Liberation technologies

Freedom of Information Act Documents: List of documents, cases on RTI in USA

CHRI: Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative: A site with lot of useful materials on right to information

RTI laws in 5 countries – comparitive analysis: Examiles RTI laws in United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and

Your Right To Know: A citizen’s guide to freedom of information act: Website of Heather Brooke, a journalist based in London.

Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact: This report by the World Bank takes an in-depth look at how ICT – particularly broadband and mobile – are impacting economic growth in developing countries.

Oxford internet institute webcasts: Webcasts of events at Oxford internet institute

DISE–District Information System for Education: The DISE dataset created by the worldbank is a major source of standardized information on schools in India.

Health Information of India: Health statistics for India.

Corporate Watch UK: small independent not-for-profit research and publishing group which undertakes research on the social and environmental impact of large corporations, particularly multinationals

CorpWatch: investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. We work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.

Secondary education management information system at NEUPA: MIS on secondary education managed by NEUPA

Globalization, information and developing countries: A selective guide to information resources: List of watchdogs of multilateral organisations, corporations, etc.

Legislating RTI – A guide by UNDP: A detailed guide on preparation, legislation and implementation of RTI

Sunlight Foundation: The foundation is, “a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for open government globally and uses technology to make government more accountable to all. We do so by creating tools, open data, policy recommendations, journalism and grant opportunities to dramatically expand access to vital government information to create accountability of our public officials”. The website is a great source of information on open data policy, political financing and a range of other topics in the intersection of technology and transparency.

Apps4Africa: A contest to build mobile based technologies that could be used for social purposes in Africa

I paid a bribe: The innovative crowd sourcing platform by Janaagraha to crowd source reports on demands for bribes in India. The website has inspired many such initatives internationally.

Public Database Indexing Guidelines: North Carolina is mandated by law to maintain an index of all electronic public records with description of available data. This is a guideline prepared by the State government to prepare an index of the databases

Climate Collaboratorium: Seeks to use the collective intelligence of people to develop a plan on climate change. It’s a project of center for collective intelligence at MIT.

Technology for Transparency Network |: A collection of projects that use technology for promoting transparency. The case studies can be accessed by the country.

Bus Routes.in: Website providing information on bus routes in Madras using information on routes gathered by crowd sourcing.