Volunteer with us and use your research, mapping and digital skills to support humanitarian agencies in crisis response.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case. The objects are all taken from the background of an image with sexually explicit material involving minors. For all images below, every other investigative avenue has already been examined. Therefore we are requesting your assistance in identifying the origin of some of these objects. We are convinced that more eyes will lead to more leads and will ultimately help to save these children.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We leverage both AI and Human Expertise to allow everyone to check facts, understand News sources and content, empower truth and consolidate responsible Brands and Media in the MENA region.

• extensions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing
• Factchecking

Project to crowdsource political advertising online

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

OpenPaths, a secure datastore for personal location info.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Based on the idea that if more people start taking action when sexual harassment happens in their presence, we can end this epidemic.

• apps
• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things for the (probably) upcoming general election

• 2024 elections

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

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

Supporting Disaster Response. With a Single Click!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Expose voter suppression and election interference as you witness it to a live map with SeeSay2020.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

GoGetta has New York’s most up-to-date service information on food, personal care, shelter, and clothing.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Founded in 2008, the Sentinel Project is a Canadian non-profit organization that assists communities threatened by mass atrocities worldwide through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology.

• human rights
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

una plataforma para activar y canalizar la participación de tu comunidad

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Help unearth some of the UK's earliest weather records for British Science Week

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Monitoreo ciudadano de datos sobre ciclismo urbano en Cochabamba

• cycling
• mobility

• Civic data
• Communicating with the government
• Crowdsourcing

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• COVID
• Open innovation

#AlertePollution

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Tell us about your collisions and near-misses, so we can build the evidence base for improvements, together

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

We train youth to produce high quality data about community assets that everyone can use to improve the human condition.

• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

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

Report street-fixing issues in Hungary

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Collect the place-based data you need using our easy mobile tools and web dashboard. Create your own survey or engage around community health, safety, commercial development, blight, historic resources, and more. Quickly export your data for Excel or as a Shapefile.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Media

Sie haben geholfen, Trump zum Präsidenten zu machen. Sie haben den Brexit befeuert. Jetzt spielen sie auch im deutschen Wahlkampf eine Rolle: sogenannte "Dark Ads". BuzzFeed News macht diese dunklen Anzeigen nun transparent.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Report transportation hazards and dangerous traffic behaviors in our community

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

crowdsourcing environmental data across Victoria.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• animals

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

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.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

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

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

We crack the SCHUFA

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

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

• Crowdsourcing

Leverages opt-in wearables health data to try to predict the spread of the pandemic

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

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

• women
• Gender Equality
• Wikipedia

• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

Create greener communities and explore our urban forests, together.

• Life on land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Hände waschen, Abstand halten, Daten spenden - Ihr Beitrag gegen Corona

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Help build the free database of UK election candidates

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

• apps
• police violence
• youth

• Civic data
• Communicating with the government
• Crowdsourcing

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

• apps
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

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.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

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

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.

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

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