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Explore 90 projects in the Archives category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

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PROTESTORY!

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

Germany
youth

Hansard

The official report of all Parliamentary debates. Find Members, their contributions, debates, petitions and divisions from published Hansard reports dating back over 200 years.

London
2018

Archiving local political websites

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

USA

LocalView

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2023
YouTube

Visual Index

This tool lets investigators sift through thousands of hours of footage to surface evidence of human rights abuses and other significant findings in minutes rather than weeks.

OpenArchive

OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence. We conduct co-research, build tools, and create guides that advance human rights every day.

Urban Archive

Urban Archive is a technology nonprofit that creates new connections between people, places, and historical institutions.

155 Rivington Street, New York, NY, USA
city, history, Sustainable cities and communities, apps, place-based

GovInfo

GovInfo is free U.S. Government information for all. GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.

Capitol Hill
2016
United States (federal government)

Government Websites of the World (GWOW)

The GWOW project’s goal is to preserve the current government websites of every country in the world to ensure perpetual access to online government information for an informed citizenry and democratic resilience.

San Francisco