Civic & Public Life

A Fayetteville preservation campaign is raising money to move an 1840s house down Hay Street rather than see it demolished.

A public guide to Southborough meetings, upcoming agenda items, and decisions, with plain-English issue summaries and links to relevant moments on video.

A Portuguese-language publication follows quarrels, interruptions, and contradictions in Brazil’s Congress through its official transcripts.

An independent Bangladesh social-impact organization working across public-interest research, participatory community projects and documentary storytelling.

A Portland street-safety campaign asks the city to make 20-foot intersection sightlines the default instead of handling corners one request at a time.

A visual explainer about the Bali starling, its conservation, and community protection on Nusa Penida.

An independent tracker maps satellite hotspot detections across Indonesia alongside air-quality information for cities in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

Art Ecology connects historic landscape paintings to the places they depict, then pairs them with photographs of those locations today.

The project publishes free, reproducible analyses that connect government datasets to questions about cities and public life.

A London football charity project connects tournaments and cultural events with free practical workshops and aid for families in Albania and Kosovo.

A six-stop, roughly five-minute guide to Toronto’s mayoral race, the city’s responsibilities and budget, and 53 candidates’ published words.

Plaid Orca presents a bilingual care-finding tool for health centers to embed on their websites, helping Medi-Cal patients understand a change in coverage and find next steps.

A free guide filters farm grants, cost-share programs, loans, and tax rules for Washington and Oregon farmers, with information on whether drones may qualify.

An interactive guide to Florida’s FY 2026–27 state budget, pairing resident tax estimates with budget details, vetoes, local projects and state comparisons.

Five Falls Women’s Welfare Trust documents its work to clear and reshape Puduthangal Lake in Tambaram so it can hold rainwater again.

Open-source meeting software for local governments that connects agendas, minutes, votes, recordings, and searchable transcripts.

A citizen-run service that helps Guadalajara residents find their SIAPA water-rotation zone and get free cut alerts through Telegram or a calendar.

Azzouzet catalogs and maps olive trees it identifies as millennial, with a way for visitors to submit sightings and photographs.

An independent monitor presents official water-level and flood information for localities across the Río de la Plata basin, with context for downstream communities and the Buenos Aires area.

A Florida-focused lookup for public water providers, with source-linked drinking-water records and an experimental rating.

An environmental education guide for sorting waste and caring for specific spaces at the National University of Colombia’s Bogotá campus.

A Cedar Park campaign site documenting local Flock Safety license-plate-reader deployments, their public-record trail, legal questions, and resident comment options.

A public accountability page tracking reporting and unresolved questions about a woman struck at a political rally in Youngstown.

An interactive pixel-art wall where people can light a candle in memory of a baby lost during pregnancy or infancy.

An independent public-data site for exploring Singapore HDB resale prices, with block-level history, market views and buyer tools.

Interactive data stories compare 33 cancer types across incidence, deaths, survival, research activity, future burden, and rarity.

A Korean-language site ranks universities and elementary, middle, and high schools using public data, with measures ranging from tuition and admissions to reading and care-room use.

An independent public tracker for Seattle tree-removal notices and permit-tree records, with searchable notices, a map, and daily updates from City of Seattle open data.

A receipt-level tracker of food and drink expenses reported by Katy Padilla Stout’s congressional campaign to the FEC.

A Singapore haze tracker pairing PSI information and a neighborhood photo timeline with practical public-health guidance.

A bilingual resource finder for community support, public programs, and local organizations.

A Korean-language news and fact-check desk serving article checks, legal changes, and national indicators to people and AI agents.

A bilingual directory of chess tournaments, clubs, libraries, academies, and learning options in Bogotá and nearby towns.

Parallax presents a research atlas and finished analyses on congressional oversight and the documentary and legal record of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

A Fort Worth student-led initiative gathers flowers left after events, rebuilds them into small arrangements, and delivers them to dementia-care and senior-living communities.

A Brazilian civic-data dashboard for exploring lawmakers’ attendance, spending, projects, and campaign costs.

A state-by-state guide to utility shutoff protections, emergency next steps, and help paying heating or cooling bills.

UWCSEA East students document a pilot-operated underwater vehicle designed to monitor shallow coastal reefs.

A Hebrew-language, source-linked timeline of warnings and events before and during October 7, framed around a defamation lawsuit by former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar against Benjamin Netanyahu.

Garabato turns official notices and laws into short explainers about what changes for people, with practical cards for Spain’s 29-N elections.

A local campaign page explains proposed changes to London’s 74 and C3 bus routes and invites residents to sign a petition and respond to TfL.

An interactive map and dashboard exploring Scotland’s electricity flows, wind curtailment, network capacity, and energy projects.

A public tracker ranks 45 grocery staples by price changes against overall inflation, using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

A Chicago campaign asking the city to ticket overflowing dumpsters on weekends, when the site says garbage can sit until Monday pickup.

A Lyon-based political cabaret project uses puppets, music, satire, and public events to bring current affairs into the room.

A local campaign opposes routing the proposed BECI transmission line through Bear Valley, arguing Wisconsin policy prioritizes existing corridors for new lines.

A Tennessee nonprofit fund buys fresh milk and delivers it through local food pantries to families who need it.

A volunteer-run girls’ cricket academy offering beginner training, bats, and a team to join, with no fees or trials.

An independent parent campaign documenting Blue Valley’s plan to end K–8 Chinese immersion in fall 2027 and helping families take part in the debate.

A PDF remediation service for public agencies and health centers, covering forms, scanned documents, agenda packets, and other posted files.

An independent reporting and advocacy site about mold in gym saunas, with location-specific cases, state complaint guidance, and a petition for inspection mandates.

A manifesto and contact point for an effort to connect builders in Nepal with visibility, community, and capital.

A free set of Philadelphia urbanist event calendars, with category subscriptions and a feed users can build from selected organizations.

An independent literary space in Berlin listing readings, conversations, music, and its 2026 program.

A memorial and family campaign documenting the care they say their 11-month-old son did not receive, and asking for answers.

A document-based reporting project examining Arizona’s public universities, their finances, and the Board of Regents.

An independent tracker organizes Arizona State University stories on campus safety, athletics, labor, legal issues, and federal probes.

Ballotta is a free, early-test tool that says it can show Travis County voters the races and propositions on their November 3, 2026 ballot, then help them make and print a personal crib sheet.

Craft Scotland brings together a directory of Scottish makers, craft events, maker stories, opportunities and resources for the contemporary craft sector.

A campaign page presents a proposed sequence of AI-assisted phone outreach, with three sample conversations set in New Taipei neighborhoods.

An Arabic-language searchable archive of incidents it attributes to Houthi forces in Yemen, organized by date, governorate, category, victims, and cited sources.

A San Diego civic project maps local governing bodies and lets visitors rank which public-records request it should file next.

A Lowcountry daily jail-record site combining booking rosters from three counties with a filterable blotter, jail guidance, victim resources, and name-based alerts.

A news app that says it combines reports about the same event into one story, with links to every source.

A volunteer-run Pune trekking community organizes group outings, shares independent route guides and documents past treks.

A local information hub for Sawyer County, Wisconsin, with original news, booking records, weather, alerts, scanner audio, and county source links.

A Japanese-language newsletter describes tracking changes to specified skilled worker and planned employment-for-skill-development rules across official sources.

This Korean-language reference explains common investment, crypto, impersonation, romance, and side-job scams, with a searchable name index and glossary.

An Algarve mountain community documents its permaculture land project, seasonal gatherings and invitation for residents and visitors to apply.

Towpath is a permitting and code-enforcement system for small municipalities, with an iPhone field app designed to work offline.

An interactive archive of Vienna’s district-level election results, with graphics and analysis dating back to 1947.

A paid local-information service that organizes proposed developments, rezoning cases, city decisions, and meeting videos in one map.

A Thai-language research and discovery site documenting local Buddhist architecture and Vietnamese-influenced temple craft in Nong Khai.

The site pairs allegations about dumping on land associated with NY-21 Democrat Blake Gendebien with drone-photo exhibits, a year-by-year timeline, legal references and a playable cleanup game.

The site tracks daily availability figures from public charger feeds in Germany, France, Finland and Lithuania, with CSV and JSON downloads.

A Spanish-language civic initiative invites Durán residents to report local needs and says their responses will be organized by neighborhood without publishing their names.

A Greenwich, Connecticut community project lets residents submit photos and details about utility poles they consider unsafe, unstable, or unsightly.

照護尺 is a Taiwan long-term-care guide with tools for estimating allowances, copays, transport support, assistive-device subsidies and residential-care subsidies.

An Arabic-first platform for Saida residents to request local help or offer an item, skill, time, or ride.

A Persian-language reporting site organizes news, articles, and case pages around mass-complaint cases, with options to submit a public report or follow up using a case code.

The Frederick County Society of Model Engineers operates a 56-foot HO-scale model railroad inside a restored C&O horse car in Walkersville, Maryland.

A prototype for emergency responders to enter patient details once and check multiple emergency rooms’ capacity at the same time.

A recruitment page for a Seoul elementary-school baseball team, welcoming grades 1–5, including beginners.

A public-facing guide to campaign donations, public election funding and declared expenses for a selected group of Brazilian candidates.

A Spanish-language project that teaches people to assess AI responses, check claims, and document evidence through a six-module course.

A school community calendar coordinates 30-minute morning drop-off volunteer shifts, showing which dates still need help.

A searchable view of Spanish public-grant awards, organized by recipient, sector, issuing body, date, and amount.

A political dossier gathers allegations about John Mannion, responses to them, a timeline, and reporting about a Senate investigation whose report was not released.

TalkAm presents a Ghana-wide discussion app organized around nearby communities and topics including housing, campus life, jobs, transport, food, and events.

Natabiri presents an intelligence platform for tracking emerging signals, with a simulated Kenya 2027 election experience.

A Texas election guide presenting candidate positions by issue, with an issue-alignment quiz and coverage starting in Collin County.