying patterns and trends on bias through framing, choice of wording, and omissions of information. This work is ongoing.
2. We supported with research and testing of the protest websites, improving information accuracy.
3. We carried out a security assessment of the SI4J website, discovering critical issues and providing recommendations to improve SI4J’s security posture.

We are also exploring new project ideas that we aim to suggest to the TFP community in the next weeks.

Transparency International France

The organisation

Transparency International France (TIF) is the French chapter of Transparency International, an NGO dedicated to combating corruption worldwide.

The need

IntegrityWatch was a tool created by TIF for promoting transparency and accountability around lobbying in France through facilitating citizen oversight. To better support TIF’s mission, the tool is being updated, with new features and research.

The outcome

We are managing a volunteer team of software developers and data professionals and aiming to support TIF with updating IntegrityWatch, improving its UX, adding new advanced features, and advocating for greater lobbying transparency.

AVID

The organisation

AVID is a national network of visitor groups to immigration detention. They work with locally owned initiatives to end the human suffering caused by detention.

The need

As it grew, the organisation needed a data management solution to keep track of their data. Before, AVID was using a range of tools which were difficult to collate, manage, and draw insights from.

AVID has access to extensive data through groups in its network about the harms of immigration detention: beyond data management, AVID also wanted a tool which would enable them to better track and monitor this evidence for advocacy purposes.

The outcome

We worked with the organisation to identify the tool that would provide CRM functionality while keeping the costs and complexity low.

We chose Baserow, an open source Airtable alternative, to build a database with CRM functionality. The new system integrates with AVID’s website, Stripe, and email suite through Zapier automations.

This solution now manages information on member organisations, funding applications, subscriptions and donations, events, and systemic abuse and failures in immigration detention centres in the UK.

Bleibewerk

The organisation

The advisory services of the Bleibewerk Bonn are aimed at asylum seekers and humanitarian refugees. They provide information and assistance on asylum procedures, family reunion, unemployment benefits, social assistance, asylum seeker benefits law, and residence advice.

The need

There was a need for a case management system to keep track of the data and automate manual processes, and of an analytics tool to provide insights on their casework.

Before, Bleibewerk was using a drive to store their data in Word docs, PDFs, and Excel files, with a lot of the processes being manual. They had started tracking information on their casework in a spreadsheet, but the insights were limited.

The outcome

We built a demo of a case management system with CiviCRM and its CiviCase plugin, to demonstrate the benefits for information storage and management and the automation of casework flows for appointment dates, case progressions, and communication. Satisfied with the demo, Bleibewerk was able to hire a CiviCRM subcontractor for implementing the system.

For analytics, we chose to keep complexity at the lowest by building dashboards on Google Sheets, providing visualisations on the nationalities, sources of referrals, methods of contact, etc.

La Barricade/Nouveau Front Populaire

The organisation

La Barricade is a collective of activists involved with the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP), a coalition of the French Left parties formed to prevent the far-right Rassemblement National from getting to power in the legislative elections of 2024. La Barricade members develop websites, build apps, do research, and create social media campaigns for the purpose of upholding democracy.

The need

In the hours and days following the first round of the elections, the collective La Barricade needed an accurate picture of the results, the candidates, the key districts where campaigning should be prioritised, so as to increase voter turnout.

The outcome

In line with our purpose of increasing civic engagement and political participation, we were among the first to produce the data through data scraping and make it available to the community.