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OpenArchive

OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence. We conduct co-research, build tools, and create guides that advance human rights every day.

Mob Data Thailand

Mob Data Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทย โดยเริ่มบันทึกข้อมูลตั้งแต่เดือนมกราคม 2563 และเปิดให้ทดลองใช้งานตั้งแต่วันที่ 7 สิงหาคม 2563

ParlGov

ParlGov is a data infrastructure for political science. It contains information about parties, elections and cabinets for all EU and most OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today.

Defensores de la Democracia

Defensores de la Democracia

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Antes de la creación de este archivo viviente, no había ningún lugar que encontrara, agregara, clasificara y resguardara los trabajos de los periodistas asesinados en México.

Protestlandschaft Deutschland

Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.

PoliFLW

PoliFLW

Netherlands (the)

Local politics is getting less attention in the media, due to budget cuts. Meanwhile Dutch municipalities are getting more responsibilities due to decentralisations. With PoliFLW journalists and other interested parties can quickly follow news from local political parties and politicians.

LocalView

LocalView

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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.

Junkipedia

Junkipedia

Washington D.C., DC, USA

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.

DCinbox

DCinbox

Hoboken

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

GovInfo

GovInfo

Capitol Hill

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.

Congressional Directory

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

Project Dokaz Alliance

Project Dokaz Alliance

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

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.

Starling Lab

Starling Lab

California

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

Big Local News

Big Local News

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

Save

Save (Share Archive Verify Encrypt) by OpenArchive enables you to safely preserve, organize, and share your mobile media. Designed with and for newsrooms, human rights defenders, and archivists, Save keeps you in control of your mobile media at all times.

Kosh

Archive containing content scraped from all the different sources- the Tattle Jod telegram bot, Fact-checking sites, social media and chat apps.

WhatsApp archiver

The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database. The scraper relies on WhatsApp's export chat feature which allows 40,000 messages to be exported without media and 10,000 to be exported with media. If a media item has not been downloaded to your phone, it cannot be exported through the export chat feature. The archiver removes overlaps in different files exported from a chat; and anonymizes sender and group names.

Wikirumours

WikiRumours is a web-based database which enables geographically distributed teams to collaborate asynchronously on monitoring, verifying, and countering the spread of harmful rumours and misinformation.

Disinfo Database

EU vs Disinfo's database of over 12,000 samples of pro-Kremlin disinformation

Arquivo Casoteca

Conheça casos envolvendo liberdade de expressão no ambiente digital

The New Deal Map

The New Deal Map

United States of America (the)

We've mapped more than 17,000 New Deal sites and now have more than 100 sites documented in every state.

Mnemonic

Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.

Court Listener

Court Listener

Oakland, California

Search millions of opinions by case name, topic, or citation. 406 Jurisdictions. Sponsored by the Non-Profit Free Law Project. 501c3

Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage.

#defensiveTO

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

सङ्ग्रह (Collection)

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

Ad Watch

Ad Watch

Arizona, USA

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

Open Gazettes South Africa

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.

WhoWasInCommand

WhoWasInCommand

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.

Archiving local political websites

Archiving local political websites

United States of America (the)

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

TV News Archive and captions

Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S. broadcasts using closed captioning; Borrow broadcasts on DVDs; View and Cite short streamed clips; Compare and Contrast perspectives across networks, stations and time; and Place video quotes within your commentary. Dive in and Share your insights!

Syrian Archive

Syrian Archive

Syrian Arab Republic

Syrian Archive is a open source platform that collects, curates, verifies, and preserves visual documentation of human rights violations in Syria

Oyez

Oyez

565 W Adams St, Chicago, IL 60661, USA

It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.

Pocket Law

Pocket Law

South Africa

Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe to use this legal library.

Participedia

Participedia

Vancouver

Anyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.

Princeton Corpus of Political Emails

This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contains 286,576 emails from 3,071 senders.

Urban Archive

Urban Archive

155 Rivington Street, New York, NY, USA

Urban Archive is a technology nonprofit that creates new connections between people, places, and historical institutions.

Data Refuge

The Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities (PPEH) fosters interdisciplinary environmental collaboration and scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and beyond.

ArchiveSocial

ArchiveSocial

212 W Main Street Durham, NC 27701

Social Media Archiving Built for Government Transparency

Source Africa

It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

Block Party

Block Party

New York, NY

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

Parliamentary Monitoring Group

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.

Facebook Ad Archive

The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.

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