Watchdogging and transparency
Technologies that seek to provide greater visibility to the activities of governments, corporations, or individuals in power and allow others to monitor them.
Suggested reading:
- Technology is not a quick fix solution for corruption, by Melissa Tsungai Zisengwe. She writes from a South African perspective but the takeaways are broadly applicable to the whole genre of anti-corruption tech. (2020)
- In The Future of Promise Tracking Jordan Urban and Adam Feldman, co-founders of govtracker.co.uk, explain what promise trackers are and how to build a meaningful one. (2018)
- Which Promises Actually Matter? Election Pledge Centrality and Promissory Representation is a published research paper that finds that simply evaluating elected officials on the fulfillment of every miscellaneous promise made while campaigning isn’t helpful, because voters weigh certain promises as more central to the campaign than others. The authors suggest weighting promise centrality when evaluating the campaign’s fidelity. By Jonathan Mellon, Christopher Prosser, Jordan Urban, and Adam Feldman. (2018)
- Jameela Raymond of Transparency International discusses the Impacts of anti-corruption pledge trackers at The Impacts of Civic Tech Conference. (2018)
MonitorMamdani
A website for tracking promises and success of NYC mayor via public free data.
Psst.org
Psst is a non-partisan, non-profit public service that helps people bring forward public interest information.
National Whistleblower Center (NWC)
For 35 years, the National Whistleblower Center has been a frontline defender of those brave enough to expose corruption, fraud, and abuse.
Safe
The Safe software created by Psst is a secure digital safe haven for information.
Whistleblower-Netzwerk
Für besseren Whistleblowerschutz
Solutions Progress Report
The goal of this site is to provide progress updates on key issues and initiatives of Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker's administration.
The AI Whistleblower Initiative (AIWI)
Supporting whistleblowers in AI
The Signals Network
The Signals Network supports whistleblowers to hold powerful interests to account all over the world.
AI Whistleblower Defense Grants
To address the financial barriers to whistleblowing, we’ve created a comprehensive resource and guide identifying three vetted organizations that provide pro bono legal counsel and financial grants to...
AI Safety Whistleblower Legal Defense Fund
We provide grants to cover legal expenses related to AI safety whistleblowing, prioritizing cases about the safety of frontier AI systems, along with pro bono legal advice and help finding other suppo...
Open Council Network
We track council meetings and decisions, turning them into clear, concise summaries and weekly emails.
Open Budget Survey
First launched in 2006, the Open Budget Survey is the world’s only independent, comparative, and fact-based research instrument to measure these essential aspects of governance and accountability: Par...
Sudan Witness
Sudan Witness was launched in April 2023, and monitors, analyses, verifies, and archives information pertaining to human rights interferences and conflict incidents in Sudan’s current conflict.
PropagandaWatch
Monitoring pro-Russian propaganda in Georgia
The Common News
The Common makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.
the Dearly Departed Dataset Graveyard
This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025.
Jmail
Luke Igel and Riley Walz have launched a Gmail-like interface where you can browse Epstein's emails (some of which were released by Congress).
Revolving Door Project (RDP)
RDP scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest.
EDIA
EDIA es un proyecto de la Fundación Vía Libre cuyo objetivo es involucrar a más personas en la evaluación de tecnologías de inteligencia artificial como son los modelos de lenguaje (por ejemplo, ChatG...
The Authoritarian Stack
This project maps the "Authoritarian Stack"—a network of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms.
Who funds the Conservative party?
The Conservative Party has accepted more than £27 million in donations since the 2019 elections, according to the Electoral Commission. Find out how much each industry has donated and what companies a...
Labour Reforms
The 2024 King's Speech announced 40 key policies designed to put Britain back on track. The changes aren't clear yet. What's happening to the Labour reforms? We track the bills announced in the King'...
Panopticon
A new social media platform in civic tech
Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search
This is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search auto-generated transcripts of Council meetings for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.
Engagic
City council meeting scraping and agenda packet summarization, for the whole country
Karton revolucija
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Nonprofit Explorer
Browse millions of annual returns filed by tax-exempt organizations with ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer. See details like executive compensation, revenue, expenses and more.
Bihus.Info
Bihus.Info – команда журналістів, юристів, айтішників і активістів, що завдають змін.
Evidence and Methods Lab
We are a technology-driven initiative that strives to make information more accessible and foster accountability in Africa’s public sector.
BIMI
Chat with Nigeria's Fiscal and Public Finance Data Platform with Intelligence
Promise Tracker (Mzalendo)
The Promise Tracker tracks the progress of the ruling party, Kenya Kwanza, in actualizing its pledges as contained in the party manifesto from 13th September 2022 when President William Ruto was sworn...
Ojo a las sanciones
Encuentra rápidamente si la empresa que vas a contratar está en alguna base de datos de sanciones.
Diários do Clima
O Diários do Clima filtra informações dos diários oficiais municipais para você encontrar o que precisa mais fácil e rapidamente
Congress Alerts
Congress Alerts is a lightweight SMS service that texts U.S. constituents a concise, human-readable digest of how their Representative and two Senators voted - no apps, log-ins, or jargon required.
Bron
Doorzoek meer dan 2 miljoen overheidsdocumenten op één plek.
Centre for Democracy & Development (CDD-West Africa)
CoST Infrastructure Transparency Initiative
CoST, the Infrastructure Transparency Initiative (CoST) is one of the leading global non-profits improving transparency, participation and accountability in infrastructure to deliver quality infrastru...
+integridad
Nuestra misión es consolidar los temas de Gobierno Abierto y anticorrupción en la agenda pública de nuestro estado.
Volt Data Lab
O Volt Data Lab é uma organização que dá suporte ao jornalismo há mais de 10 anos, oferecendo consultoria, análise e serviços de tecnologia e jornalismo de dados para veículos de notícias e ONGs de to...
Legislatech
O Legislatech é uma ferramenta de clipping de órgãos públicos e da imprensa, com monitoramento em tempo real
Transparentes
Transparentes es una invitación a tomar el mando y construir un espacio donde la transparencia y la ciudadanía sean parte de cada jugada de la sociedad civil.
UWhatGov
View parliamentary debates formatted like your favourite chat app.
Ripoti Africa
RIPOTI is a platform developed by Paradigm Initiative to enable individuals, CSOs, human rights defenders, advocates, activists, and the general public to report and collaboratively address African di...
Observatório Privacidade
Privacidade e Proteção de Dados no Congresso Nacional
Freedom Forum
Freedom Forum is a non-governmental organization, working for institutionalization of democracy, protection and promotion of human rights, press freedom, freedom of expression and right to information...
Contratados.org
Contratados.org allows workers to share their experiences and write reviews about their recruiters and employers in order to make the recruitment process transparent and generate a mechanism for accou...
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Jonmat
Verified restaurant map based on the history of congressional donations (국회의원 후원금사용내역을 기반으로 한 검증된 맛집지도)
Minesweeper Thailand
Targeting Senators from the NCPO network
Big Tech M&A Database
The Big Tech tracker for mergers and acquisitions provides an overview of companies that have been acquired by Big Tech (2019-2025). Search for a merger!