Resources: Citizen Transparency Projects from Around the World

Scrapes information from Canadian parliamentary hansard. Maintains database of voting records for Canadian parliament members.

Collects Canadian federal government contract disclosures from over 100 government websites into one standard repository.

A non-partisan site to track the Canadian Federal stimulus spending.

Site allows users to create 5 min. slices of Canadian parliamentary video feeds, to link to on blogs and newsgroups.

Tracks UK parliamentary bills. Maintains database of UK parliamentarians and their voting records.

Automatically collects documents on the US Congress from multiple sources.

Databases are accessible in machine-readable format. Acts as a data source for other sites, such as OpenCongress and MAPLight.

Collects government financial disclosures from multiple sources, stores them in a common format. Maintains databases on campaign contributions, expenses, and personal financial disclosures.

Databases are accessible in a machine-readable format. Acts as a data source for other sites, such as MAPLight, below.

Sorts campaign contributions from the OpenSecrets database into interest group categories. Allows users to visualize relationship between contributions and votes.

Allows users to add comments to sections of bills before congress.

Provides social tools for users to track and share bills being debated by congress. Allows users to add tags to bills.

The inspiration for FixMyStreet.ca, this UK site by MySociety.org allows people to file reports on potholes, broken lighting, and unsafe pathways.

Recueille des informations sur un quartier de sources multiples: * Dossiers municipaux (inspections de restaurant, applications de changement de licence) * Rapport de criminalité des postes de police locaux * Liste Perdue et Retrouvée, bulletins de Craiglist

Hosts discussion groups at the neighborhood level for several US cities.