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Platforms that allow a variety of people to contribute data to a common collection. See also: Participatory Sensing, "an approach to data collection and interpretation in which individuals, acting alone or in groups, use their personal mobile devices and web services to systematically explore interesting aspects of their worlds ranging from health to culture." - IDS UCLA

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Field Tasking Manager (FieldTM)

FIeldTM allows for coordinating field mapping activities in Open Mapping campaigns. While there are existing field mapping applications, there is a lack of efficient tools to coordinate these activities. The FMTM builds on the HOT Tasking Manager and other mapping applications to provide a more streamlined and organized process for completing field mapping tasks.

StreetComplete

This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.

Mapillary

Access street-level imagery and map data from all over the world. Fill in the gaps by capturing coverage yourself.

SketchMapTool

The Sketch Map Tool is an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge. The tool has a variety of applications. For example, do you want to work together with people in a community to map their experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood in a paper-based format, but still be able to quickly analyse the results digitally? Then, the Sketch Map Tool is exactly what you need!

Mapeo

Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.

MapRoulette

MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way

Smart Reporting and Referral (SmartRR)

SmartRR is a virtual one stop shop for Gender Based Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health. We are committed to creating a safer, more supportive world for survivors and adolescent girls.

NIDOROUALMEwaAFE

NIDOROUALMEwaAFE

Chad (Tchad) 🇹🇩

Using GPS mapping technology, Nidoroualmewaafe identifies areas that do not have access to safe drinking water and shares this information with local authorities and communities to inform decision-making.

Weibo Community Notes feature (社区“附注”功能上)

Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.

FloodLight

FloodLight

Pakistan 🇵🇰

A Code for Pakistan initiative to Crowdsource the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

Undo The Firewall

Bring Independent News to Russians (by adding code to your website to display news that Russian authorities cannot block)

Eye On Corruption

Eye On Corruption

Ghana 🇬🇭

Eye on Corruption App is a mobile application which allows people to report/submit a corruption related complaint to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC).

AAPI Hate Tracker

AAPI Hate Tracker

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

WhoFundsThem

WhoFundsThem

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.

OpenLitterMap

OpenLitterMap

Cork, Ireland

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

8M LATAM

8M LATAM

Latin America

El objetivo es realizar un archivo fotográfico que muestre la realidad de la extensión del movimiento feminista, incluyendo la variedad de experiencias, testimonios y emociones que plasma el 8M en nosotras.

SocorroBot

SocorroBot

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽

SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.

Landlord Tech Watch

Landlord Tech Watch

United States of America 🇺🇸

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

digitize your city

digitize your city

Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

Digitize your city is a series of actions that seek to create a friendlier environment through the use of technology previously influenced by us and the data we consciously create and deliver.

Facts and Fakes in video

Facts and Fakes in video

Russian Federation 🇷🇺

Fact-checking video for Youtube and Rutube: displaying references to refutations, proofs and disputs of the facts contained in the video, as well as the video rating of the video and the overall channel rating.

Location Aware Sensing System (LASS) Environmental Sensor Network

LASS (Location Aware Sensing System) is an open source and public welfare "environmental sensor network system". 是一套開源和公益的「環境感測器網路系統」

Safecity

Safecity

Maryland

A crowdmap to report incidents of sexual and gender based violence anonymously.

Mob Data Thailand

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทย โดยเริ่มบันทึกข้อมูลตั้งแต่เดือนมกราคม 2563 และเปิดให้ทดลองใช้งานตั้งแต่วันที่ 7 สิงหาคม 2563

ShakeNet and Raspberry Shakes

Online community tracking earthquakes with Raspberry Shakes: Professional grade seismograph and infrasound monitors that anyone can use to record and visualize both natural and human activity.

Ukraine is calling

Ukraine is calling

Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg) 🇱🇺

We are raising €10 million to buy 112 rescue vehicles for Ukraine.

PetaBencana.id

PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.

UnmappedSmallTownUSA Mapstodon bot

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

Common Voice

Common Voice

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

HOT Tasking Manager

HOT Tasking Manager

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

OpenAerialMap

OpenAerialMap

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring

HOT's Approach to OSM Data Validation for Earthquake Response Mapping

HOT's Approach to OSM Data Validation for Earthquake Response Mapping

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

We have a four step validation process to ensure that the data created for emergencies like the current Turkey and Syria earthquake response is fit for use.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap activation Turkey earthquake

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap activation Turkey earthquake

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.

Consumer Reports Share My Story

A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills

Talk to Loop

Talk to Loop

The Hague

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

Kenya Digital Public Works

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

Panoptic - Facial Recognition Technologies Tracker

IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.

Waterbear

Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.

Air Alliance Houston

Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.

Tarjimly

Tarjimly

Mountain View, CA

A non-profit that seeks to eliminate humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees and immigrants. This service is built for people on the move and non-profit organisations.

환경재단

환경재단

South Korea (Republic of) (Hanguk or Namhan) 🇰🇷

자신이 주운 쓰레기 종류와 개수 데이터를 실시간으로 누적할 수 있으며, 플로깅을 마치면 GPS기반 소요시간/이동거리 등의 활동 정보가 ‘나의 쓰담기록’으로 저장됩니다. 어플 사용자 간 실시간 랭킹을 확인할 수 있음은 물론, 어플에 개설된 다양한 컨셉의 플로깅 프로그램에 참여할 수 있어 보다 흥미롭게 ‘지구쓰담’을 즐길 수 있습니다. (An app that lets you track your litter collection efforts)

Uli

Uli

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

Uli lets you take control over your Twitter timeline by redacting slurs, allowing you to archive problematic tweets and coordinating actions with your friends.

GigaTurnip

GigaTurnip

Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (Kyrgyz Republic)

Приложение позволяет создавать и заполнять формы для сообщения о нарушениях на выборах. Crowdsourced election monitoring app for iOS and Android

Chequeo Colectivo

Chequeo Colectivo

Argentina 🇦🇷

Es una plataforma abierta para verificar contenidos a pedido de la comunidad.

FloodLight

FloodLight

Pakistan 🇵🇰

Ushahidi instance crowdsourcing the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

The Citizen Browser Project

The Citizen Browser Project

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initiative designed to measure how disinformation travels across social media platforms over time.

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