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)
Right to Know
Alaveteli instance for Australia
PidaLa.info
Somos el siguiente nivel en acceso a la información pública
InfoLib
An iLab Liberia project, in conjunction with mySociety, powered by Alaveteli
Digital Rating: отчёты о прозрачности компаний в России
Эксперты проекта Digital Rating исследовали политики и практики популярных веб-сервисов Рунета по раскрытию данных взаимодействия с госорганами, а также соблюдения прав граждан на свободу информации и...
Gobierto Presupuestos Municipales
Consulta, analiza y compara los presupuestos municipales de España
Moving from reflection to action: Guide on transparency and accountability for philanthropic organizations
Download our free guide on Transparency and Accountability for Philanthropic Organisations
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.
Be šešėlio
An opportunity for every conscious member of society to contribute to the elimination of the shadow economy.
S.T.I.R.N.A
"S.T.I.R.NA" is an initiative aimed at providing information about media owners and ad spending in a simple and convenient manner.
DataIgualdad
Revisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina
Hotel Oligarch
Know where you spend your money - mapping politically exposed hotel & restaurant owners
전국 공보 지도 (National Public Information Map)
Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.
Brennan Center for Justice
The Brennan Center is a nonpartisan law and policy institute, striving to uphold the values of democracy.
Elker
Elker is an anonymous reporting platform that allows people to speak up about workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.
tlab پایگاه شفافیت ایران
“Transparency Lab” (tlab) is a project that aims to map existing policy and legislation in relation to transparency, corruption and accountability in Iran; to assess their strengths and weaknesses and...
Ubunge
Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Ass...
Metamorphosis Foundation
Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government t...
Žinau, ką renku
Žinau, ką renku“ – tai nešališkas politikos stebėsenos tinklas, kuriame dalyvauja jauni žmonės iš įvairių Lietuvos miestų ir miestelių.
manoSeimas
"„ManoSeimas.lt“ („My Parliament“) is a user-friendly online tool dedicated to making the country´s political scene more transparent and understandable." - WSA Global
iFollow The Money
A Network Of Grassroots Citizens Dedicated To Tracking Government And International Aid Spending.
OCCRP Aleph
The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.
Queremosdatos.co
Todos los ciudadanos tienen el derecho a acceder a la información que tiene los organismos y autoridades públicas. Por ley, deben responder. (Alaveteli instance for Colombia)
Obljuba dela dolg
Promise Made = Debt Unpaid. First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.
Lestvica Transparentnosti
In cooperation with the Organization for a Participatory Society and PIC - Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs, we prepared a survey on the transparency of Slovenian municipalities.
Open Supply Hub
Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.
Danes je nov dan
Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
Agami
Agami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India
CivicDataLab
We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design
Red Ciudadana
Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.
Airtable of public information for transparency purposes
An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects
Bobbele
Search over 120'000 companies to see their controversies and hierarchies! Random Company
NYC OpenRecords
Welcome to NYC Government’s home for filing Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.
K-Monitor
We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.
Govspend.ng
While the Open Treasury portal hosts all federal daily treasury reports, GOVSPEND.NG, a platform powered by BudgIT, simplifies the treasury report for citizens and Civil Society Organizations to acces...
The People’s Database for Community-Based Police Accountability
A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative
Mapping NGOs Repairs
Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and f...
Penplusbytes
Established on the 18th of July 2001, Penplusbytes is a not-for-profit organization driving change through innovations in three key areas: using new digital technologies to enable good governance and...
Fundacion Para el Desarrollo de la Libertad Ciudadana
Transparency International Panama
Paradigm Leadership Support Initiative (PLSI)
We believe public accountability is possible ONLY with a vigilant and involved citizenry
Transparency International Moldova
Transparency International chapter
The Lebanese Transparency Association
Transparency International Lebanon
Open Secrets
Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU)
The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of over 200 public interest groups and trade unions concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate...
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
CREW is a leading ethics watchdog organization that takes relentless legal and investigative actions holding people in power to account.
Indonesian Parliamentary Center (IPC)
Menjadi Repository Parlemen Indonesia, itu cita-cita awal para pendiri lembaga ini. Karena itulah, diberi nama Indonesian Parliamentary Center (IPC). Harapannya, repository dihasilkan dari kajian terk...
Congresso em Foco
Senado aprova acordo de cooperação entre brasil em questões relacionadas à defesa damares alves e tarcísio de freitas vão se filiar ao republicanos neta de arraes se filia ao solidariedade e lula pode...
Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (IDIS - Viitorul)
În calitate de think tank independent, IDIS combină cercetarea socială, politică și economică cu componente solide de advocacy
Transparency International Slovakia
Transparency International chapter
Chile Transparente
Presenting the Chilean chapter of Transparency International promoting integrity and anti‑corruption across public, private and civic sectors in Chile
Transparency International Armenia
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