Connecting patterns
across interconnected
crises.
Plus is an alliance operating at the intersection of civic technology, media development, systems thinking, and democratic resilience. We study how information, institutions, and infrastructure fail together — and we build the blueprints to make them work.
A method for
working across systems.
Four movements that structure how Plus reads the world and intervenes in it.
Six initiatives.
One shared method.
Hub
The connective infrastructure of the alliance.
Civic Signal
Long-form investigation into information integrity.
iLab
An applied studio for civic infrastructure.
Academy
Curricula for practitioners at the seams.
Global Forensics Network
Distributed open-source forensic research.
News Creators
Format-native independent journalism.
The crises are
connected.
Plus works across five interlinked domains where democratic systems are under pressure. None can be addressed in isolation.
An alliance,
not an organization.
Plus is composed of constituent organizations, regional networks, long-term partners, and independent collaborators. The whole moves faster than any part.
The alliance in practice.
Recent thinking.
Plus was formed to work at the seams — where information systems, civic institutions, and democratic infrastructure meet, strain, and sometimes fail. We are practitioners, researchers, technologists, and journalists organized as a single alliance.
Questions.
Plus is an alliance of organizations working across civic technology, media, forensic research, and democratic infrastructure. We operate as a single coordinated body rather than a network of siloed projects.