This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

WP:MED as it is known aims to manage and help in curation of Wikipedia's medical articles.

• Good health and well-being
• Wikipedia

• Open knowledge

Building a comprehensive dataset of patent citations

• Open knowledge

Unlock the $13 trillion global procurement market through the world's leading tender, contract, spend and grant data.

• Govtech
• Procurement

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

• Group decision making
• Surveys & polling

A federated social media platform alternative to Twitter (X)

• Mastodon

2019 report by Richard Pope

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

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
• Reports
• Fieldwide resources

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

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

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

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

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

• housing
• surveillance
• landlord

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

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

Learn about different possible open data interventions, based on level of feasibility and impact

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Maturity Assessment

Now offline guide for good grantmaking things to be aware of

• Tools for Funders

48 organisations share 65 Guides to how they use digital tools to run their services and operations. You are free to copy and learn from what they've done.

• Nonprofit tech
• Digital literacy

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

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
• 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

A manifesto for opening politics

• Ideation
• Manifestos
• Political parties

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

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

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

• Digital security and privacy

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

• Community-building resources

Over 60 people were interviewed to help understand the user needs of digital consultations.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

A Window into Culture and Politics on YouTube

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

How might tech support communities to carry out collective decision-making and collective design?

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

A policy note to make it easier for more people to engage with the UK government's National Data Strategy.