OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

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

• Graveyard
• Data visualization
• 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

Darcy will allow everyone to run their own federated social media instance – without having to worry about technology, moderation or legal compliance, because Darcy will take care of that for you – if you want!

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Sandstorm is an open source platform for self-hosting web apps

• Engagement tech

The Digital Connector is an open source piece of software, which allows data specialists to efficiently connect data sets into a common format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• COVID
• Open innovation

This is an open source hardware project to allow makers and the public to assemble mechanical respirators (aka. Ventilators, breathing machines) and/or intubation kits that could be used by medical professionals.

• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

the home of online investigations

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

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

Secure messaging, anywhere

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

An open source mapping platform for custom designed maps. Our APIs and SDKs are the building blocks to integrate location into any mobile or web app.

• Mapping platforms

Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.

• Media
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

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
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Solving Problems the Open Source Way

We build open source software, digital infrastructure, and governance frameworks to enable public-private collaboration and the seamless exchange of transport data.

• cities
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• cities

• Support civic projects with tech

Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Code for All Global Summit

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Rocket.Chat is free, unlimited and open source. Replace email, HipChat & Slack with the ultimate team chat software solution

• commercial

• Organize campaigns
• Internal communication and coordination

the official public purchasing information portal on open procurement in Ukraine

• The Tech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Martus was a free, open source, secure information collection and management tool that empowers these rights activists to be stronger in their fight against injustice and abuse.

• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard
• Digital security and privacy

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

This prototype is being developed as a Proof of Concept for the protocol the eVoting group of the BFH (Berner Fachhochschule) is working on, in partnership with Canton Geneva.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

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

Civicbudget is an open source participative platform enabling any organization, public or private, to launch a consultation process.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

CONSUL DEMOCRACY Foundation is a new organisation whose mission is to manage and continuously develop the largest open source digital democracy platform – CONSUL.

• CONSUL

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Tenders Guru is a website that allows to monitor public procurement processes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Procurement oversight

Messaging flows for campaigns and organizations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

Since its inception three years ago, CivicSpace (formerly CivicSpace Labs) has made a mark as a relatively prominent open source software developer serving nonprofits, political organizations and campaigns, and online social communities.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Taskforce is a volunteer group working at the intersection of technology and politics.

• Organize campaigns

The Open Source Peer to Peer SMS Tool

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

CiviCRM is an open source CRM built by a community of contributors and supporters, and coordinated by the Core Team. CiviCRM is web-based software used by a diverse range of organisations, particularly not-for-profit organizations (nonprofits and civic sector organizations). CiviCRM offers a complete feature set out of the box and can integrate with your website. CiviCRM is created and used by a global community of tens of thousands of individuals and organisations. Our vision is that 'all organisations – regardless of their size, budget, or focus – have access to an amazing CRM to engage their contacts and achieve their missions'.

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers
• CRM

At the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

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

Beckton is an open source tool for creating a new group of paying members, but only if enough people agree to join to make it worth while.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open science

Open source, open data, and open government.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Fighting air inequality through open data and community

• air quality
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

Développer ensemble des solutions open source pour la démocratie.

• Working groups

a modified fork of the open source Discourse discussion platform meant to host general legislative conversations between citizens and representatives

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

A NON-PROFIT HOME FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

Supporting the Global Move to Open Technologies

• Open source networks