The Tor Project

To develop an open security toolkit for journalists, allowing them to avoid digital surveillance by governments and other groups

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

To expand the audience for classical music by offering the symphony experience globally through expanded webcast and mobile content

Aspen Forum for Community Solutions

To launch the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions, which will demonstrate new, effective ways that community stakeholders can engage to solve problems and seize opportunity

Signalnoi.se

To help newsrooms optimize editorial decision making by providing a dashboard that tracks stories through social networks and across competitor sites.

Behavio

To help people and communities make better use of data collected by mobile phones

Recovers.org

To develop a collaborative organizing dashboard for governments, outside organizations and the public to use in disaster response and other situations.

NPR Digital Training for Journalists

To expand digital training of public radio journalists

TurboVote

To support TurboVote, an online platform for registering, finding election information, and voting by mail.

Watchup

To make it easier to find and watch high quality video news through a new iPad app

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.

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

Fantasy Election '12 Game

For development of a fantasy election and civic participation game by MTV