Vision
Our vision is a world where people are empowered to engage with their government to ensure responsive, inclusive, participatory and representative decision-making at all levels.
Mission
We will enable a community powered directory where the online presence of every public organization is easily findable, queryable and trustworthy.
Built by a community
Support our efforts in creating transparency about governmental institutions and their activities online
Learn more about the communityData quality through constant curation
Based on Wikipedia's sister project Wikidata the data is constantly fact checked by a rigorous and dedicated community. With the help of tools that help monitor changes in data and entering data correctly, collectively the data can be kept up to date and accurate.
Recognition
The project won a WikidataCon community award in 2021, was recognized as a Digital Public Goods by the Digital Public Goods Alliance in September 2022 and made the finalists in the category Peace – Building peaceful and inclusive societies in the SDG Game Changes Award in September 2023. In 2024, it was selected as a champion in the World Summit on the Information Society Prizes 2024 in the category "The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development".
Acknowledgements
This project was initially supported through Wikimedia Deutschland's Unlock Accelerator. Wikimedia Sverige is graciously providing us with Matomo analytics. The data we collect is publicly accessible.