CIDE is a center for research and higher education that specializes in social sciences in accordance with international quality standards, and is publicly funded.

From 1991 to 2021 the FAS Project on Government Secrecy worked to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight in national security affairs.

An African Feminist Legal Centre that advances womxn’s rights and equality through strategic litigation, advocacy and education and training.

Society for free culture and software

• Decade-Plus Club

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

• Challenges

Nafundi's mission is to create technologies that improve the lives of the underserved. Our current focus is designing, building, deploying, and supporting mobile data collection systems that work well in challenging environments (e.g., offline villages in rural Kenya, humid rain forests in Brazil, and even the International Space Station).

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Peer networks

Promoting Transparency and Accountability in key socio economic service delivery sectors his stra…

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Advocates Equality | Fights Racism and Racial Discrimination

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch) ceased operations as of March 2016. The majority of work and materials has been passed on to the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). This site is being maintained as an archive of materials produced.

• Supporting public sector from outside government

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

PILDAT will work for strengthening democracy and democratic institutions in Pakistan by building the capability of and instituting non-partisan monitoring framework for the elected representatives and legislatures while facilitating greater participation of all segments of the society in the democratic process and development of new political leadership.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Kubatana is a civic society information hub in Zimbabwe.

Transparentný pohľad na slovenské súdy. Ktoré sú najrýchlejšie a ktoré platia najvyššie pokuty za zlé verdikty? Aké majú sudcovia majetky? Hľadajte v súdnych rozhodnutiach a pojednávaniach!

Mayor Emanuel's tech plan for Chicago

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Inštitút pre verejné otázky (IVO) je nezávislou mimovládnou neziskovou organizáciou združujúcou odborníkov z rôznych oblastí, vytvorenou so zámerom presadzovať hodnoty otvorenej spoločnosti a demokratickej politickej kultúry vo verejnej politike a spoločenskom rozhodovaní.

The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is the world’s largest online community and repository of electoral knowledge.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Voter Information Service is a non-partisan, non-profit, independent organization founded in 1995 to promote accountability in government.

Connect and live more safely

• apps
• crime

The Integrity Pact (IP) is a tool to help governments, businesses and the civil society to fight corruption in public contracting and procurement.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using cloud technology to solve the world's most pressing challenges

• Amazon

• Get funding
• Build something

Our name, Digital Public Square, embodies our shared vision to create the vibrant, healthy, community spaces we all urgently need.

DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.

• youth

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

TI-UK is the UK chapter of Transparency International, committed to increasing the integrity of national institutions, minimising the effect of British corruption abroad and combatting corruption within the UK.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

CIPPEC works to promote a just, democratic and efficient State that improves the quality of life for all Argentine citizens.

International Aid Transparency Initiative IATI is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian resources and their results to address poverty and crises.

• No poverty

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Transnational digital dialogue with citizens from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania

• reports

Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Black Stripe Foundation is a media production company that produces educational television programmes and other media, one of which is the 'Big Debate', a renowned town-hall debate style TV show in South Africa.

Reese News Lab is an experimental media and research project based at the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We analyze the news from several perspectives, including from an economic, social, or political perspective.

• Media
• Journalism

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

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An instance of mySociety's TheyWorkForYou

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

identity

Otevíráme, vizualizuje a analyzuje parlamentní, volební a rozpočtová data. Díky nám víte, kdo vás doopravdy zastupuje.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Mi smo grupa aktivista i novinara koja zajedno sa građanima utiče na povećanje odgovornosti institucija i javnih funkcionera kroz praćenje i kontrolu njihovog rada.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

Viewfinder is an accountability journalism project in South Africa. Viewfinder conduct long term investigations into abuses of power which impact on the public interest – specifically as it relates to the need for equality and redress – in post-apartheid South African society.

• Investigative journalism tech

Watchdog.net, a project of Demand Progress, is a progressive organization whose one million activists work to guard the interests of ordinary Americans — and fight back against corporations and wealthy interests that seek undue control over our government, economy and society.

We're a supportive community in British Columbia, Canada enabling the government to deliver better digital services.

Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity

• Reduced inequalities

Was 4 pilot projects in European cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is Augsburg University's civic and community engagement center. We connect students, faculty, staff, and community members in the everyday work of learning together to address public issues, make change, and build democracy.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Providus has been Latvia’s leading public policy think tank since 2002. Our mission is to promote evidence-based policy and open society values.

The national voice of municipalities relating to information and communications technology.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Peer networks
• Trade groups

Refugees as City-Makers

• city
• refugees
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Civic maps

We build tools, open up data, and provide data training which supports an active citizenry and helps communities and governments work better, together.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

The three sections of our work, Election Observation, Capacity Building and Campaign & Advocacy are different parts of ANFREL’s holistic approach to the promotion of democratic institutions. These divisions, while different, support one another.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

The Policy Lab brings together experts from government, universities, and community organizations to collaborate on research tailored to inform decisions about how to improve policies and programs across the state.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Transparency International Belgium is the Belgian national chapter of Transparency International (TI) a global movement against corruption. Together we share a common vision: a world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency