Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• city
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Generative AI

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.

• WhatsApp

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.

• supply chain

• Watchdogging and transparency

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Data Projects

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

• racial equity
• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Mapping
• Specific campaigns
• Location

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Budget explorers

A game where players help researchers map the human brain

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Open science

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Archives

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Communicating with the government

Report and share Violence Incidence in Nigeria directly on this platform.

• preventing election violence

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps
• Mapping

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Design

Real-time flood sensors were developed by the FloodSense project at NYU and the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC), with a goal of providing information on the presence, frequency, and depth of hyperlocal street-level flood events to a range of stakeholders, including policymakers, government agencies, citizens, emergency response teams, community advocacy groups, and researchers.

• floods

• Civic maps

The Environmental Justice Index (EJI) scores census tracts using a percentile ranking which represents the proportion of tracts that experience cumulative impacts of environmental burden and injustice equal to or lower than a tract of interest.

• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

The Colorado Broadband Office (CBO) leads the statewide effort to expand broadband coverage and quality for all Coloradans and coordinates all broadband efforts for Colorado.

• state

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

• housing

• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

A project map of Public Interest AI and related research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Public Interest Tech

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Mapping tools

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• city
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

We support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them

• Civic data
• Mapping

"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?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.

• coaching

• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard
• Nonprofit tech

Refugees as City-Makers

• city
• refugees
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Civic maps

DistrictBuilder puts the power of drawing electoral maps in the hands of the people. Redistricting can be a transparent process that represents communities fairly and prevents gerrymandering.

The Citizens Police Data Project (CPDP.co) is a tool for holding police accountable to the public they serve. By Invisible Institute

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Justice tech

Qomon is the most innovative and user-friendly Mobilization platform & mobile app that powers non-profit organizations, campaigns, movements & advocacy groups worldwide to mobilize bigger using data & digital.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024
• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Mapujeme stav korupce v ČR a aktivně přispíváme k jejímu omezování

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

Risk Assessments Made Beautiful! A framework and methodology to holistically assess an organization’s digital health, highlight areas of excellence, and provide a visual roadmap of recommended improvements.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Open database and map of recipients, donors

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

privacy filters for shared location links

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Location

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

• air quality

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

We have all the redistricting data you can use to draw or analyze Community of Interest or District maps

• gerrymandering

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Making Census Data Easy to Use

• census

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

The free and open global address collection

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Open Mapping Hub Eastern & South Africa's podcast

• Mapping
• Podcasts

A Google Earth tour of the raw material extraction that powers our tech products, by Melissa Hsiung

• sustainability
• supply chain

• Civic maps
• Walking tours

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

• floods

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

InfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers
• local

• Media
• Civic data
• Civic maps

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

• city
• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

Google Sheet with over 200 impact investors listed

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic tech catalogs

We’re here to help you understand how to get an abortion.

• Good health and well-being
• health
• women's health

• Civic data
• Civic maps