Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Participatory democracy
• Archives
• Communicating with the people

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Archives
• Crowdsourcing

Junkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Archives

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

• Civic data
• Archives
• Email campaign tools

GovInfo is free U.S. Government information for all. GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Archives

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• Govtech
• Archives
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Media
• Civic data
• Archives

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Archives

NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.

• Media
• Get funding
• Nonprofit newsrooms

European Institute for Participative Democracy

GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM. AWARD-WINNING FILMS.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

An incubator for radically disruptive public service ideas, designed, owned and delivered by the public sector for public impact. An endeavour from FutureGov.

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Incubators

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

The Bristol Cable is an independent media company in Bristol, UK, founded in 2014.

Publica is Brazil’s first investigative reporting non-profit dedicated to exposing human rights violations and promoting open democracy.

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

Transparency International chapter

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Government transparency

Our COVID-19 dataset contains detailed information on over five million anonymized cases from over 100 countries.