
Hearken's Engagement Management System
Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.
Fiskkit allows news readers to annotate the news line by line
**Fiskkit** was created to provide a better place for people to **discuss** important **news** topics and to find what information is accurate in every article on the Internet. Fiskkit’s founder, John Pettus, wanted to build a site that promoted logic and civility from commenters and that would use instantaneous reader feedback to help people identify was was true, false, well-reasoned or logically unsound in every news article or opinion piece. Fisking is a blogging word for a line-by-line critique of a news or opinion article and the core of site functionality.


Hearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.

HealthTools gives citizens localised answers to everyday health challenges via SMS and the web to help the mwananchi get the best medical care. Data is from reputable official sources, with additional crowd verification
A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel

As journalists look for different ways to tell stories and rebuild communities, this paper details an action research approach to a unique live journalism event in a public space.

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19