"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
• Crowdsourcing
• Fight disinformation

The Digital Literacy Curriculum, focused on disinfo detection, was developed with the Finnish government for integration in schools, supported by the EU Parliament.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

DisinfoPortal.org was the Atlantic Council's one-stop interactive online portal and guide to the Kremlin’s information war.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

• Challenges

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work. Hopefully, projects and contributors will find this helpful in figuring out the best options for them.

• guides

• Get funding

Guatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.

• trainings

• Media
• Podcasts
• Factchecking

A collection of open source digital public goods sorted by Sustainable Development Goals

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic tech catalogs

Lutece is an open source platform developed by the City of Paris to help you develop digital solutions.

• Govtech
• CRM
• Issue reporting

This site is an effort of City of Paris to provide a budgetparticipatif.paris-like website to help other cities to get their own participatory budgeting process.

• Participatory budgeting

Join a worldwide movement to catalog every open source civic tech project

• Github

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

New here? geojson.io is a quick, simple tool for creating, viewing, and sharing maps. geojson.io is named after GeoJSON, an open source data format, and it supports GeoJSON in all ways - but also accepts KML, GPX, CSV, GTFS, TopoJSON, and other formats.

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Open source networks

Consul is one of the leading open source citizen participation platforms. It's built on Ruby on Rails and deployed in dozens of cities around the world. It was originally built by the City of Madrid.

• CONSUL

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Govtech vendors

"Democracy as a service" voting app

• apps

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

The Rust Foundation is an independent non-profit organization to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem, with a unique focus on supporting the set of maintainers that govern and develop the project.

• Open source developer networks

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,500+ sites in 40 languages.

• Open asks

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

• animals

• Games and gamification

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Incubators

A Geolocation Technology Company

• Mapping tools

Foundation for Public Code's livestream show and podcast

• Shows and films
• Podcasts

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Peer networks
• Meet the others
• Open source developer networks

Open Source Citizen Participation Platform in Korea

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

g0vhk 受台灣「零時政府」（g0v.tw）的理念啟發。目的是透過技術解決社會問題，以項目形式推動社會進步。以開放數據為例，透過開放源碼程式編寫 (Open Source Program) 或群眾外包 (Crowd Sourcing) ，令不同範疇的數據透明化，解決資訊不流通問題，以擴大公民的知情權。

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

The Open Source Peer to Peer SMS Tool

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• High-tech COVID Interventions

A curated list of 186 criminal justice data and technology projects.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• CONSUL

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Our Launchpad is a month-long, hackathon-inspired event that facilitates citizen volunteers working together on civic-focused, open source projects.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

To bring together civic-minded software developers to use technology to innovate in public services, by creating open source solutions to address the needs of citizens

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

IBM-sponsored challenge for creating and deploying open source technologies to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Start where you are

• Data visualization
• Graveyard
• Mapping

Crash Data Explorer is an open source analysis and engagement tool for urban pedestrian and bike safety.

• cycling
• mobility

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) create a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunity in the IoT market, accelerating industry innovation and helping developers and companies create solutions that map to a single open specification. The OCF’s vision for IoT is that billions of connected devices (devices, phones, computers and sensors) will communicate with one another regardless of manufacturer, operating system, chipset or transport. With the OCF fulfilling this promise, anyone – from a large technology company to a maker in their garage – can adopt the open standards of OCF to innovate and compete, helping ensure secure interoperability for consumers, business, and industry.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

StoryWeaver offers open source libraries for children's books in their native languages.

• Adjacent Fields
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Foundational layers

Free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

• Decidim

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A data collaborative company. Using open source tech & data trusts to enhance impact, inform decisions, & increase equity of opportunity.

• The Tech
• Civic data

Up-to-date information about Stadt Jülich's city politics - by Meine Stadt Transparent, the open source council information system

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic tech catalogs

Solving Problems the Open Source Way

Code for All Global Summit

• The People
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments. Our software is free and open source. Most of our users are people working in humanitarian crises, as well as aid professionals and researchers working in developing countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The purpose is to solve social problems through technology and promote social progress in the form of projects. Taking open data as an example, through the Open Source Program or Crowd Sourcing, data in different fields are transparent, the problem of information circulation is solved, and the citizen's right to know is expanded.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

SmartParticipation is an open source e-participation platform based on Drupal and designed to offer an effective and adaptable environment for informed online discussion.

• The Tech
• Digital participation platforms

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government