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Big listening

Explore 31 projects in the Big listening category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

"There are tools that monitor public digital conversations. Those that we classify as “big listening” technologies also help us separate signal from noise, identify themes, and better understand how conversations respond to events, influencers and communications strategies. These tools give us insight into the “why” of a conversation. They can also model the networks in which narratives operate.

These tools are often expensive (Crimson Hexagon/Consumer Research) and purpose-built (usually not for social change). They can also be free but come with a significant learning curve (MIT’s Media Cloud)."

\- The Narrative Initiative

31 projects

Digital Democracy 2030

A Japanese civic tech community/project group advancing better democratic practices and social implementation through digital technology and civic participation.

Japan

Albis

Albis is a "news intelligence" tool that scans news across regions and languages to show what the world is covering, what your usual feed misses, and how the "life systems" (energy, food, water, health, information) behind events are shifting.

MonitorMamdani

A website for tracking promises and success of NYC mayor via public free data.

New York City
2026

Disint.ai

disint.ai - a narrative intelligence and social listening platform for YouTube.

Netherlands
https://4cat.nl/ActiveOpen-source

The 4CAT Capture & Analysis Toolkit (4CAT)

4CAT is a research tool that can be used to analyse and process data from online social platforms.

Amsterdam

Eurobarometer

Eurobarometer is the polling instrument used by the European Commission, the European Parliament and other EU institutions and agencies to monitor regularly the state of public opinion in Europe on issues related to the European Union as well as attitudes on subjects of political or social nature.

Europe
1974

Phoenix

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

California
peace, "Peace, justice, and strong institutions"

Automatic Classifiers for Peace (ACfP)

The automatic classifiers for peace group is an open-source community of researchers, organisations and individuals that are interested in aiding social media analysis through the automatic classification of social media discourse.

Europe
2023

Listening Vietnam

Chúng tôi cung cấp đánh giá tổng quan, cụ thể, và hiệu quả, sử dụng social listening tools và là đối tác chiến lược của Viettel Reputa.

Hanoi
2017