Slack alternative - "The secure collaboration hub for technical teams"

• Slack

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Internal communication and coordination

Algorithmic tool by the Italian government to fight tax evasion by cross-checking self-reported income with assets and other databases in a privacy-protecting approach

• taxes

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Govtech

Civic innovation & equality in DC

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic apps outfits

The Open Government Leadership Collaborative (OGLC) pilot program sought to enhance the leadership capacity of reformers within the context of their work.

• trainings
• Open Government Partnership (OGP)

• Govtech
• Building inside government

dedicated to deconstructing representative or audience democracy and building a liquid and participatory democracy through interactive communication tools, political articulation and co-creation methodologies.

• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure.

• Signal

• Digital security and privacy
• Chat and messaging

Our WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.

• WhatsApp

• Media and social media analysis
• Messaging app analysis

We are an employee-owned digital mobilisation agency. We create campaigns online that get people to take action.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Shareable, no-login calendar

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Organize events

Free tool that takes a Wikipedia URL and extracts data to CSV

• Wikipedia

• Civic data
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

UK elections database with every district council level election and above

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Civic data APIs

A free, open source tool that displays open analytics for Wikipedia pages

• Wikipedia

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

Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Open source

Easily find vetted research participants and AI taskers at scale

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Labor platforms

Discover search trends across Google Search, Bing, and YouTube

• commercial

• Narrative tech
• Big listening

Build A platform for creating research, Recruit anyone around the world, Create your own panel of participants.

• Open science

The Decelerator is a free support service for civil society organisations. We offer information, tools and hands-on support for better endings.

• Fieldwide resources

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

• Open knowledge
• Open science

OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration. Get started

• Open science

Catalyst is a network helping the UK third sector grow its digital skills and processes. We offer free services and resources from across our network, curated to support you at every step of your digital journey.

• Nonprofit tech

The most powerful platform for behavioral research and experiments

• Surveys & polling
• Open science

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.

• Identity
• Open science

UK PlanIt is a national aggregator for current and historical planning information.

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

In a new series of blogs, Richard Pope looks at concrete examples of digital transparency, accountability and recourse from around the world.

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Identity

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance
• landlord

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Quick poll creation tool

• Group decision making
• Surveys & polling

This guide aims to provide helpful tools and techniques for identifying LinkedIn profiles and for extracting information that will then allow you to pivot to other social media profiles belonging to the target.

• LinkedIn

• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Real-time Quadratic Voting dashboard to encourage mathematically optimal voting in democratic communities.

• Voting and elections
• Quadratic voting

A marketing page collection of Google's "tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely"

• Google
• commercial

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data

• guides

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

"The Government Says" make news releases from Government departments easy to find and easy to scan through quickly.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Archives

Postcode lookup search engine to "Have your say about local issues. Councils carry out consultations on the way they plan, manage and deliver services."

• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A federated social media platform alternative to Twitter (X)

• Mastodon

• Decentralization
• Social media
• Open social

2019 report by Richard Pope

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

FixMyBlock aims to cut through the jargon and empower residents. Find out everything your landlords should be doing to keep tower blocks safe — and what to do if they aren’t.

• housing
• landlord

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Now-defunct social action aggregator portal

• Graveyard
• Activism aggregators

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Data schemas and standards
• Civic data APIs

whopostedwhat.com is a non public Facebook keyword search for people who work in the public interest. It allows you to search keywords on specific dates. You are granted access because of your work. We do urge you to donate a small amount of money to keep the server running.

• Facebook

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

This guidebook helps people design and run projects that involve the collaborative maintenance of data

• guides

• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles
• Data governance

Research by Rebecca Rumbul of mySociety - As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

• Wikipedia

• Reports

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Service alerts