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Tools directory

Software and platforms for civic participation, transparency, accountability and digital rights.

The leading open-source data management system used by governments worldwide to run open-data portals.

Open DataOpen Government

A free, open-source participatory democracy platform for cities and organizations to run consultations and budgets.

Civic ParticipationOpen Government

An open-source platform for crowdsourcing, mapping and verifying reports during crises, elections and campaigns.

Civic ParticipationHuman Rights

A privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted messaging app widely recommended for activists and journalists.

CybersecurityDigital Rights

An open-source suite for building forms and collecting field data offline, widely used by NGOs and researchers.

Open DataCivic Participation

An open-source tool by OCCRP for searching and cross-referencing large document and data sets in investigations.

TransparencyMedia & Journalism

The most widely used open-source citizen-participation platform, letting governments run debates, proposals and participatory budgets.

Civic ParticipationOpen Government

A free, open-source suite for field data collection in challenging environments, widely used by NGOs, researchers and human rights monitors.

Open DataCivic Participation

An open-source whistleblower submission system that lets newsrooms receive documents and tips from sources securely and anonymously.

CybersecurityMedia & Journalism

A mobile app that helps activists, journalists and human rights defenders document abuses while encrypting and concealing their data.

Human RightsCybersecurity