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)
The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)
Since our establishment in 1973, we have been dedicated to reshaping the economic framework by restraining corporate power and championing social equity.
Veeto
Veeto is a civic tech platform that turns small-dollar contributions into verified lobbying actions.
政治獻金數位化 (g0v Campaign Finance)
Crowdsourced project to digitize campaign finance records and detect corruption
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.
Good Jobs First
Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.
Amazon Tracker
Discover How Much the Public is Subsidizing One of the Largest Retailers
Violation Tracker Global
Violation Tracker Global is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct around the world.
Subsidy Tracker
Discover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States
Violation Tracker UK
A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom
Tax Break Tracker
Discover What Localities Lose to Corporate Tax Abatements.
Pardon Tracker
An independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons or commutations for criminal charg...
U.S. Senate Committee On The Budget Whistleblowers form
Whistleblowers play a vital role in helping Congress conduct its constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities. Ranking Member Merkley is interested in information regarding waste, fraud, and a...
OpenSecrets Official Merchandise
Sweaters, t-shirts, hoodies, and ball caps supporting following the money in American politics
Слідство.Інфо (Slidstvo.Info)
Award-winning independent investigative news agency in Ukraine
FOIA request
Create a Freedom of Information request to the United States government
Judge Profiles
Access data on immigration judges, including cases, backlogs, grant rates, and removal statistics
Federal Environmental Web Tracker
EDGI’s website monitoring team is monitoring thousands of federal government webpages to track changes under the Trump administration.
WhatGov
WhatGov makes UK Parliament easy to engage with, with a chat-style interface, debates rewritten in genz slang, and email/mobile push notifications to keep you informed.
Figyusz
An app where you can subscribe to alerts to be notified immediately of updates to monitored administrative and government databases.
Pluralisme
"Pluralisme.fr is a revolutionary solution in the sense that it will help strengthen Democracy and monitor alternative facts"
Accountability Lab Mexico
Accountability Lab Mexico is inspiring a national movement—led by civil society, on the ground, online and through the media—to celebrate, encourage and connect honest public servants.
What the Fed?
AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing
Botswana Watch
Tainan City Council Watchbot
Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.
Tromsø Convention (Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents)
The Tromsø Convention is the first binding international legal instrument to recognize a general right of access to official documents held by public authorities.
Africa Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Network (APMON)
The Africa Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Network (APMON) is a network of non-governmental organizations and coalitions of civil society organizations that monitors the work of and/or regularl...
Civil Society Public Finance Management Course
APMON is launching the “Civil Society- Public Finance Management (PFM) e-Course” for parliamentary monitoring organizations to strengthen their understanding and advocacy on parliaments’ role in PFM,...
Vota Ime
Platforma për monitorimin e Kuvendit
歐噴有限公司 OpenFun Ltd.
歐噴這名字，取自於 Open 這個單字，公司創辦人 Ronny 過去參與許多開放政府（Open Goverement）運動，長期推動開放資料（Open Data），並且使用及貢獻開放原始碼（Open Source）
Dataly (Data Network of the Legislative Yuan)
Parliamentary monitoring site featuring data about meetings, motions, bills, legislators, committees, iVOD, laws, legal provisions, and gazettes
Tainan Sprout
第三屆 Tainan City Council Observation Station
台南市議會觀測站
Migration and Technology Monitor
With a focus on migration, technology, and human rights, we actively interrogate tech experiments on people crossing borders.
Judge and Disclosure Database
For the benefit of researchers, practitioners, and the public we are proud to host a comprehensive and growing structured database of judges and their financial interests.
Landlord Mapper
Landlord database & interactive map to promote property ownership transparency in rental markets
Register rabe UI
Comprehensive database tracking the use of AI systems in the Slovenian public sector.
대전참여자치시민연대
대전참여자치시민연대 예산감시 프로젝트 (Daejeon Citizens' Coalition for Participatory Autonomy Budget Monitoring Project)
Daejeon Citizens' Coalition for Participatory Autonomy Budget Monitoring Project
Govwatch
Rule of Law monitoring platform - Govwatch is a collective map of the state of the rule of law in Greece, made up of reports not just from the Govwatch team, but also from civil society organisations,...
Arthro5a.gr
Κάθε πολίτης έχει το δικαίωμα να αποκτήσει πληροφορίες από δημόσιους οργανισμούς. Σύμφωνα με τον νόμο, οφείλουν να απαντήσουν.
New York Focus
New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains ho...
Plaza Cívica
We empower communities to actively engage with their governments in decision-making through technology, design, communication, and research, driving better public services and enhancing citizen partic...
Jarbas Dashboard
Jarbas, a public panel of [Brasilian] parliamentary reimbursements, where suspicious purchases are easily accessible for public scrutiny.
Tazama
Open source transaction monitoring software
Investigative Reporting Lab (IRL) Macedonia
The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.
Advokc.ng
AdvoKC is a dynamic, youth-led civic technology organization established with a steadfast commitment to fostering transparency, accountability, and positive change in governance.
Congressional systems map
This map...illustrates a [Congress] in a state of dysfunction, with growing dissatisfaction on the part of the public, waning trust in its ability perform, and -- most significantly -- large-scale dis...
Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)
PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and...
The Advocacy People
The Advocacy People support people in advocating for themselves with the NHS, or who are in care, under section in a hospital, secure unit or in the community, among other self-advocacy groups.
Action for Accountability
The Action for Accountability (A4A) project aims to support communities to organize and lead cooperation between our communities and local leaders.