Urbanpinion is a citizen engagement platform that lets city government, community leaders, architects and activists easily set up a landing with an interactive map to collect citizens suggestions, receive analytics based on collected data and make later on right decisions for city development.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Sharing information about Thailand and its development with the world.

• Civic data
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Election monitoring project of volunteer digital response teams for the upcoming Kenyan elections in August 2022

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

Our intention with the protest tracker was to map public discourse around GotaGoHome protests and it's spread around Sri Lanka.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis
• Public sentiment tools

Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

An interactive map to show the billions worth of properties that went from state-owned to privately owned in recent years, together with K Monitor

• real estate
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

This new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Poynter's global guide on existing attempts to legislate against what can broadly be referred to as online misinformation

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic maps

Communalytic is a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

CivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

The conversations that trend on internet platforms shape our world in consequential ways, from who we vote for, to what news we read, to how we respond to a pandemic.

• X (Twitter)
• Reddit

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Case studies. The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

PesaYetu helps journalists, researchers and activists transform their work with in-depth county-specific information.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

Radar is a project which uses a combination of algorithms and manual research to find posts related to three themes over a wide variety of social media platforms in Brazil.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Raskrinkavanje.ba platform was launched by the team of the "Why Not" organization, which has many years of experience in fact-checking, through work on checking the accuracy and consistency of statements of public officials, and monitoring the fulfillment of election promises on the Istinomjer platform.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

rbutr tells you when the webpage you are viewing has been disputed, rebutted or contradicted elsewhere on the internet. Last used 2013.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

Pressland is a first-of-its-kind data-intelligence platform that maps global media production in real time.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

By the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.

• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

Launching LCR Analytics…

• Data visualization
• Civic maps
• COVID Engagement Projects

A global map ranking countries by their Freedom of Information laws

• free speech

• Civic maps
• Freedom of Information
• Report cards and audits

This site gives you a clever way to explore historical aerial imagery of New York City. You can click and drag on the map to "scratch off" the historical imagery and reveal the same location's present-day imagery. By Chris Whong

• history

• Civic maps
• Games and gamification

Africa’s first investigative environmental journalism unit, which combines traditional investigative reporting with data analysis and geo-mapping to expose offenses and track crime syndicates

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

A global interactive by the New York Times visualizing the local climate risks for the entire planet

• Climate action

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Enter your location and learn about the most popular song in your area, plus those nearby. By The Pudding.

• Media
• Civic maps
• Filter bubble poppers

A great overview map and gallery of the global trend toward open streets

• mobility

• Civic maps

Clearing mines & Helping Countries Recover “We use a combination of machine learning on satellite imagery, GIS and field surveys,” says Luan Jaupi, who heads up information and communications technology at HALO

• landmine clearance

• Mapping tools
• Satellites

596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• Specific campaigns

One Dollar Lots documented each time NYC sells or plans to sell a vacant lot to developers for $1. This tool can help New Yorkers better shape how dollar sales of public land impact our neighborhoods and city.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

A world map displaying the locations of indigenous peoples whose lands have been taken

• Civic maps

Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.

• animals

• Media
• Civic maps

Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.

• history

• Civic maps

A global map of malaria rates over time

• Good health and well-being
• malaria

• Civic maps

DEDA helps data analysts, project managers and policy makers to recognize ethical issues in data projects, data management and data policies.

• toolkits
• resources

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

NYCommons helps New Yorkers impact decisions about public land and buildings in their neighborhoods. It is a collaboration between Common Cause/NY, the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center, and 596 Acres.

• land

• Civic maps

"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins

• Google
• Zero hunger

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

Distributing air sensors to volunteer cyclists to map pollution data throughout Lisbon Sensores distribuídos. Cinco dezenas de ciclistas vão andar a medir a poluição atmosférica – Lisboa Para Pessoas

• cycling
• air quality

• Specific campaigns
• Smart Cities and sensors

Filter and aggregate data to provinces or districts without code or mapping software

• Mapping tools

This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative

• Civic maps

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Mapping tools

White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.

• white collar crime

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

Soils Revealed is a platform that visualises how soil organic carbon stocks have changed globally, and how they might change in the future.

• soil
• Climate action

• Civic maps

PLACE is a non-profit data trust that creates and stewards hyperlocal mapping data for a membership community that is open to all and serves the public interest.

• Data schemas and standards
• Mapping tools

Explore data on refugee community locations and resources in the United States. Built by Graphicacy with UNHCR.

• refugees

• Civic maps

Real-time HD maps for autonomous driving

• Mapping tools

Add, view, or discuss places of value to your local community (including Assets of Community Value and assets owned and run by the community).

• local
• neighborhoods

• Graveyard
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

• housing

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing