by Pew Charitable Trusts

• state

• Connectivity

Covers local mutual aid, self care, mental health, kids, funders, messaging, and relief funds

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.

• The Tech
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

• human rights
• Decent work and economic growth
• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

We have collected over 40 chatbot projects by nonprofits and social businesses around the world that help build a more just, equal and sustainable future.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Bots

The OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Search over 2000 reports of AI harms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Consumer watchdogging
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Search State Court Report’s database of significant state supreme court decisions and pending cases. Download decisions and briefs for cases that develop state constitutional law.

• state

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Freedom of Information

Collection of 75 Liberal European political parties

• Civic data
• Political parties

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia
• Communicating with the government

"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Justice tech

An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• cities
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

2022 is going to be another record-breaking year for Black women candidates, and Higher Heights for America has collected the information for every Black woman running for office at the state and federal levels. These Black women are ready to run, win, and lead.

• racial equity

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Harvard Future of Media Project datasets of media ownership in the US from 2021

• Civic data
• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

This page lists 479 instances of alleged and actual misconduct by legislators in the United States Congress from 1789 to the present.

• Watchdogging and transparency

EU vs Disinfo's database of over 12,000 samples of pro-Kremlin disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Archives

An Airtable of over 200 social change design firms led by BIPoC. Curated by George Aye.

• Social impact design firms
• Civic tech catalogs
• Design

The Audit Law Database describes state laws, regulations and procedures for post-election audits in states across the country.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Our resource for the types of voting equipment we use to cast — and count — our votes by type and vendor.

• Voting and elections
• Hardware
• Election administration

The Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC) database allows users to create a custom table with fiscal information for selected cities. To create a table, select one or more cities, one or more years, and one or more fiscal variables. The default display options can be also adjusted, and users can choose whether to display data for FiSCs and/or one of the component governments (Cities, counties, school districts, and special districts).

• Watchdogging and transparency

A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.

• STEM

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out

Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Посіпаки — це відкрита база даних помічників народних депутатів України створена на основі офіційної інформації Апарату Верховної Ради України.

• Watchdogging and transparency

The Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A database of Luminate's civic tech investments

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

This is a growing collection of games that improve city making

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• apps

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Blockchain

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

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

UK elections database with every district council level election and above

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Civic data APIs

Insurrection Index is a searchable database of records on individuals and organizations in positions of public trust who were involved in the deadly attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Archives

"[A] nonpartisan source for news, resources, and commentary focused on state courts and state constitutional development. It’s the first and only website dedicated to covering state constitutional cases and trends in high courts across the 50 states."

• state

• Legal tech
• News and blogs
• Constitutions

FathomNet is an open-source image database for understanding our ocean and its inhabitants

• Life below water

• Civic data
• Environmental data

Open source no-code database and Airtable alternative

• General purpose open source tools

EASY LAWS is a free mobile app and website in Lebanon that explains laws in everyday language, giving ordinary people access to legislation from a citizen’s rather than a legalistic perspective. With easy searches via a simplified database covering 380 legal topics, over 6000 questions and answers, explanatory notes, real life examples, a glossary of terms, and extensive legal references, EASYLAWS gives people equal opportunities and leads to the elimination of discriminatory policies and laws by empowering citizens in their quest for justice.

• apps

• Legal tech
• Freedom of Information

The comprehensive database of case law from Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria

• commercial

• Legal tech

Database of hundreds of resources about nonviolent civil resistance

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"

• Good health and well-being
• racial equity
• commercial

• Diversity & Inclusion