The most-visited not-for-profit government transparency website in the world. Coming soon, contact members of Congress with our one-of-a-kind message builder.
Try OpenCongressBringing the OpenCongress model to government at any level: state, city, local, and international. We seek non-profit funding support to roll out this free public resource.
Check out OpenGovernmentWe build public knowledge about politics. Bloggers, issue-based groups, educators, and others are encouraged to re-use our open data and libre content. Link to our pages, embed our widgets, get data from our APIs, and more.
We're open-source to the core, contributors to the commons, evangelists for open standards, co-framers of OpenGovData Principles, and activists for liberation of public data. See our wish list, join our chats, check out our code, and more.
We're a tiny team with big goals for deliberative democracy. Our limiting factor isn't ideas, or a lack of information to make accessible, but rather money for web development. Your support can build amazing new open-source tools. Get in touch.
Our sibling non-profit is the Participatory Culture Foundation,
working for a fairer, more open, and more democratic media space.
Welcome to the new site of our scrappy non-profit organization, PPF, with our homepage redesigned in November and a group blog kicking off here & now. As mentioned below, we’re aiming to address the following big-picture issues with our surprisingly-flawed & undeniably-human political process: “government transparency, civic engagement, net neutrality, fighting systemic corruption, and comprehensive electoral reform.” Let’s do this thing. Continue reading →