This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin. With this offer, we want to improve the transparency of the public IT landscape and invite the digital community in Berlin and beyond to work collaboratively on the development of good software for our city. Diese Seite bietet einen Überblick über Open Source-Projekte, die von öffentlichen Verwaltungen im Land Berlin entwickelt, beauftragt oder gefördert werden. Mit diesem Angebot möchten wir die Transparenz der öffentlichen IT-Landschaft verbessern und die Digital-Community in Berlin und darüber hinaus einladen, kollaborativ an der Entwicklung guter Software für unsere Stadt zu arbeiten.

• cities

• Civic tech catalogs

This new coloring book is the perfect tool for kids and adults to learn about the political landscape of the United States in a fun and interactive way.

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

We connect and support national digital campaigning organizations around the world which provide opportunities for activists to influence national and international politics.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Partner networks and coalitions

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

• cities
• streetscape
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

The Procurement Governance (PG) initiative seeks to improve the effectiveness of public sector processes by entrenching efficiency, accountability, and transparency within Nigeria’s public procurement landscape. With over 4 cardinal program areas of Access to Information, open contracting, procurement monitoring and FOI ranking, PG through strategic reform initiatives, overhauls Nigeria procurement system for improved governance and citizens satisfaction. Our PG initiative has successfully revamped public contracting conducts and access to information by improving disclosure practices of public institutions and their responsiveness to citizens demand; enhanced public service effectiveness in Africa and facilitated increased citizen participation in governance

• Procurement

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism [PTCIJ] is a non-governmental organisation, that was founded in 2014. PTCIJ] works to promote a truly independent media landscape that advances fundamental human rights, good governance and accountability in West Africa through investigative journalism, open data and civic technology.

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

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

• apps
• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Enable cities and companies to communicate clearly about curb regulations to enable better analysis, planning, and management of public space

• cities
• streetscape

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments. In reality, the total experience of a city’s air quality is a combination of highly localized as well as more regional effects that shift in intensity as one moves through an urban landscape.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform. It was designed to measure and critically assess eight South African cities' response to national targets set to upgrade 750,000 out of the total 1.2 million informal households to standards outlined in stages 2 and 3 of the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP), part 3 of the National Housing Code. These cities are: Buffalo City, City of Cape Town, City of Joburg, City of Tshwane, Mangaung, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. Open Data Durban partnered with Isandla Institute to create this living tracker that enables journalists, researchers, local government, communities, and many other user groups assess where each South African metro is at in terms of housing provision and upgrading informal settlements, supporting evidence-based decision making for city housing policy.

MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Extensive Tracxn 2018 report on the Govtech startup investment landscape.

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Building in the private sector

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Now you can be an angel investor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

a newsletter about languages and tech

• indigenous

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Foundational layers

To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Communicating with the people

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

Copcast is an open-source project that can turn any Android phone into a body-worn camera system for law enforcement, providing a more cost-effective and accessible solution for law enforcement officers around the world.

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Justice tech

This catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.

• trainings

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Create right from your phone with Google

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

aims to promote fact-based information consumption and sharing through the development of design prototypes, design guidelines, and empirical research that explores the landscape of ways to signal the credibility of information to everyday users.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

• Adjacent Fields
• Mapping
• Civic maps

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We help governments, organizations and companies understand and navigate the increasingly complex urban landscape, and work together to create a sustainable and executable vision for the future, fast.

• Social impact design firms

WanaData-Ke is a network of female journalists working on changing the digital media landscape by producing and promoting data-driven news and applying digital technologies to their storytelling.

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Data visualization

A field scan of blockchain for social good projects by the Stanford Graduate School of Business

• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

A group of coders, designers, government reps, and citizens building a better #Fresno

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Political organization focused on generating healthy physical and digital spaces for co-creation and incidence in the political landscape.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Ezolwaluko is a provincial Web platform that serves as database for initiates. Ezolwaluko is an "initiation watch" that provides citizens with information on whether the traditional surgeons are registered with the Eastern Cape Department of Health or not. On the web platfrom Eastern Cape citizens can report illegal tradtional surgeons, register to become a tradtional surgeon with the Department of Health and report initiates in trouble. Ezolwaluko is provincial available in both English and IsiXhosa

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

• cities
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard