The purpose of the Global Democracy Initiative is to organize, train, and deploy Former Parliamentarians of Canada, Former Members of the European Parliament, and Former Members of the U.S. Congress as participants in democracy building activities such as election observation, democratic institution building, and supporting elected representatives in emerging democracies as they strive for free and transparent forms of good governance.

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight
• Election observation

An instance of mySociety's TheyWorkForYou

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Como ya hicimos en anteriores legislaturas, vamos a monitorizar toda la actividad legislativa y parlamentaria de la Cámara baja para ayudar a la institución y a nuestros diputados y diputadas a cumplir con valores de gobernanza imprescindibles en nuestros días como la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Sinar Project is a civic tech initiative using open technology, open data and policy analysis to systematically make important information public and more accessible to the Malaysian people. It aims to improve governance and encourage greater citizen involvement in the public affairs of the nation by making Parliament and Malaysian Government more open, transparent and accountable.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Open government data

ПАРЛАМЕНТСЬКІ ДАНІ У ГРАФІКАХ ТА ІНТЕРАКТИВНИХ ТАБЛИЦЯХ (Visualizations of Ukraine Parliamentary data)

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Visualizes votes in Ukrainian parliament

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Як депутати голосують за питання, які важливі для тебе? - They Vote for You instance in Ukraine

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.

• Peer networks

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

WeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.

• Civic data
• Data visualization

Write rules as code

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Access social benefits
• Budget explorers

Compute the impact of public policy

• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

One of the leading non-governmental and non-partisan All-Ukrainian organizations for public oversight and advocacy in the field of elections, parliamentarism, education, joint ownership, energy efficiency, local self-government, as well as the comprehensive implementation of the principle of open data.

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

Memo 98 is a specialist media monitoring organization, with extensive experience of delivery media analyses on behalf of international institutions as well as technical assistance to civil society groups.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The European Union developed a Code of Practice on Disinformation based on the findings of its High Level Working Group on the issue.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech legislation and policy

The overall goal of the project is to safeguard the information integrity around the 2020 Parliamentary and 2021 Municipal elections in Georgia from disinformation, discrediting campaigns and other hostile information operations on social media.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Polétika República Dominicana is a group of civil society organizations and movements that work in different areas, including: health, housing and habitat, taxation, citizen security, transparency, childhood and adolescence, gender, and municipality.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The full compilation of enacted US law wasn't available as a complete and accessible digital collection...until now.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

200 years of UK Parliamentary speeches. This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. This was part of a project led by the Commons and Lords libraries.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

This edition of the South African Constitution has been specially created to be easy to access, read, print and distribute.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Constitutions

Congress.gov is now OCRing the official Statutes at Large compilation, covering Congress's Generation X era of 1973-1994.

• guides

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

A project tracking the many attempts to modify the Chilean constitution

• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Constitutions

This is a public interest bot, a project of Demand Progress, that tweets primary source announcements concerning US House and Senate Appropriations

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Resist the Parliament Shutdown. protest map, calendar, updates, posters.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic literacy

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Korean participatory policymaking platform

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Now defunct Finnish legislation crowdsourcing site

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Now defunct Finnish crowdlaw platform

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Crowdsourcing

Invites citizens to share how they'd vote on issues, and track how representatives did

• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Directorio Legislativo is an Argentina-based research and advocacy organisation focusing on legislative transparency, consensus building and research on current regulatory affairs.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Run your own Freedom of Information website

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Uses machine learning to track legislation and predict the best methods of advocating for them

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Legislative Monitor is a user-friendly interactive tool that provides a unique insight into the adoption of legislation in Slovenia and a review of the activities of Members of the National Assembly.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Acquired by Causes. Countable was a citizen’s dashboard to democracy, combining a decoder for Washington policymaking with civic action in one place.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Observatoire citoyen de l'activité parlementaire au Sénat

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Pagina de start - Portal Legislativ

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Knomos employs modern app frameworks and design principles grounded in the user experience to deliver more powerful legal tools.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

We bring together people from the UK, no matter what their background, to stop the Tories from winning another parliamentary majority at the next election. We use electoral data to determine which left-leaning party has the best chance of beating the Tories in 50 of the most marginal seats and support any and all volunteers to get out campaigning.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Parliamentary monitoring in Ireland

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

Alaveteli instance for Romania

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency

See what your representatives in Congress say and do.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

• women

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Eric Cantor's legislation-tracking platform, built on Facebook

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy