Brand resources repository for Govdirectory - a crowdsourced and fact-checked directory of official governmental online accounts and services.
Govdirectory aims to become a global directory of government agencies and their online presence by utilizing Wikidata. Wikidata's community, sourceability, versioning, and potential custom tooling that we create will ensure that not only should the information be correct but when it isn't, because of vandalism or something else, users will be able, and suggested, to validate the information. The goal is for this directory to be useful to journalists, web-archivists, researchers and many others, certainly including regular citizens.
Use files here as-is, or as templates, for branding purpose of material related to Govdirectory. We encourage nominative use of media to describe the Govdirectory project, but be be careful as not to make it seem Govdirectory endorses something without first clearing it with the maintainers.
For now, the maintainers have the final say in all matters, but we are taking all opinions from contributors into consideration. When the community grows, we are planning to shift to a governance model with shared responsibilities. Besides pinging us in issues, pull requests and discussions, you can also reach us on Mastodon where we are @ainali and @abbe98.
Govdirectory participated in the Unlock accelerator program program (original application).
During the accelerator, which ended in October 2021, we defined a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) to: "As an MVP we want to create a working website where people can search, filter, and add data about Swedish and British public institutions and their social media accounts."
Specifically, we want to acknowledge all the help our coach Fabian Gampp gave to us. Besides general good mentorship, we wouldn't have had such a bold direction of the design of the website, and many of the resources here, without him.
We are looking for people like you to contribute to this project by suggesting improvements and helping develop it. Get started by reading our contributors guide.
Please note that this project is developed with a code of conduct. By participating in this project, you agree to abide by its terms. Please be lovely to all other community members.
This repository and all contributions made to it are licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication if not otherwise stated within a file or directory.