Democracy’s Library is a stepping

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“We know there’s an information flood, but it’s not necessarily all that good,” Kahle said. “It turns out the information on the Internet is not very deep. If you know a subject well, you find that the best information is buried or not even online.”

Democracy’s Library is a move to make governments’ massive investment in research and publications open to all.

Kahle added: “ stone toward citizens who are more empowered and more engaged.“

The first steps of Democracy’s Library are available online at


Photo by Kirk Walter.
Carl Malamud is a man with a mission: To make public phone number database information freely available to the public.

For more than three decades, Malamud has not just talked in theory about why government materials should be online—he has taken action to digitize and upload massive amounts of data himself. He is the reason many laws and judicial opinions, corporate filings and patents, Congressional hearings and government films are at the fingertips of the American people.

“Our democracy, particularly today, depends on an informed citizenry, with so much misinformation and disinformation,” said Malamud, 63, founder of the nonprofit organization Public Resource Org. “We have to learn how our government works, what our fundamental values are, and we have to communicate that with our fellow citizens.