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Consumer watchdogging efforts use tech to bring transparency and accountability to private sector actors. See also brand organizing, which are specific campaigns targeting corporate brands.

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Good Jobs First

Good Jobs First

Washington, DC

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

What To Fix

We build innovative tools, methodologies, datasets and partnerships to further the diagnosis of systemic risks to internet integrity.

Landlord Mapper

Landlord Mapper

Chicago, IL

Landlord database & interactive map to promote property ownership transparency in rental markets

Tazama

Tazama

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Open source transaction monitoring software

The Advocacy People

The Advocacy People

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The Advocacy People support people in advocating for themselves with the NHS, or who are in care, under section in a hospital, secure unit or in the community, among other self-advocacy groups.

Signal Conso

Report an issue to a company, find out about your rights with France's Fraud Control.

Global ISDS Tracker (Investor-State Dispute Settlement)

This website tells a story of how a little known legal [corporate tribunal] mechanism is enriching fossil fuel corporations with public money, delaying climate action and threatening our future.

PoliDashboard

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

EU Transparency Centre Reports Archive

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

Open Terms Archive

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

Marks Out of Tenancy

Marks Out of Tenancy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Join the thousands of renters rating and reviewing their landlord, letting agent and rental properties.

Digital Rating: отчёты о прозрачности компаний в России

Эксперты проекта Digital Rating исследовали политики и практики популярных веб-сервисов Рунета по раскрытию данных взаимодействия с госорганами, а также соблюдения прав граждан на свободу информации и приватность.

Tow Zone Alerts

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

DataIgualdad

DataIgualdad

Latin America

Revisa aquí cómo impacta la evasión de impuestos en las vidas de los habitantes de América Latina

Bobbele

Search over 120'000 companies to see their controversies and hierarchies! Random Company

Who owns what in NYC?

Who owns what in NYC?

New York City, NY, USA

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

Penplusbytes

Established on the 18th of July 2001, Penplusbytes is a not-for-profit organization driving change through innovations in three key areas: using new digital technologies to enable good governance and accountability, new media and innovations, and driving oversight for effective utilisation of mining, oil and gas revenue and resources.

Center for Digital Democracy

The Center for Digital Democracy’s mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness, and community.

Open & Disclose

Open & Disclose

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Open & Disclose aims to provide a platform for media organisations, journalists, columnists, and commentators to make public their interests, with the aim of strengthening institutional credibility, accountability, transparency, and trustworthiness.

Widely Viewed Content Dashboard

In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.

Digital Lab Fellowship at Consumer Reports

The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world

Mastercard City Possible

City Possible™ is a new model for urban innovation in which a global network of cities, businesses, academics and communities work together to make the world’s cities more inclusive and sustainable.

Ad Observer

Ad Observer

New York University, New York, NY, USA

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

Xnet Institute For Democratic Digitalisation

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy

European Network of Corporate Observatories (ENCO)

ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.

EU Whistleblowing Monitor

The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months.

Algorithm Watch

Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes

Algo Transparency

An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.

Corporate Accountability Network

Accountancy is in crisis. The Corporate Accountability Network exists to identify the causes of that crisis and offer solutions to it.

Beneficial Ownership Data Standard

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard enables transparency by providing a solid conceptual and practical framework for collecting and publishing beneficial ownership data, resulting in data that is interoperable, more easily reused, and of higher quality.

Open Ownership

Open Ownership

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.

Parvaznama

By receiving, storing and analyzing flight data, the boards of the country's 17 airports and calculating flight delays help passengers make a data-driven choice

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