Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.

• extensions
• Facebook
• apps

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

Helping the Public Navigate a Challenging Media Landscape

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our browser plugin, which sends us the ads you see on Facebook.

• extensions
• Facebook
• YouTube

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Consumer watchdogging

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

• housing

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Academia

Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done.

• labor
• Amazon

• Crowdsourcing

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

• local

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

In January 2022, CIR launched the Eyes on Russia project to collect and verify videos, photos, satellite imagery, or other media related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is simple: to provide the world with timely and reliable information concerning the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and its people.

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Crowdsourced mapping of cultural locations in Sweden

• culture
• history
• place-based

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Activism aggregators

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map until November 2009, when young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. We

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

By providing a neutral report of what happens in court, trial monitors can help ensure that rights are respected and abuses exposed.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Watchdogging government

Procurement is complex, but finding great suppliers shouldn’t be. Join thousands of public procurement professionals rating and reviewing suppliers on Procurated.

• Crowdsourcing
• Govtech vendors
• Procurement

The easiest way to contact your government

• Govtech
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic tech catalogs

Microsoft and the Clooney Foundation for Justice have teamed up to create TrialWatch, an app designed to help human rights advocates more easily monitor legal proceedings around the world.

• apps
• human rights

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Democracy needs an upgrade

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

• LINE

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

Open source research data repository software

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

From bikes to scooters and everything in between, dockless mobility offers cities a range of new options and challenges. Ride Report is your comprehensive toolset to manage emerging mobility services.

• apps
• cycling

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.

• civic features
• Apple

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Citizens Tracker of Government COVID-19 Measures

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Based on the idea that if more people start taking action when sexual harassment happens in their presence, we can end this epidemic.

• apps
• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things for the (probably) upcoming general election

• 2024 elections

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.

• Wikipedia

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

GoGetta has New York’s most up-to-date service information on food, personal care, shelter, and clothing.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing

Founded in 2008, the Sentinel Project is a Canadian non-profit organization that assists communities threatened by mass atrocities worldwide through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology.

• human rights
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

ipaidabribe.com is Janaagraha's unique initiative to tackle corruption by harnessing the collective energy of citizens.

• corruption

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Monitoreo ciudadano de datos sobre ciclismo urbano en Cochabamba

• cycling
• mobility

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

To help level the playing field, CDM created Contratados, a platform launched last week to let migrant workers share Yelp-style ratings and reviews of their experiences with different recruiters and employers.

• labor
• migration
• human rights

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Watchdogging government

U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

We train youth to produce high quality data about community assets that everyone can use to improve the human condition.

• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

Organising community involvement with road safety on a grand scale

• road safety
• speeding
• Vision Zero

• Crowdsourcing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

by the City of Denver

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Report street-fixing issues in Hungary

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Collect the place-based data you need using our easy mobile tools and web dashboard. Create your own survey or engage around community health, safety, commercial development, blight, historic resources, and more. Quickly export your data for Excel or as a Shapefile.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

Report transportation hazards and dangerous traffic behaviors in our community

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing