• Taxonomies

Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

A manifesto for opening politics

• Ideation
• Political parties
• Manifestos

Nym protects communication patterns, IP addresses and metadata for end-users, enterprise and infrastructure operators

• Digital security and privacy

The easy way to match points to boundaries

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A mega list of handbooks and toolkits for groups working without top-down management from social movements to workplaces open source for anyone to read, update, share

• Advocacy tech
• Decentralization
• Distributed campaigns

The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).

• Wikipedia

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

A collaborative, investigative network revealing stories that matter to communities across the UK

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Platform Land was a project at digitalHKS examining how digital platforms will change government and society.

• guides

• Govtech
• Service delivery

Find and host regenerative events and co-created gatherings 🧘🏼‍♀️ 🌱 🕺

• commercial

• Organize events

A prototype project exploring how political parties and organizations could do a better job managing membership

• Advocacy tech
• CRM

soweego is a pipeline that connects Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs.

• Wikipedia

• Civic data
• Data integration

DAO creation and management platform with no coding required

• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

The Data and Public Services Toolkit aims to help public authorities make better use of data. It addresses challenges such as: how to make a business case for data use; how to use data ethically and fairly; and how to identify and utilise relevant datasets.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital transformation

Network-centric resources are people-powered and participatory resources that aim to maximise usage and engagement. They are developed through sharing ownership, enabling contribution and supporting collaboration.

• Group decision making

We’ve had enough of digital monopolies and surveillance capitalism. We want a world that works for everyone, just like the original intention of the web and net.

• Decentralization

CommunityRule provides a library of templates for different community governance structures, including Benevolent Dictator, Consensus, Do-Ocracy, Elected Board, Jury, and Petition Policy Register

• Meet the others
• Community-building resources

Real-time political monitoring

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

This is a simple app which generates a WhatsApp share link.

• WhatsApp

• Social media

This calculator measures how much value a responsible business team, which has real power over the future of your products, can generate from a financial perspective.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Graveyard

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

Quick poll creation tool

• Surveys & polling
• Group decision making

A federated social media platform alternative to Twitter (X)

• Mastodon

2019 report by Richard Pope

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

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
• Reports
• Fieldwide resources

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

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

• guides

• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles
• Data governance

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

Now-defunct social action aggregator portal

• Graveyard
• Activism aggregators

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Data schemas and standards
• Mapping tools

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