We are a collaborative and open-source project to develop software that tests for coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) in datasets of online activity.

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

UKGrantmaking seeks to provide an overview and insight into grantmaking in the UK across different funding sectors.

• Get funding
• Tools for Funders
• Research tools

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools

We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.

• Govtech
• Open knowledge
• Research tools

The HTTP Archive Tracks How the Web is Built.

• Open internet
• Open civic data
• Research tools

Our mission is to combine the raw stats and trends of the HTTP Archive with the expertise of the web community.

• Open internet
• Research tools

Juriscraper is a data gathering library written in Python that collects legal opinions, PACER content, and oral arguments from the American court system.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Access to laws

The Big Cases bot follows the biggest cases in the country, but many people want updates for specific topics they follow.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Investigative journalism tech

X-Ray is a fast and robust tool to identify bad redactions in PDF files.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Investigative journalism tech

Doctor is a microservice for converting and extracting documents and audio files.

• Legal tech
• Access to laws
• Research tools

Eyecite is a high performance, robust, open source tool for extracting legal citations from text.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Investigative journalism tech

Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

• commercial

• Academia
• Research tools

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

• Google
• commercial

• Civic data
• Research tools

A qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.

• seniors
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Policy
• Story tech

The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses

• reports

• Media and social media analysis
• Report cards and audits
• Research tools

a Discord bot for ethical, responsive digital ethnography

• Discord

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Bots
• Research tools

sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

• corruption

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge
• Open internet

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Policy

Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Surveys & polling
• Research tools

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Citizen Engagement
• Research tools

Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research tools

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Open civic data

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research tools

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

• Media
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)
• Research tools

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using software, data, and advocacy to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Investigative journalism tech

Explore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Research tools

A library of design interventions to encourage prosocial behaviors online

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design
• Playbooks and design principles

an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Research tools

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.

• free speech

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data