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Accessible databases of civic and media archives.

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Sugestões da população para a Assembleia Nacional Constituinte de 1988
www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/constituicao-dos-sonhos-en

Sugestões da população para a Assembleia Nacional Constituinte de 1988

Learn about the history of the 72,000 letters sent by citizens to the Brazilian Constitutional Convention and how to consult them, and the Sistema de Apoio Informático à Constituinte (SAIC)

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷
since 1986
Archives, Constitutions, Crowdsourcing
The Mappyist Hour archives
projectgeospatial.org/partner-content/the-mappyist-hour

The Mappyist Hour archives

Archived podcast on everything geospatial. Original air dates 2017 - 2021.

Virginia
since 2025
Archives, Podcasts, Learn about civic tech
New Yorker Magazine Archive
newyorker.com/archive

New Yorker Magazine Archive

For the first time, every cover, article, and issue in the magazine’s hundred-year history can be enjoyed on newyorker.com.

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2025
Archives, Media, Journalism
Perma.cc
perma.cc

Perma.cc

Websites change. Perma Links don’t.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Archives, General purpose open source tools
Archive of Data.gov
source.coop/harvard-lil/gov-data

Archive of Data.gov

This repository is maintained by the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab as part of our project to preserve U.S. federal public data.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Civic data, Open civic data, Open government data
Russian Independent Media Archive
rima.media

Russian Independent Media Archive

We preserve the work of independent journalists in Russia – their reporting over the past twenty years and the stories they continue to tell today.

United States of America 🇺🇸
Archives, Media, Journalism
Internet Archive Democracy's Library
archive.org/details/democracys-library

Internet Archive Democracy's Library

Freely Accessible Government Data, Documents, Records, and Research

San Francisco
Archives, Govtech, Public records
Government Websites of the World (GWOW)
webservices.archive.org/wgw

Government Websites of the World (GWOW)

The GWOW project’s goal is to preserve the current government websites of every country in the world to ensure perpetual access to online government information for an informed citizenry and democrati...

San Francisco
Archives, Govtech
MyParliament
myparliament.ca

MyParliament

My Parliament makes politics transparent, social, and accessible. Track bills, follow representatives, and join the conversation.

Canada 🇨🇦
Parliamentary and legislative tech, Public engagement with parliaments and legislatures, Find your representatives
Allmaps
allmaps.org

Allmaps

Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to curate, georeference and explore collections of digitized maps.

Mapping, Mapping tools, Archives
history
Cultural Memory Lab
grayarea.org/initiative/cultural-memory-lab

Cultural Memory Lab

An incubator empowering community-based archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural organizations to explore decentralized strategies for preserving collective memory.

435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California
since 2025
Incubators, Archives, Decentralization
culture
Filecoin Foundation
fil.org

Filecoin Foundation

Our mission is to preserve humanity’s most important information

Blockchain, Funders & donors, Archives
Auto Archiver
github.com/bellingcat/auto-archiver

Auto Archiver

Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.

since 2022
General purpose open source tools, Research tools, Archives
Stichting Internet Archive / Internet Archive Europe
stichtinginternetarchive.nl

Stichting Internet Archive / Internet Archive Europe

Internet Archive Europe is a project by the Dutch non-profit research library Stichting Internet Archive. It is building collections and tools to bring them to life.

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱
Archives, Artificial Intelligence, Open knowledge
culture
The National Archives UK
nationalarchives.gov.uk

The National Archives UK

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Archives, Govtech
United Kingdom (government)
UK Government Web Archive
nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive

UK Government Web Archive

We capture, preserve and make accessible UK central government information published on the web. The Web Archive includes videos, tweets, images and websites dating from 1996 to the present day.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
since 1996
Archives, Govtech
TheyWorkForYou Votes
votes.theyworkforyou.com

TheyWorkForYou Votes

Votes in the UK’s Parliaments determine the laws that we all live by, and we want the information about who voted for what to be as accurate, easy to use and easy to understand as possible.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
since 2025
Parliamentary and legislative tech, Participatory democracy, Government transparency
Hong Kong Accountability Archive
hkaccountability.org

Hong Kong Accountability Archive

Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable, and secure database that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong
Archives, Open justice, Advocacy tech
Hong Kong protests, police violence
Global Nonviolent Action Database
nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu

Global Nonviolent Action Database

Powering Learning about Nonviolent Action. Last updated 2011.

Swarthmore College
Advocacy tech, Archives, Organize campaigns
Political Party Database Project
politicalpartydb.org

Political Party Database Project

The Political Party Database Project is a cross-national initiative to establish and update an online public database as a source for key information about political party organizations. Last updated...

since 2017
Political parties, Archives, Civic data
RestoredCDC.org
restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov

RestoredCDC.org

An archival version of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website as of January 6, 2025

United States of America 🇺🇸
since 2025
Govtech, Archives
health, Project 2025
Migration and Technology Monitor
migrationtechmonitor.com

Migration and Technology Monitor

With a focus on migration, technology, and human rights, we actively interrogate tech experiments on people crossing borders.

Watchdogging and transparency, Digital security and privacy, Digital rights
surveillance, immigration
[Legal] Reporters Database
free.law/projects/reporters-db

[Legal] Reporters Database

Our Reporters Database is a Python library or JSON file that provides structured information about nearly every American legal reporter.

Oakland, California
Journalism, Legal tech, Civic data
Courts Database
free.law/projects/courts-db

Courts Database

Our Courts Database is a Python library or JSON file that provides structured information about nearly every American court, past or present.

Oakland, California
Archives, Civic data, Legal tech
AMBER
amberlink.org

AMBER

Amber is a tool for blogs & websites to keep linked content accessible

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA
Open knowledge, Archives
extensions
Flickr Foundation
flickr.org

Flickr Foundation

Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years from now and still have access to photos shared by millions of people on Flickr…

Archives, Cameras
culture
gotham-grabber
github.com/freedomofpress/gotham-grabber

gotham-grabber

gotham-grabber is a set of scripts written to archive journalism published on a set of now-defunct news sites

since 2017
Archives, Journalism
Gobernantes.info
gobernantes.info

Gobernantes.info

Datos verificados de personas candidatas y gobernantes para combatir la desinformación y promover la democracia en América Latina.

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Civic data, Archives
Newsbank
newsbank.com/publishers/solutions/digital-historical-news-archives

Newsbank

Providing easy access to the world's largest repository of reliable information

since 1972
Journalism, Archives, Civic data
Hansard
hansard.parliament.uk

Hansard

The official report of all Parliamentary debates. Find Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back over 200 years.

London
since 2018
Parliamentary and legislative tech, Archives, Civic data
Voteview
voteview.com

Voteview

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideolog...

Los Angeles, CA
since 1989
Civic data, Parliamentary and legislative tech, Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
8M LATAM
8mlatam.com

8M LATAM

El objetivo es realizar un archivo fotográfico que muestre la realidad de la extensión del movimiento feminista, incluyendo la variedad de experiencias, testimonios y emociones que plasma el 8M en nos...

Latin America
since 2024
Crowdsourcing, Advocacy tech, Specific campaigns
Gender Equality, women
Open Terms Archive
opentermsarchive.org

Open Terms Archive

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

France 🇫🇷
since 2020
Archives, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Digital security and privacy
SHARE MONITORING
monitoring.labs.rs

SHARE MONITORING

Monitoring digital rights violations and online violations in Serbia.

Serbia (Srbija) 🇷🇸
Ethical tech and responsible tech, Archives, Digital security and privacy
Open Council Data
opencouncildata.co.uk

Open Council Data

All UK councillors 2016-2023 + by-election info

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Archives, Civic data, Watchdogging and transparency
The Government Says
thegovernmentsays.com

The Government Says

"The Government Says" make news releases from Government departments easy to find and easy to scan through quickly.

since 2013
Archives, Watchdogging and transparency, Government transparency
PROTESTORY!
protestory.de

PROTESTORY!

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪
Organize campaigns, Advocacy tech, Archives
youth
Trump Trials Clearinghouse
justsecurity.org/88175/trump-trials-clearinghouse

Trump Trials Clearinghouse

To help readers parse through these complex legal developments, we have centralized information on Trump’s major cases in the most comprehensive clearinghouse of its kind.

New York University
since 2023
Watchdogging and transparency, Media, Archives
corruption
OpenArchive
open-archive.org

OpenArchive

OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence. We conduct co-research, build tools, and create guides that advance human rights every day.

Archives, Media, Open-source intelligence (OSINT)
Mob Data Thailand
mobdatathailand.org/about

Mob Data Thailand

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประ...

Bangkok, Thailand
Crowdsourcing, Archives, Direct action
ParlGov
parlgov.org

ParlGov

ParlGov is a data infrastructure for political science. It contains information about parties, elections and cabinets for all EU and most OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today.

Mannheim
Civic data, Archives, Voting and elections
defensoresdelademocracia.mx/#chart

Defensores de la Democracia

Antes de la creación de este archivo viviente, no había ningún lugar que encontrara, agregara, clasificara y resguardara los trabajos de los periodistas asesinados en México.

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico
Archives, Media, Journalism
free speech
Protestlandschaft Deutschland
protestdata.eu

Protestlandschaft Deutschland

Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.

Berlin
Advocacy tech, Direct action, Civic maps
PoliFLW
openstate.eu/en/projects-tools-data/elections/nederlands-poliflw

PoliFLW

Local politics is getting less attention in the media, due to budget cuts. Meanwhile Dutch municipalities are getting more responsibilities due to decentralisations. With PoliFLW journalists and other...

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱
Media, Archives, Journalism
local
LocalView
localview.net

LocalView

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the...

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
since 2023
Archives, Communicating with the people, Participatory democracy
YouTube
The People’s Database for Community-Based Police Accountability
berkeleycopwatch.org/people-s-database

The People’s Database for Community-Based Police Accountability

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

Berkeley, CA
Open justice, Watchdogging and transparency, Crowdsourcing
criminal justice
Junkipedia
junkipedia.org

Junkipedia

Junkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how t...

Washington, DC
Media, Fight disinformation, Archives
DCinbox
dcinbox.com

DCinbox

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

Hoboken
since 2009
Archives, Parliamentary and legislative tech, Civic data
GovInfo
govinfo.gov

GovInfo

GovInfo is free U.S. Government information for all. GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.

Capitol Hill
since 2016
Govtech, Archives, Civic data
United States (federal government)
Congressional Directory
govinfo.gov/app/collection/CDIR

Congressional Directory

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are availabl...

Washington, DC
since 2023
Govtech, Parliamentary and legislative tech, Archives
United States (federal government)
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