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Watchdogging is the intentional and often adversarial act of monitoring to hold government accountable, including interventions like generating public pressure for better behavior. We've separated this category from government transparency efforts, where governments and their partners proactively work to make government more accountable and facilitate public watchdogging.

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Congressional Trader

Congressional Trader

Menlo Park, CA

A product-focused tracker for public STOCK Act disclosures: newest filings, politician profiles, ticker pages, leaderboard context, and watchlist alerts in one workflow.

Maruzat

A civil participation platform that conveys the voice of citizens to the authorities.

Seattle CouncilMatic

Seattle instance of CouncilMatic with AI-powered bill summaries, councilmember profiles, and meeting summaries updated nightly

ParlTrack

Parltrack is a european initiative to improve the transparency of legislative processes.

Frankfurt Gestalten

Frankfurter Stadtpolitik von der Straßenebene bis zur Stadtverordnetenversammlung — Themen, Abstimmungen und Nachbarschaft auf einen Blick.

VoteClarity

VoteClarity

United States of America 🇺🇸

VoteClarity is a free, non-partisan civic intelligence platform — conceived and developed in California in 2026 by Monika Pauwels-Wysocka — that uses AI and a transparent ethical framework grounded in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights to evaluate elected officials against the oath they swore to uphold, producing clear, evidence-based accountability scores freely accessible to every voter.

RAIA Africa

RAIA is Kenya's Civic Intelligence Engine that translates dense state records into instant, verified answers via WhatsApp chat.

WB Votes

WB Votes

West Bengal

An independent, non-partisan voter information tool for West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026.

Ranking dos Políticos

Veja como deputados e senadores estão atuando, compare suas notas e descubra quem realmente trabalha pelo Brasil.

Farol da Cidadania

Farol da Cidadania

Florianópolis

O Farol da Cidadania é uma plataforma social sem fins lucrativos e suprapartidária que busca promover a cultura de transparência nas atividades legislativas de Florianópolis e incentivar o controle social do poder legislativo.

HowCongressVotes

HowCongressVotes

United States of America 🇺🇸

A free congressional vote tracker where you can follow every House and Senate vote, read bill summaries, and ask questions directly about any legislation sourced from Congress.gov and multiple official U.S. government data sources.

Hack23

Hack23

Sweden (Sverige) 🇸🇪

Security excellence through radical transparency — and AI-powered political intelligence media disrupting parliamentary journalism across Europe.

Banii Partidelor

Monitors trends in campaign financing, sources of revenue, and expenditures of political parties.

Trezor

Trezor

Croatia (Hrvatska) 🇭🇷

Web app which analyses assets of government officials in Croatia.

Radoskop

Radoskop

Gdańsk

Free transparency platform monitoring municipal councils in 13 Polish cities, tracking attendance, votes and councillor activity from official BIP sources.

Machinery of Government

Machinery of Government

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

An interactive map of UK Government structure — departments, ministers, agencies, and public bodies, with budget and staffing data.

Purge Palantir

Purge Palantir

United States of America 🇺🇸

Join the nationwide campaign to defend our privacy and stop Palantir.

AI Campaign Finance Tracker

Track AI industry political spending: super PAC contributions, independent expenditures, and employee donations to federal candidates.

Track AIPAC

Track AIPAC provides in-depth analysis and insights into the influence of the Israel lobby on U.S. democracy.

WardWatch

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

Truth In Polling

Truth In Polling

Zionsville, Indiana

Nonprofit AI platform making every bill plain-English and letting verified voters register, vote on legislation, and send weekly feedback directly to their reps.

Monithon

We develop methods and tools for a participatory evaluation of public policies by local communities and the final beneficiaries of the interventions

Open Gov Guide

Open Gov Guide

Washington, DC

The Open Gov Guide is the “how-to” resource on applying open government principles to real-world challenges.

MonitorMamdani

MonitorMamdani

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

A website for tracking promises and success of NYC mayor via public free data.

National Whistleblower Center (NWC)

For 35 years, the National Whistleblower Center has been a frontline defender of those brave enough to expose corruption, fraud, and abuse.

Safe

Safe

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA

The Safe software created by Psst is a secure digital safe haven for information.

AI Whistleblower Defense Grants

AI Whistleblower Defense Grants

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA

To address the financial barriers to whistleblowing, we’ve created a comprehensive resource and guide identifying three vetted organizations that provide pro bono legal counsel and financial grants to AI industry whistleblowers

The Signals Network

The Signals Network

San Francisco

The Signals Network supports whistleblowers to hold powerful interests to account all over the world.

Psst.org

Psst.org

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA

Psst is a non-partisan, non-profit public service that helps people bring forward public interest information.

Sudan Witness

Sudan Witness was launched in April 2023, and monitors, analyses, verifies, and archives information pertaining to human rights interferences and conflict incidents in Sudan’s current conflict.

PropagandaWatch

PropagandaWatch

Georgia (Sakartvelo) 🇬🇪

Monitoring pro-Russian propaganda in Georgia

The Common News

The Common News makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.

the Dearly Departed Dataset Graveyard

the Dearly Departed Dataset Graveyard

United States of America 🇺🇸

This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025.

Revolving Door Project (RDP)

RDP scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest.

EDIA

EDIA

Córdoba, Argentina

EDIA es un proyecto de la Fundación Vía Libre cuyo objetivo es involucrar a más personas en la evaluación de tecnologías de inteligencia artificial como son los modelos de lenguaje (por ejemplo, ChatGPT).

Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search

Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

This is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search auto-generated transcripts of Council meetings for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.

Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

A community of practice organized by mySociety TICTeC and the Civic Tech Field Guide in 2024-2025.

Access to Information Community of Practice

Access to Information Community of Practice

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

A community of practice organized by mySociety TICTeC and the Civic Tech Field Guide in 2024-2025.

Engagic

City council meeting scraping and agenda packet summarization, for the whole country

Karton revolucija

Karton revolucija

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина) 🇧🇦

Pozivamo vas sve koji niste dio raspalog sistema i koji posjeduje etičke i moralne norme i želite u budućnosti postati dio naše borbe ili na bilo koji drugi način dati doprinos da nam se pridružite. | Cardboard revolution in Bosnia

Bihus.Info

Bihus.Info – команда журналістів, юристів, айтішників і активістів, що завдають змін.

Evidence and Methods Lab

We are a technology-driven initiative that strives to make information more accessible and foster accountability in Africa’s public sector.

BIMI

BIMI

Nigeria 🇳🇬

Chat with Nigeria's Fiscal and Public Finance Data Platform with Intelligence

Open Dev Africa

"[A] network of more than 700 members across 21 countries unified in the belief that the Francophone world should have a stronger voice in the Open Government Partnership (OGP), where English-speaking countries have long dominated the conversation."

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