Okay, so we all get that we can surf the web and find amazing tools for organizing, collaborate and blog about our campaigns. But when it comes to creating secure searches, protecting our privacy and organizing online things get a little harder. Many activists brush aside these protective measures because they don't think they have the skills - this can be risky and unwarranted thanks to Hacktion Lab.

An initiative of the Center for Public Integrity, the Ujima Project strives to bring transparency to the actions of those at work in developing countries.

Essentially, the Ujima Project exists as a central storehouse for information regarding the activities of governmental bodies, non-governmental organizations, and multinational corporations working the developing world.

While information contained in the Ujima repository is available elsewhere, the project's databases serve as an easily accessible, categorized, and centralized collection.

http://ujima-project.org/

The World Bank's Open Data Initiative aims to provide all users with access to World Bank data sets.

http://data.worldbank.org/

http://data.worldbank.org/news/a-year-of-Open-Data

The Scientific Commons is an English/German language project that is attempting to create the largest publicly accessible database of scientific publications in the world. Unlike other online journal databases which provide only abstracts for free viewing, articles indexed by the Commons have full-text searchability without a paid subscription.

Publications are extensively cross-referenced, and the social and professional relationships between authors are displayed. The project uses an opensource protocol for indexing data, and can be easily personalized using RSS feeds.

The Scientific Commons is a project of the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland