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

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

• commercial

• Organize events

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

• guides

• Govtech
• Service delivery

Focused on promoting conversation and action when it comes to the ending of organisations in civil society.

• Fieldwide resources

All UK councillors 2016-2023 + by-election info

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A free downloadable resource from Digital Charity Lab and ODV Digital, to help you ensure that your organisation doesn’t get locked out of its social media or other digital accounts.

• Nonprofit tech
• Social media

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

• Civic data
• Open government data

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

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

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

• housing
• surveillance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

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

2019 report by Richard Pope

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Postcode lookup search engine to "Have your say about local issues. Councils carry out consultations on the way they plan, manage and deliver services."

• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Quick poll creation tool

• Surveys & polling
• Group decision making

A federated social media platform alternative to Twitter (X)

• Mastodon

A marketing page collection of Google's "tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely"

• Google
• commercial

• Media
• Civic tech catalogs
• Journalism

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

"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

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

• guides

• Civic data
• Data governance
• Playbooks and design principles

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
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

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

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

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.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• 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

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.

• Graveyard
• Ethical tech and responsible tech