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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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Ushahidi

Ushahidi

Nairobi

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

Astrea Justice

Astrea Justice

Harare, Zimbabwe

Astrea Justice is human rights remedy mobile app that is being used in Zimbabwe and has the potential of being scaled into other countries.

Women in Red

Project to create articles about notable women that do not currently exist on Wikipedia

OpenTreeMap

OpenTreeMap

990 Spring Garden St, Philadelphia, PA 19123

Create greener communities and explore our urban forests, together.

eBird

eBird

Ithaca, New York

eBird transforms your bird sightings into science and conservation. Plan trips, find birds, track your lists, explore range maps and bird migration—all free.

Mobile Justice

Mobile Justice

Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

Election data gathering parties

Election data gathering parties

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Help build the free database of UK election candidates

iSeeChange

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

OpenDataKit

ODK lets you build powerful offline forms to collect the data you need wherever it is. Join the leading social impact organizations that use ODK to make the world a better place.

BERN app

BERN app

Burlington, VT

BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

Spot the Box

Spot the Box

United States of America 🇺🇸

Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

Hush City

Hush City

Hardenbergstraße 40, 10623 Berlin, Germany

With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.

Sprawdzamy Jak Jest

Sprawdzamy Jak Jest

Poland (Polska) 🇵🇱

a tool to crowdsource answers to FOIA request.

Zooniverse

Zooniverse

Chicago

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects.

Perimeter

Perimeter

Bay Area, California

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

AuroraSaurus

AuroraSaurus

New Mexico

First real-time map of auroral visibility based on user contributions and crowd sourcing.

Subnational Citizen Engagement

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

OpenElections

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

Popit

Popit

Malaysia 🇲🇾

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

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