Civic & Public Life

An independent digital atlas for exploring AmaZulu heritage through people, places, events, sources, clans, and family histories.

A free browser arcade pairs three political games with a soundtrack, music video, comic, and platform explainer.

A Chicago campaign-finance ledger tracks contributions linked to Beal Properties’ owner and local aldermen and mayoral candidates.

An independent public-data project maps past power-project outcomes and estimates how likely a new project is to get built at each California substation.

An interactive explainer apportions a tax payment across Hong Kong’s 2026/27 budget categories and links figures to official source documents.

A resident-built guide explains Holiday Island, Arkansas’s transition toward one city government, including its proposed sales-tax vote, projected costs, service changes, and next steps.

A 2026 almanac tracks reported outside spending across Iowa’s five federal races, with links to source filings.

Macro Grants offers small grants, usually $1,000–$25,000, for projects it finds useful, underfunded, or simply fun.

An interactive tool helps nurses shape observations about workplace AI into a comment they can submit to the FDA.

An interactive map presents a minute-by-minute reconstruction of 7 October 2023 in the Gaza envelope, drawing on reporting, testimony, footage, and official records.

A Spanish-language satirical simulator lets visitors search pretend rentals across ten cities, then face the competition and paperwork of trying to secure a home.

Plain Ballot Maryland explains the proposed amendment by translating its 69-word ballot sentence into plain language and comparing what votes for and against would mean.

A public dashboard surfaces unusual air, heat, rainfall and wildfire conditions across cities, with map and list views.

A publication comparing city-by-city public-safety and policy data, using public records to calculate rates per resident.

A Nevada County volunteer guild offers hands-on construction learning tied to fire-resilient homes, water storage, and local trail infrastructure.

A course research project compares solid-waste policies across eight countries and regions through an interactive map, policy records, and recycling exercises.

A student-run Texas A&M political-risk desk publishes country assessments, dated forecasts, and a public record of scored calls.

A free directory for finding AI tools and initiatives used in humanitarian aid and international development.

A district-by-district guide to reported outside spending in California’s 2026 U.S. House races, with links to FEC records.

A Portuguese-language public-data site compares social-benefit coverage, payments, population and job growth across Brazilian municipalities.

Look up a Chicago address to see street-sweeping dates and sign up for a free email reminder the evening before.

Taiwanese studio FANSEE presents interactive projects for children’s storytelling, community health care, and cultural exhibitions.

A local election project lists candidate-specific questions about development, housing, conflicts of interest and council decisions, with space for candidates to answer.

A public directory of U.S. nursing homes that turns federal inspection, fines, staffing, and ownership records into plain-language pages.

A public-records project turns Syracuse vacancy, code-complaint, and permit files into neighborhood and ZIP-level views.

WetlandEar proposes an acoustic-monitoring system for Kazakhstan nature reserves, using solar field stations to identify bird calls and send event details to a ranger dashboard.

A public-records site offering state crime maps, report-by-report maps for 20 cities, and a tracker of unexplained deaths.

A citizen-sighting project for otters along Busan’s Oncheon Stream, with observation zones, photo submissions, and guidance for watching safely.

A guide to reported outside spending in Pennsylvania’s 17 U.S. House races, with district navigation and links to filings.

A grassroots campaign asks agencies to assess a dedicated eastbound left-turn lane from 38th Avenue N into Cornerstone / Plato Academy in St. Petersburg.

A public research archive organizes computing history through regions, languages, labor, communities, infrastructure, and sources.

An unofficial, searchable, GPS-aligned map of Nashik’s modified 2015 development-plan draft.

A multilingual first-year-in-America resource for Haitians, with a free checklist and a paid guide to paperwork, housing, work, and rights.

A Santiago de Compostela association for traditional Galician music, singing, dance, and community events.

A Pollença association shares its Mallorcan traditional music, performances, history, and community activities.

Founded by FC Cincinnati midfielder Brian Anunga, the foundation connects youth soccer programs in Cincinnati and Yaoundé, Cameroon.

A resident campaign opposing Acorn’s proposed additional housing in Blackawton, with sections on drainage, road access, planning history and ways to contribute evidence.

A Milwaukee public-data catalog that organizes datasets, reports, and visualizations for people to search and download.

A public comparison tool for air pollution and heat- and cold-stress estimates across cities and towns worldwide.

An interactive presentation of an offline acoustic-AI system intended to detect illegal logging and alert forest rangers in areas without cellular service.

A companion for checking official DOE Air Pollutant Index readings across Malaysia and predicting tomorrow’s value for a chosen station.

A public dashboard brings together lake conditions, weather, alerts, safety information, schools, and town updates for Lago Vista and nearby communities.

A California directory for finding MEHKOs—permitted home kitchens—and resources for cooks exploring how to open one.

A free participation project where daily short answers help sponsors fund organizations working in Okinawa.

A Korean-language site gathers Father Moon Kyuhyun’s writings, photographs and biography alongside updates from a peace organization and a regional alternative news outlet.

A no-name check-in for Ukrainians with ADHD or who suspect they have it, with a personal card to share and a count of participants.

An association’s charter asks bars, cafés, and restaurants to commit to preventing sexism and harassment toward their staff.

The project presents literary and artistic work by prisoners of conscience in Egypt and their families, with sales intended to support the people who made it.

A Korean-language map for checking whether nearby places fit a person’s mobility conditions.

A Mumbai nonprofit organizes treks, rock climbing, children’s nature camps, and conservation work.

A Croatian lookup and comparison site for newborn support, nursery costs, and childcare availability across 556 cities and municipalities.

A set of weekly and update-based newsletters covering changes in trucking authority, nursing home records, and child care citations.

A Brazilian election-transparency project asks volunteers to photograph polling-station tally sheets and compare accepted submissions with results imported from the TSE.

A community map for reported coqui activity across Maui neighborhoods, with address or TMK search and markers for report status, owner stance, and managed zones.

A city-by-city tool for finding neighborhoods and polling places where Lula’s first-round vote count fell most between 2022 and 2026.

PUFFINS is a proposed SmallSat mission that would use ultraviolet spectropolarimetry to study interstellar dust and magnetic fields.

It analyzes water-loss audits Texas utilities already file with the state, showing estimated losses, costs, and comparisons with similar utilities. The first scorecard is free.

A Dallas–Fort Worth bi+ outdoor group lists activities and offers a form for members to host hikes, rides, kayaking trips, and more.

A guide to disclosed spending in North Carolina’s 2026 federal Senate and House races, with links to FEC filings.

A public proposal for keeping workers paid and supported when AI replaces their jobs, with a pledge for individuals and businesses.

A public map and directory of California speed-camera locations, speed limits, street segments, and rollout status.

A Chinese-English historical archive organizing accounts of political events, resistance, people, and victims under one-party rule in China.

A Port Orford and South Coast newsroom homepage combining local stories with TV and radio schedules, weather, tides, and sports.

A demonstration page sketches an education network for Wyoming learners to carry identity, courses, and credentials across public colleges.

The site invites Brazilian insurance brokers to report reversed commissions and aggregates submissions in a public dashboard.

A political-money tracker presenting a sourced timeline of financial dealings involving Donald Trump, his family and associates, with date filters and documentation labels.

A community system for joining local Chanukah menorah parades and sharing their routes, music, and updates.

A bilingual community hub for learning and playing traditional Chinese mahjong in Central Florida.

A source-linked guide to Colorado’s proposed mail-ballot ID amendment, covering verification, correction rules, costs, and arguments.

A flood-monitoring dashboard for Pattani’s hospital network, bringing together river, dam, rainfall, and hospital-status information.

A delivery-worker safety hub with location search, private incident reporting, and a human-assigned alert scale.

An investigative archive says it traces suppliers, subcontractors, dependencies and cost overruns behind public projects using procurement and other public records.

A Costa Rican company presents a conservation program for native stingless bees, alongside educational tours, honey products, and environmental education.

A scrolling awareness campaign explains the continuing ecological effects of fuel-oil pollution in the Black Sea.

An open-beta news and curiosity game that frames headlines, humor, and conversation as ways to find common ground.

An unofficial dashboard presenting a preliminary account of a reported M7.7 Azuero earthquake, with impact reports, shaking maps, live headlines and district-level exposure estimates.

A Vietnamese cemetery information site presents a grave-lookup route, burial breakdown, historical context, and memorial activity for Hòa Phong.

A website documenting a named online creator’s statements about Jews, his income sources, and biographical claims, with links to source material.

A Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research facility for evaluating mosquito-control tools and supporting entomological research.