We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

by Silvana Fumega y Fabrizio Scrollini

• reports

Mapping the videos of the US Capitol building attack

• Civic maps

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

Work with maps like never before. Build your structure, visualise data and let people interact. Use maps to get you mission fullfiled.

• Mapping tools

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

A hardware table that lets people gather around it for collective decision-making processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Hardware

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Civic maps
• Story-based campaigns

A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem

• The Tech
• Media
• Network visualizations