Civic & Public Life

Transit Lab publishes independent research, interactive tools, and downloadable data about New York City transit.

PriceProof tracks public contract awards for data and analytics software, alongside vendor-published list prices where available.

A student-run archive catalogues primary sources on Asian American history, from historic printed images to contemporary family oral histories.

A free U.S. tracker lets residents look up data-center projects near a ZIP code, follow local decisions, and find ways to respond.

An interactive consumer guide compiling records on 15 large multi-state medical cannabis operators, including violations, lawsuits, safety issues, debt, and political influence.

An independent Norwegian-language explainer lays out the government’s proposed 2027 budget, its income and spending, and what may change from the previous year.

An interactive neighborhood map where residents can mark places that make them feel unsafe and submit a photo as evidence.

An interactive picture of Mexico’s waste system, combining official statistics with maps and satellite heat monitoring near waste sites.

A public financial explorer breaks down Davis Joint Unified School District spending, staffing, funding sources, projects, and school closures.

A connector for AI assistants to answer voters’ questions from participating newsrooms’ voter guides, with quotes, attribution, and links back to the source.

An English-language reference for Israel’s October 2026 election, combining polling, party information, election history and a coalition-building tool.

A sourced live tracker of a suspected pneumonic plague case in Irkutsk, separating official statements from reports while following contacts, response measures, and the timeline.

It tracks which datasets, models, speech corpora, treebanks, and tools exist for Indigenous language groupings in Mexico.

A country-level tracker of AI’s effects on jobs, infrastructure, and access, with dated indicators and source notes.

A Greek-language project that cross-references public documents to identify recurring people, companies, and procurement patterns.

Arjun Dugar describes a recipe engine built for The Breakfast Revolution, which designs nutrient-conscious breakfasts for schools and communities in India.

A Spanish-language game asks players to attribute real statements from Spain’s Congress to the left or right, with links to official records.

The Mountain View Fellowship of Oracle documents the lives of Curly and Annie Neal and the hotel they built, while organizing support to preserve the building.

A French-language collective archive catalogues queer radio shows, web radio, and podcasts connected to LGBTQIA+ lives and movements.

A bilingual citizens’ initiative tracking voting information for Serbian citizens in the UAE ahead of Serbia’s 25 October 2026 parliamentary election.

An interactive comparison of endorsements from Bay Area voter guides across candidates, propositions, and other contests.

A guide for Minnesota voters that shows the races on their address-specific Nov. 3, 2026 ballot, alongside registration and voting instructions.

A church candy-drive tracker lets donors choose between two collection bins, compares bulk candy prices, and spells out the rules for a slime showdown.

A source-linked guide to U.S. immigration enforcement, combining trend data, policy and court updates, reporting, state resources, and emergency help.

A Romanian volunteer-run NGO describes its dog rescue, sterilization and adoption work in Vrancea County.

A Korean-language site gathers media fact-checks and lets readers look up claims or article links, with outlets’ verdicts mapped to a shared six-step scale.

A free community gallery collecting photographs, video, music, writing, and drawings about Marghera, Venice, from yesterday and today.

A Mauritius-focused guide to economic policy, with sourced indicators, comparative briefs, and practical local tools.

An interactive map compares two Portland Public Schools closure scenarios and shows where students and programs would move.

A Prishtina cycling club site covering its teams, events, race history, youth academy, and women’s program.

An open atlas compares more than a thousand measures of human progress with their historical trends, including a subset judged potentially exposed to AI.

A searchable public register connecting Ahmedabad roads, bridges and other structures with their contractors, contracts, costs and reported condition.

An opposition site assembling allegations about Marshall’s medical practice, votes, public remarks, donors, and Kansas voting dates.

An advocacy project invites people to skip eating octopus, with sourced science and menu-spotting aids.

A source-linked tracker of a suspected pneumonic-plague investigation, pairing a case map with reporting and context.

The foundation says it is offering five grants to recent graduates from Omuo-Oke Ekiti, wherever they live.

A free housing-research map for Sofia that brings together building, transport, school and urban-planning information from official open-data sources.

A Spanish-language explorer of votes in Spain’s Congress of Deputies, with topic and party comparisons, official-source links, and a voter quiz.

A public fact-checking feed that labels disputed posts, explains its reasoning, and links readers to source receipts.

A search tool for finding Arkansas legislative committee meetings, testimony, speakers, bills, and documents.

The Diocese of Little Rock’s guide connects Catholic teaching on death and stewardship with practical estate-planning steps and documents.

A neighborhood-searchable directory of Black-owned businesses in St. Louis, spanning 26 categories.

A fan-run campaign wall collecting public reactions, photos and memories in support of a sustainable Formula 1 return to Sepang.

Build More Playgrounds proposes connecting public land, imaginative builders, and donors to create extraordinary public playgrounds.

CivicBuilds presents a searchable explorer of Chicago building permits, with filters for work type, dates, estimates, and contractors.

A community information site documenting proposed data centers in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties, West Virginia, and their potential local effects.

A local campaign urging voters to reject a proposal involving up to 30 acres of Dorset town land at Raptor Lane.

An independent tracker gathers open-source signals about disease outbreaks and presents scored assessments alongside reporting from named sources.

A searchable directory of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit cultural institutions across Canada, with filters for place, category, and status.

A Marietta, Georgia publication covering local news, public safety, schools, events, and practical information for residents.

A reference wiki collects sourced articles about Nha Trang, Vietnam, its bay and islands, and the wards that replaced the former city.

A community discovery site for finding and documenting wheelchair users’ passability experiences, with a dedicated path for hotel bathrooms.

A map and country-by-country tracker that summarizes what protests are about, what demonstrators want, and whether events are ongoing.

A Palos Verdes guide brings together local school, city, and community events with dates and information for the Nov. 3 election.

A homeowner petition asks the Riverbrooke association to call a special meeting to review financial and governance questions.

A Pakistan-based couple’s field-reporting project covering destinations, roads, local reviews, livability surveys, and civic issues.

A Syrian-language platform for reporting local service problems, attaching evidence, and following complaints toward resolution.

A rights-reference page for Venezuelan police encounters, with scenario-based legal citations, a fine calculator, and an advertised offline mode.

A Brazilian presidential runoff tracker with state and regional views, plus an optional Pix scoreboard for visitors backing either side.

An arts organization in Upper Egypt presents its work across theatre, training, production, artist support, and cultural exchange.

A proposed offline neighborhood network for check-ins, help requests, and local notices when internet service is down but power remains.

A free handbook for working, living, and moving to the UAE, with practical guides, checkers, and calculators.

A Serbian-language directory of diaspora obituaries and memorial notices, searchable by country, city, or name.

A museum in Talitsy devoted to Russia’s narrow-gauge railways, with historic equipment, visitor information, and rides on a preserved railway branch.

A Michigan House District 60 accountability page connects reported lobbyist expenses involving Rep. Joseph Aragona with alcohol legislation that followed.

An independent project plans a roughly 30-part game series about real people in the Second World War, starting with Brest and drawing on books and documents.

A local newsroom covering Duluth, Georgia, with reporting, practical community guides, event listings and school scores.

A planned free WhatsApp alert service aims to tell residents when a waste truck reaches their street.

A shared plan for a one-day church event in Lima, covering team tasks, borrowed supplies, venue requirements, and a minimum budget.

A residents’ initiative opposing a proposed hotel and apartment development at the Orłowice quarry, with information and printable materials for people concerned about water, wastewater and roads.

A satirical, non-partisan game that asks players to govern Brazil for 30 days as one of two fictional presidents.

RioUruguay.info tracks the Uruguay River’s level at Salto with recent measurements, trend windows, and a level chart.

An interactive lookup for voters in Oneida, Herkimer, and Madison counties, showing the election and government districts associated with a location.

A forthcoming free app for reporting public-space problems in Guyane, from illegal dumping to broken streetlights.

An open archive of UFO/UAP disclosure research, combining public documents, an evidence-graded claims audit, a timeline, and dossiers.

A free reference for checking water service line responsibility by state, city, county, or utility, with repair-preparation guides.

A Hong Kong platform listing volunteer opportunities, community events, and workshops by date, district, and activity type.

An interactive exhibition map and seven-part visit route examining French perspectives on Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.

A community campaign documents concerns about nearby land clearing and asks for answers about the Manzer Street spring in Mission, BC.

An event page describes a New York press conference for a truck carrying microprinted Epstein files and calling for their further release.

A local flood-monitoring page combining water levels, dam information, rain radar and resident reports for Kanchanaburi.

A UC Riverside student research project invites people to rate customer-service bots across eight dimensions, from reaching a human to privacy.

A Spanish-language platform that says it lets readers consult and compare election programs, source documents, and proposals by topic.

The service compares a commercial property’s stormwater charge with public records and, when it finds a supported mismatch, offers help preparing a correction request.

A Gabon-focused public directory for artists, cultural workers, organizations, venues, and events, with search and an attestation-verification form.

A browser-based dashboard for exploring Brazilian election results by polling place and electoral section.

A pilot workspace for organizing information, documenting decisions, and tracking water-recovery projects in the Tula–Endhó corridor.

An interactive tracker of plague-related reports, with status labels, approximate locations, dates, and links to sources.

A South Carolina Democratic Party campaign site opposing Alan Wilson, organized around seven exhibits and a separate Sources page.

Bruitparif presents noise measurements, transport-noise maps, studies and practical guidance about the sound environment in Île-de-France.

The site presents a photographic record of Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand’s Capitol office, which it says was found closed during checks on 252 business days.

Tryvo presents a youth-focused way to find nearby activities, short trade tasters, and local volunteering.

A Utah-focused community site where people vote on local favorites, from parks and burgers to public bathrooms.

An independent news publication covering Laughlin, Bullhead City, and nearby communities along the river.

A registry that says it compiles animal-cruelty convictions from public court records and published reporting, with a separate section for pending charges.

A local project presenting a radio mesh for neighbors in Bryan, College Station, and the Brazos Valley to use during storms, outages, and everyday life.

A one-page guide presents 14 purported California ballot measures, their backers and spending, plus a plain-English questionnaire that returns a YES/NO lean.

An independent archive organizing university cases, institutional responses, source records, and anonymous reader accounts.

A personal archive about a dispute over care services in Hannan and Sennan, Japan, linking court materials, municipal documents, transcripts, and audio.

A Swiss public-interest research site covering public spending, procurement, lobbying, and political influence.