Civic & Public Life

A $3 million NASA Centennial Challenge asks teams to recycle solid mission waste into usable materials on the Moon.

An AI-assisted photo-identification project tracking individual blacktip reef sharks across the lagoons of French Polynesia.

An auditable report examining what 433 S&P 500 reporters disclose about AI spending, operating results, financial effects, and 2027 guidance.

An open-source proposal for data centers that also provide free internet, childcare, libraries, gardens, and even AI tokens for toddlers.

A civic reporting project tracking public allocations, government spending, and local conditions across Osun State, Nigeria.

A San Marino political project presenting fifteen policy proposals before revealing the people behind them.

A phone-first civic simulation in which players process the founding files of a fictional independent Alberta.

A three-week public-art programme in Maun, Botswana, combining a funded artist residency, mural festival, creative conference, and free Open Market Day.

A public directory of licensed care homes and Medicare-certified nursing homes, with inspection findings, complaint outcomes, ownership records, and licensing details.

A Salt Spring Island fundraising campaign to bring the island its first reachable public skating surface.

A cited, city-by-city database of accessory dwelling unit rules across Washington and Colorado, with a parcel lookup for King County.

A searchable database of every inventoried U.S. highway bridge, with condition ratings broken down by state and county.

An independent regional healthcare planning model turns the 2024 closure of Nashoba Valley Medical Center into a sourced dashboard of capacity, costs, EMS strain, and possible alternatives.

A citizen observatory that catalogs reported data breaches and ransomware attacks affecting France.

The research and community-art site of Sachiko Hori, a professor working between art, education, and the Yanagase neighborhood in Gifu.

A Hebrew-language civic research site that turns open Knesset committee transcripts into summaries, influence metrics, searchable records, and reporting.

A public-facing constituency site documenting Mogoditshane East’s population growth, wards, projects, news, local life, and investment opportunities.

A free, independent platform for Haiti’s 2026–2027 elections, combining equal candidate profiles, plain-language election guides, citizen predictions, and anonymous voting preferences.

A public media-literacy campaign with image, video, and audio quizzes, verification guidance, and free educational materials for public spaces.

A Madrid association for animation and illustration that organizes monthly BeerMates gatherings, art markets, talks, masterclasses, workshops, and portfolio reviews.

Y-DRT is a Shizuoka-based youth disaster-response group that teaches high-school students first aid, disaster basics, volunteer coordination, and community preparedness.

An Arizona nonprofit building care infrastructure for punk, goth, metal, hardcore, rave, faire, and neurodivergent communities.

A civil-liberties project that explains surveillance systems, examines their consequences, and develops public campaigns for accountability.

An interactive decision-simulation lab for NHS clinical, digital, and operational leaders navigating the consequences of healthcare AI.

A Japanese civic project arguing that infrastructure, environmental policy, and disaster planning should be reconsidered for an aging, depopulating country.

A community-run guide to Toronto galleries, artist-run spaces, museums, and exhibitions, organized by neighbourhood and searchable by artist, medium, or venue.

A proposed public-interest standard asking data centers to return every gallon of locally withdrawn freshwater as certified clean liquid water.

Mindestmaß analyzes federal administrative requirements to determine the minimum evidence a public service needs, then turns that finding into a proposed EUDI Wallet request.

Arena helps gated communities and residents’ associations run year-round leagues with teams, events, live scores, judging, and resident-facing standings.

A Charleston-based community for women who work on, around, or simply love the water, with meetups, maritime jobs, skills-sharing, and a WhatsApp group.

A stark, funny landing page for a proposed network of skill-sharing, tool loans, and mutual aid.

A Chinese-language project site presenting a planned cultural and educational center in Wuchuan devoted to Chen Lanbin, an overlooked Qing-era diplomatic and educational pioneer.

A free, private resource hub helping people with criminal records find work, housing, benefits, documents, education, transportation, and rights guidance.

A Beijing International Studies University student project documenting a proposal to connect Chaoyang District’s traditional Chinese medicine resources with health tourism.

An interactive model comparing 12 small island developing states with Jeju across nine weighted resilience metrics.

An editorial reference site that explains Israeli statistics, laws, court decisions, agreements, and official records with the issuing body, date, and counting method attached.

A civic platform for reporting, mapping, and tracking urban problems from potholes and fallen trees to leaks, outages, flooding, and uncollected waste.

A research program documenting the heritage of modern construction, from railway bridges and glass structures to concrete repair and industrial buildings.

An AI-augmented storytelling studio for civic groups, museums, and activist collectives, combining local signal scans with paid cohorts, field production, rough cuts, public installs, and payouts.

A public monitoring project brings together North Santiam River readings, reservoir-drawdown updates, maps, and official sources.

A carefully sourced guide to Scottish buildings, landscapes and everyday places, connected to local history, maps, archives and newspapers.

A community-first calendar of public events and activities across Sheridan County, Wyoming.

The home of a Houston youth track club serving athletes ages 7–18 across eight practice locations.

Weather It uses local UK climate data to suggest practical, costed ways for households to prepare for heat, floods, storms, and drought.

An interactive breakdown of 30,822 public donations to the Support for Lindsay Clancy's Parents GoFundMe campaign.

A moderated daily email bulletin for local news, notices, events, and neighbor-to-neighbor information in Bradford, Vermont.

A public-awareness site cataloguing automated surveillance tools, data-sharing networks, and cases involving surveillance used against individuals.

A community archive inviting photographs, documents, and recorded memories from a town with a history reaching back into British India.

Galleri K presents Norwegian and international contemporary art, with artist pages, exhibition listings, news, and visitor information for its Oslo gallery.

A digital accountability archive organized around Sara Baxter, with pages covering her timeline, political affiliations, voting record, campaign finance, donations, and ethics compliance.

A searchable journal of U.S. broadcast applications and FCC actions, with filters for radio, TV, service type, date, and local radius.