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Technologies that seek to provide greater visibility to the activities of governments, corporations, or individuals in power and allow others to monitor them.

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Publish What You Fund

Publish What You Fund

Publish What You Fund, Southbank House, Black Prince Road, London, SE1 7SJ, UK

Publish What You Fund is the global campaign for aid transparency. Our website outlines who we are, what we do and what you can do for aid transparency.

Garnahata Ukranian real estate database

ГарнаХата — база даних власників найдорожчої нерухомості України.

Penali.ro

Penali.ro

Romania 🇷🇴

Catalogul aleşilor penali. De consultat înainte să mergem la vot.

TheyWorkforYou

TheyWorkforYou

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

TheyWorkForYou is a website which makes it easy to keep track of your local MP's activities.

FragDenStaat

To strengthen the topic of freedom of information as a whole by transparently depicting the inquiry and response process.

Dozorro

Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption

Skaidrumo Linija

Skaidrumo Linija

Lithuania (Lietuva) 🇱🇹

Platform for Lithuanian citizens to seek advise on reporting corruption or dealing with corruption, enhanced with an interactive map.

Marsad Budget

Marsad Budget

4 Rue Apollo XI, Cité Mahrajène, Tunis, Tunisie

Marsad Budget is a continuation of Al Bawsala's work, which is based on monitoring the various institutions in charge of managing state affairs and the consecration of the principle of transparency and thus making available to the citizen, simplified and accessible information on the state budget

Open Courts Slovakia

Interactive platform which makes available and accessible information on judicial decrees, hearings and other selected documents, that were published on pages of the Ministry of Justice

Barcelona Pressupost Obert (Open Budget)

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

Full Fact

Full Fact

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Full Fact is the UK's independent factchecking organisation

The Foilies

Recognizing the year’s worst in government transparency

Open Gov Report Card

Open Gov Report Card

6100 S Blackstone Ave, Chicago, IL 60637

Grades how Chicago and Cook County government agencies share important meeting information like agendas, minutes and schedules with the public

OffeneRegister.de

OffeneRegister.de

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

Light into the darkness of the corporate network

Harta clientelismului politic

The map shows the transfers from the Government to the municipalities and county councils from the Reserve Fund (15%), Local Development National Program (65%) and other programs managed by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration that sum up to 7.5 billion lei

Politifact

Politifact

Duke University, Durham, NC

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

Connected Development (CODE)

We are building the largest social accountability movement, empowering marginalized communities in Africa.

Mulika

Mulika

Kenya 🇰🇪

Mulika allows users to annoymously report corruption by government officials and other crimes through SMS. Userscan report a case by sending a text message, which is forwarded to relevant officials.

Tenders Guru

Tenders Guru is a website that allows to monitor public procurement processes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

Integrity Action

Integrity Action

The Leather Market, London

Citizens Monitor. Everyone wins. We empower citizens to demand integrity from the institutions they rely on.

Fundación Ciudadana Civio

Fundación Ciudadana Civio

C/ Sebastián Elcano 32, 1st Floor, office nº 17. CP 28012, Madrid. España (Spain)

Periodismo y acción para abrir lo público

Sunshine Week

Sunshine Week

Washington, DC

Across the country, Sunshine Week is marked by panel discussions, workshops and other events about using and understanding the latest developments in freedom of information resources.

BudgIt

BudgIt

55 Moleye Street, Alagomeji-Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria

BudgIT is a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change.

Follow The Money Nigeria

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

Sprawdzamy Jak Jest

Sprawdzamy Jak Jest

Poland (Polska) 🇵🇱

a tool to crowdsource answers to FOIA request.

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)

Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)

United States of America 🇺🇸

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

Harta Rapoarte Activitate

Pentru munca de cercetare din cadrul proiectului „Podul Bunei Guvernări", au fost verificate 106 instituţii din România (18 ministere, 41 de consilii judeţene şi 47 de primării ale municipiilor reşedinţă de judeţ, inclusiv Bucureşti şi cele 6 sectoare).

Watchout.tw

Watchout.tw

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

我們有一個很簡單而實際的夢想:相信台灣可以更好。讓台灣更好的力量,來自於更多主動參與、向外關注的公民,所以,我們致力於降低公民參與政治的門檻。沃草的英文名字Watchout,原意是提防和警戒。只要我們每個小小公民都能時時張大眼睛、提高警覺,政客就不容易為所欲為,台灣的公民社會才能茁壯。

Corporate Tax Tracker

A tool to examine publicly available key financial data of the 20 largest European banks.

Councilmatic

Councilmatic

United States of America 🇺🇸

Search, browse, subscribe and comment on your City Council bills, council members and events.

FactChecker.in

FactChecker.in

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

FactChecker.in is India’s first dedicated Fact Check initiative.

Operation Serenata de Amor

Operation Serenata de Amor

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

Project Vote Smart

Project Vote Smart

Vote Smart, 1153 24th Street, Des Moines, IA 50311

Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988.

OpenSecrets.org

OpenSecrets.org

Center For Responsive Politics, L Street Northwest, Washington, DC

We pursue our mission largely through our award-winning website, OpenSecrets.org, which is the most comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere

Integrity Watch Chile

User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of lobbying activities in the UK.

Legistorm

Legistorm

LegiStorm, Pierce School Lofts, 1375 Maryland Ave., NE Loft B, Washington, DC 20002

Detailed, up-to-date and accurate congressional contact and biographic data - and much more.

Marsad Baladia

Marsad Baladia

4 Rue Apollo XI, Cité Mahrajène, Tunis, Tunisie

“Marsad Baladia” , or the Municipality Observatory, was launched in January 2014, aiming to monitor municipal activity through access to information, and to present it in a clear and updated manner. The project also aims to strengthen the link between the municipality and citizens,

Rosie

Rosie

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

An artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.

Declarator Russia

Declarator Russia

Russian Federation 🇷🇺

Декларатор — это постоянно пополняемая база деклараций о доходах и имуществе публичных должностных лиц: депутатов, чиновников, судей, представителей региональной и муниципальной власти, иных органов, госкорпораций и госкомпанией

Majlesnama

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

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