Technology for (investigative) journalism

Journalism is based on gathering evidence. Evidence is data. No matter if it is public data, official statements, off the record talks or plain rumors, this data has to be stored, linked, analyzed, filtered and eventually visualized to create the groundwork…

Civic tech product management on Github

How is civic tech project management different from any other kind of project management/coordination? After all we also have deadlines, specific budgets (usually), external contributors (sometimes) and wide audiences we want to reach — so what’s different?

Data standards: What are they and why do they matter?

Data helps us better understand the reality we…

Monitoring and engaging with democratic processes

A subjective guide to CEE-based parliamentary monitoring websites

Parliamentary monitoring tools were some of the first tech solutions developed for governmental transparency…