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)
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GovTrack Legislator Misconduct Database
This page lists 479 instances of alleged and actual misconduct by legislators in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present.
info.nodes
attivismo e giornalismo contro corruzione e ingiustizie
Open Parliament TV
We make parliamentary debates more transparent and accessible
PromiseTracker (Code for Africa)
Promise Tracker is a tool designed to help journalists and civil society watchdogs track campaign/promises/pledges by government officials
Panama Papers
The Panama Papers is an unprecedented investigation that reveals the offshore links of some of the globe’s most prominent figures.
afriLEAKS
Securely share information with Africa's finest journalists BLOW THE WHISTLE
Lighthouse Reports
Pioneering Collaborative Journalism
Fundación Multitudes
Ampliamos los espacios de participación ciudadana en la toma de decisiones.
Watchdog
Watchdog is a multidisciplinary team of factcheckers, journalists, researchers and software engineers. We hunt hoaxes and misinformation, investigate matters of public welfare, and build software tool...
PubliElectoral
PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.
Polétika República Dominicana
Polétika República Dominicana is a group of civil society organizations and movements that work in different areas, including: health, housing and habitat, taxation, citizen security, transparency, ch...
Open & Disclose
Open & Disclose aims to provide a platform for media organisations, journalists, columnists, and commentators to make public their interests, with the aim of strengthening institutional credibility, a...
Media Matters for Pakistan
Media Matters for Pakistan is a web based initiative, designed to act as an informal watchdog over the mainstream media in Pakistan.
Eltették
An interactive map to show the billions worth of properties that went from state-owned to privately owned in recent years, together with K Monitor
Detektor Media
Media Detector is a non-governmental organization established by Ukrainian journalists in January 2004.
Open Gov Week
This year, we want to do a bit more. In addition to events, we’re collecting and sharing how the open government movement – even in challenging times – is aligned and how our stories can be a bright s...
Ad Observer
Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our bro...
Actkathon
Anti-Corruption Virtual Hackathon 2021 in Thailand
Oxpeckers Center for Investigative Environmental Journalism
Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates
Fiquem Sabendo
Fiquem Sabendo é uma organização sem fins lucrativos especializada noacesso a informações públicas
@LeadershipFlack
This bot is a project of @DemandProgress that tweets a round up of House and Senate leadership press releases.
Ad Observatory
Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads
Spotlight on Corruption
Spotlight on Corruption works to end corruption within the UK and wherever the UK has influence · We track how the UK enforces its anti-corruption laws
@EveryCRSReport
Twitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.
Gong
Gong is a civic megaphone that hinders corruption and builds a more democratic, just and equal society.
Open State Foundation
open data, transparent society
Parliamentary Network Africa
Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.
Act Hub Africa
Act Hub Africa is a civic-tech NGO that works to promote good governance, democracy, ensure openness and transparency in the local governments by making their fiscal d...
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Council Data Project
Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.
Xnet Institute For Democratic Digitalisation
An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy
EU Whistleblowing Monitor
The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the...
Whistleblowing International Network (WIN)
WIN connects and strengthens civil society organisations that defend and support whistleblowers.
European Network of Corporate Observatories (ENCO)
ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.
Coalición ProAcceso
Individuos que apoyan las actividades estratégicas de la Coalición
Political Watch
EL THINK-AND-DO TANK de la Fundación Salvador Soler
Observatorio Joven de Inclumplimiento Político (OJITO)
Spanish promise tracker holding government and political parties to account
¿Dónde van mis impuestos?
Explora los Presupuestos Generales del Estado
¿Qué Pasó Con?
Vigilamos el cumplimiento que el Gobierno hace de las iniciativas de orientación política aprobadas por el Parlamento en temas de desarrollo y lucha contra la pobreza
Ad Watch
ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.
Algorithm Watch
Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes
Algo Transparency
An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.
AlaveteliCon
A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety
A qué precio?
Este observatorio de compras públicas en Salud recopila datos sobre los precios que pagan diferentes organismos estatales por medicamentos para permitir su análisis y transparentar la información gube...
Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.
WhoWasInCommand
WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.
Corruption Watch
Corruption Watch is a Transparency International chapter working to fight corruption in South Africa
TI Lietuvos Skyrius (Transparency International Lithuania)
Skaidresnės Lietuvos link! Esame viešosios politikos organizacija, kurios tikslas – įgyvendinti skaidrumo bei antikorupcines iniciatyvas.
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
By developing and equipping a global network of investigative journalists and publishing their stories, OCCRP exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.
Accountability Lab
Accountability Lab is a global translocal network that makes governance work for people by supporting active citizens, responsible leaders and accountable institutions. Our goal is a world in which re...