An open source platform aiming to engage communities and citizen journalists alongside newsroom and freelance journalists for collaborative, decentralised content verification, tracking, and debunking.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initiative designed to measure how disinformation travels across social media platforms over time.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Was a prototype to help newsrooms crowdsource better information about the communities they serve, by Wikipedians

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

RoveR is an app to help you spot real over rubbish news!

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

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

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

"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

Helping the Public Navigate a Challenging Media Landscape

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

Quod was a project to create an open database of misinformation on the web. It was created to crowdsource the difficult task of identifying and cataloging misinformation published online. You can participate by reporting misinformation you encounter online.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

DSFSG aims to enable collaboration within the data software for social good ecosystem and welcome a diverse and independent set of member projects.

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Crowdsourcing

Mozilla Rally is aimed at rebuilding your equity in your data. We allow you to choose how to contribute your data and for what purpose.

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Crowdsourcing

A 3-year census of the wild cat population in Washington, DC

• animals

• 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
• Advertising

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

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

• housing

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

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

Safeguard voters’ rights with data-driven insights. Alloy Protect is an email report that helps election protection groups defend voter rights through transparent, timely access to voter file insights and data.

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Voter assistance tech

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

• extensions
• Facebook
• Instagram

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Academia
• Crowdsourcing

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

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

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
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourced mapping of cultural locations in Sweden

• culture
• history
• place-based

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools

Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

En 2015, Transparencia Mexicana (TM) y el Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) lanzaron la plataforma independiente #3de3 para promover y recibir las declaraciones de situación patrimonial, de intereses y fiscal de quienes competían por un cargo de elección popular.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• cities
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

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

• Mapping
• Crowdsourcing

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
• Justice tech

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

Now-defunct citizen reporting platform

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Now defunct Finnish crowdlaw platform

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Crowdsourcing

Now defunct Finnish legislation crowdsourcing site

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowdsourced public input in a social and engaging process.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Mix core ideas from survey research with new insights from crowdsourcing. Add a heavy dose of statistics. Stir in a bit of fresh thinking. Enjoy.

• Surveys & polling

We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

The easiest way to contact your government

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Communicating with the government

The Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

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
• Govtech
• Civic data

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

• Crowdsourcing

OpenPaths, a secure datastore for personal location info.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

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.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

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

• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Organising community involvement with road safety on a grand scale

• road safety
• speeding
• Vision Zero

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Crowdsourcing

by the City of Denver

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing