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

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

• Graveyard
• Budget explorers

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

CMEV was formed in 1997 by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Coalition Against Political Violence as an independent and non-partisan organisation to monitor the incidence of election related violence.

• Preventing election violence

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Election observation

An instance of mySociety's TheyWorkForYou

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

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

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

Transparency International France

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

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

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.

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.

Transparency International Senegal

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Groundviews is a citizens journalism website based in Sri Lanka which uses a range of genres and media to highlight alternative perspectives on governance, human rights, the arts and literature, peace-building and other issues.

• democracy
• human rights
• peace

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Factchecking

Transparency International Guatemala

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Al Hayat aims to promote accountability, governance, public participation and community cohesion in Jordan and the region within the framework of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, taking into consideration gender mainstreaming in public policy and action.

Căutare în date publice Informația devine mai importantă dacă este împărtășită și mult mai puțin valoroasă dacă este tezaurizată.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

Ma Dada est un site associatif qui vous aide à faire des demandes d’accès aux documents administratifs communicables.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Citizens Advice is a network of 316 independent charities throughout the United Kingdom that give free, confidential information and advice to assist people with money, legal, consumer and other problems.

“Making Government Information More Accessible”

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Access to laws

Democracy & Freedom Watch is an independent news service reporting on democracy and freedom in the Republic of Georgia. It is published by Journalists for the Future, a non-governmental organization registered in Georgia and supported by Open Society and The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

Vielfalt, Transparenz, Offenheit, Demokratie - Katalog offener Datensätze und Dienste aus der öffentlichen Verwaltung, frei nutzbar.

Transparency International chapter

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The goal of the Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society is to contribute to the process of transparency and fairness of elections through the organization of qualitative, objective and independent monitoring of the pre-election process, the voting day and summing up the results.

Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest – your interests – in the halls of power.

• Watchdogging and transparency

ALTSEAN-Burma (Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma) was formed in October 1996 by a diverse network of organizations and individuals at the Alternative ASEAN Meeting on Burma, held in Bangkok.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

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

Finding out what your representatives in Ottawa are up to can be tough. We’re trying to make it easy.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Find your representatives

We are a global group of change makers working to build a more inclusive and sustainable world where all people, everywhere, can reach their fullest potential.

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Economic development

Advocates Equality | Fights Racism and Racial Discrimination

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

munigov.org is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, munigov.org has it all.

Transparency International Slovenia

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Hacks/Hackers is a rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organization with dozens of groups (and counting) and thousands of members across four continents (and counting).

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

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

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

• Challenges

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

Open Data Project Web Peru

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

Innovation space in Cornellà de Llobregat

• Hubs

An organization dedicated to investigating corruption, injustice, and abuse of power in the federal government and advocating for reforms.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The African Elections Project : your authoritative African Elections Information and Knowledge online portal, covering elections across the continent

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The Aspen Institute Kyiv is an independent nonpartisan organization that supports values-based leadership, promotes a culture of dialogue and create opportunities for the exchange of ideas.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service.

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

• mobility

Somos una alianza de instituciones feministas latinoamericanas creada como una sociedad de trabajo entre organizaciones que promueven y defienden los derechos humanos y la justicia de género en la región.

Progressive Power Lab provides management and marketing services to nonprofit and for-profit organizations working to realize democracy, achieve justice, and restore our environment

• partisan

• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The LOGD project investigates the role of Semantic Web technologies, especially Linked Data, in producing, enhancing and utilizing government data published on Data.gov and other websites.

Transparency International Venezuela

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency