Bonsai is a research system that replaces "black-box" engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation.

• Research tools
• Recommender feeds

aCURE.info is a deterministic search platform that can run hundreds of integrated, weighted-context queries simultaneously.

• Research tools
• Access to laws
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Open Source Intelligence ( OSINT ) is the collection and analysis of data gathered from open sources to produce actionable intelligence.

• Cybersecurity
• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

World's largest Internet Domain Database

• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Semantic code search over 24,500+ UK government repositories.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Open government data

A source-anchored parsing tool for separating source text, meaning, missing information, and verification needs before downstream use.

• Artificial Intelligence
• General purpose open source tools
• Research tools

A public news feed for anything you care about.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Research tools

Follow your peers' research trails.

• Research tools
• Decentralization
• Social networks

Communalytic is a no-code computational social science research tool for studying online communities and public discourse on social media

• Media
• Data visualization
• Media and social media analysis

Categorum is a tool for people to categorise their data using advanced AI technology.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

AI-powered deep research on councillor performance. Get comprehensive reports in minutes, not days.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government

The V-Dem Graphing Tools is a platform for making data visualization intuitive, accessible and easy to use

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V-Party) is a dataset examining the policy positions and organizational structures of political parties across the world.

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Research tools

Poliscope ist eine Plattform, die kommunale Sitzungsinformationen, Dokumente und Datenzugänge aus ganz Deutschland zentral bündelt.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Government transparency
• Research tools

Capture, organize, and preserve information from online research, safely, quickly, and easily.

• Research tools

AI-powered tool for rapid evidence synthesis in policymaking

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools
• Policy

The DCKG API provides programmatic access to the Distroid Catalogue Knowledge Graph, a database of metadata on media from the grey literature and other non-traditional sources at the intersection of technology and society and to support efforts to improve the human-technology relationship

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

The Google Trends API enables programmatic access to data from Google Trends, helping researchers, journalists, and developers conduct better analysis on search behavior and trends.

• Research tools

The report introduces three indices—the AI Frontier Index, the AI Infrastructure Index, and the AI Diffusion Index—to help policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders understand where breakthroughs are happening, where capacity exists to scale, and where AI is being used to improve lives.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools
• Digital transformation

Ask the right questions to gather data on assemblies and protests organised and/or held online, offline or a combination thereof.

• Advocacy tech
• Research tools
• Protest movements

Free maritime sanctions database tracking 800+ vessels across OFAC, EU, UK, CA, AU, NZ with live AIS monitoring to expose shadow fleet operations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

By Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart

• reports

• Civic data
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

This tool allows you to extract text, metadata, selectors and images from supported files.

• Research tools

Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.

• Archives
• General purpose open source tools
• Research tools

A free resource for studying Teeline shorthand.

• trainings

• Journalism
• Research tools

Directory of Open Access Journals: Find open access journals & articles.

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Research tools

Browse millions of annual returns filed by tax-exempt organizations with ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer. See details like executive compensation, revenue, expenses and more.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic data APIs

KanishkaKloud visualises what MPs talk about most - by collating and filtering data from every word they’ve ever said in Parliament.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Unlock insights from YouTube comments with the power of AI

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

Enter in two concepts and it uses AI to chart paths between them

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions
• Research tools

Powerful Tools For Online Investigations

• commercial

• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Youth Data Lab amplifies the voices of young people through over 7000 youth survey responses, 31,000 minutes of youth interviews, and 35,000 quantitative data points covering 65 Canadian cities.

• youth

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Narrative tech

PollFinder.ai leverages large language models to help newsrooms collect and organize both horserace and issue polls, enabling journalists to write stories that are informed by an up-to-date aggregation of public opinion polls.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Voting and elections

This is a tool for crowdsourcing data, initially designed for gathering data about local authority climate actions for https://councilclimatescorecards.uk/

• Crowdsourcing
• Research tools

Open-Source Platform for Mobile Device Forensics and Digital Investigations

• General purpose open source tools
• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

SOMO’s global helpdesk for environmental and social justice activists challenging corporate power

• Advocacy tech
• Consumer watchdogging
• Research tools

Guardoni is a free software automated web scraper, used to collect data about platforms as Youtube and Tik Tok.

• YouTube
• TikTok

• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

Find errors in your datasets quickly, and learn useful data skills on the go

• Civic data
• General purpose open source tools
• Research tools

We are a collaborative and open-source project to develop software that tests for coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) in datasets of online activity.

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

UKGrantmaking seeks to provide an overview and insight into grantmaking in the UK across different funding sectors.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Research tools

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools

We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.

• Govtech
• Research tools
• Open knowledge

Our mission is to combine the raw stats and trends of the HTTP Archive with the expertise of the web community.

• Research tools
• Open internet

The HTTP Archive Tracks How the Web is Built.

• Open civic data
• Research tools
• Open internet

Eyecite is a high performance, robust, open source tool for extracting legal citations from text.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Investigative journalism tech

Juriscraper is a data gathering library written in Python that collects legal opinions, PACER content, and oral arguments from the American court system.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Open justice

X-Ray is a fast and robust tool to identify bad redactions in PDF files.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Investigative journalism tech

The Big Cases bot follows the biggest cases in the country, but many people want updates for specific topics they follow.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Open justice

Doctor is a microservice for converting and extracting documents and audio files.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Access to laws

Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

• commercial

• Academia
• Research tools