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)
¿Quién vigila a los vigilantes?
Este proyecto nace con la intención de ser una campaña de sensibilización para proteger el derecho a la protesta y denunciar la persecución policial en espacios digitales.
Error 404
Sitios web bloqueados en Perú sin orden judicial
Accountability Lab Liberia
Expertisecentrum SPOON
Undervaka.se
Undervaka har tagit tempen på offentlighetsprincipen 2017
Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK)
Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova (FLOSSK) is a non-governmental organization based in Prishtina established in 2009 in order to support, promote and develop free and open source software.
dumeditë
Bëj dhe shfleto kërkesa për te Drejten e Informimit (DI)
Платформа прав людини
ППЛ – зареєстрована у 2016 році неприбуткова організація, яка об’єднала експертів з великим досвідом роботи та високим рівнем експертиз у неурядовому секторі.
FOIA.Wiki
This is a free and collaborative resource on the United States federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Transparency International Slovenia
Borimo se za svet, v katerem oblast, politika, gospodarstvo, civilna družba in dnevno življenje ljudi ne bodo prepleteni s korupcijo.
Sociedad.info
Facilitamos el acceso a contrataciones públicas y beneficiarios reales a través de herramientas de investigación interna y plataformas públicas con el objetivo de incrementar la vigilancia de los recu...
Abrimos.info
En Abrimos.info combinamos nuestra experiencia abriendo datos con amplias capacidades narrativas, investigativas y de desarrollo para crear bases de datos fiables y verificadas que promueven el conoci...
527 Explorer
Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organiz...
Querido Diário
Diários oficiais dos municípios brasileiros em formato aberto para a livre consulta da sociedade civil.
Global ISDS Tracker (Investor-State Dispute Settlement)
This website tells a story of how a little known legal [corporate tribunal] mechanism is enriching fossil fuel corporations with public money, delaying climate action and threatening our future.
Joining the Dots
"Joining the Dots with PEPs" makes available to the public information on public officials’ Financial Declarations, government procurement and contracting, and contracts and tenders of companies in th...
It's Time for Supreme Court Term Limits
Award-winning video by the Brennan Center for Justice on out of touch Supreme Court justices
Eye On Corruption
Eye on Corruption App is a mobile application which allows people to report/submit a corruption related complaint to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC).
WhoFundsThem
WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.
Transition au Tchad
Transition Online est une plateforme visant à renforcer la participation citoyenne au Tchad en facilitant et optimisant l’accès aux informations relatives à la transition.
Parliament Watch (Thailand)
An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.
Illicit Financial Flows Evidence
Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption
TransparencIT
We are a civic tech organization fostering courtroom openness, social justice and citizen engagement in Nigeria.
Digital Rogue Society Experiment Group
Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.
Trial Monitoring of Corruption Cases
The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.
GovServices Monitor
This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.
PoliDashboard
An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
COA Beat Assistant
Custom GPT tool to help journalists in the Philippines to parse long government audit reports for anomalies
Defacto.md
Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși
Lokalni Index Otvorenosti
“Lokalni Index Otvorenosti” je kompozitni indikator koji mjeri stepen otvorenosti lokalnih samouprava prema građanima u Bosni i Hercegovini.
Parlametar BA
Parlametar je alat koji pomoću analize glasanja i transkripata govora zastupnika/ca olakšava praćenje rada Parlamentarne skupštine Bosne i Hercegovine.
Open Council Data
All UK councillors 2016-2023 + by-election info
The Government Says
"The Government Says" make news releases from Government departments easy to find and easy to scan through quickly.
Landlord Tech Watch
Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back
Observatorio Cali Visible (OCV)
Institución de Educación Superior sujeta a control y vigilancia por el Ministerio de Educación Nacional”. Decreto 1075 de 2015 / Resolución 12220 de 2016
Citizen Congress Watch (CCW)
The goals are to oversee the congress, eliminate inadequate legislators and improve congress culture.
Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency
Citizen Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Citizen Intelligence Agency (OSINT) , monitoring key political figures and institutions, provides insights into financial performance, risk metrics, and political trends
Regards Citoyens
Diffusion et Partage de l'Information Politique
Datos Concepción
Right To Know (R2K), Nigeria
The Right To Know (R2K), Nigeria is a dynamic organisation established in 2007 to champion the right to access officially held information at all levels of government public institutions and establish...
Vouliwatch
Parliamentary monitoring and democracy watchdog organisation using civic tech to promote transparency, accountability and citizen engagement.
Marks Out of Tenancy
Join the thousands of renters rating and reviewing their landlord, letting agent and rental properties.
Zašto ne
Pratimo tačnost i dosljednost izjava i ispunjavanje obećanja, mjerimo otvorenost institucija, upoznajemo javnost s političkim procesima i političkim programima, zagovaramo otvorenost i odgovornost!
Onshor
ONSHOR est une association créée en 2019. ONSHOR a pour objectif de stimuler la diffusion de l’information publique.
Derecho al Dato
Todos los ciudadanos tenemos derecho a acceder a la información que tienen los organismos del Estado o las empresas que administran recursos y servicios públicos.
Handlingar
FYI
Alaveteli instance for New Zealand
Dostup do Pravdy (Доступ до правди)
Сайт «Доступ до Правди» працює як уніфікована платформа для надсилання електронних запитів розпорядникам інформації відповідно до Закону “Про доступ до публічної інформації”.
VreauInfo
Romanian Alaveteli instance