Civic & Public Life

A Guildford West residents’ campaign against a data-centre project, combining planning-document excerpts, proximity details and ways to contact decision-makers.

A public-data neighborhood site for Trinidad, DC, with local news and events alongside block-level details like trash day, schools, transit, permits and 311 requests.

An independent neighborhood dashboard bringing together Van Ness news, events, transit, and practical block-level information from public data.

A community publication for Marathon, New York, combining sourced local reporting, residents’ letters, cartoons, and links to other local coverage.

An independent neighborhood site brings together local news and events, transit information, public-data maps, and practical details for Chinatown blocks.

A 3D map and timeline reconstruct the Gen-Z demonstration in Cologne on October 31, 2026, using public videos, livestreams, media reports, and police statements.

A resident-facing campaign site opposing a proposed Global Stack data center at the Lake Perris Fairgrounds, with petition links, board-meeting information, and ready-to-send messages.

A searchable archive of U.S. Coast Guard vessel casualty and wreck reports, transcribed alongside their original scans.

An independent newsroom covering government, development, transit, schools, culture and events in Mableton, Georgia.

A Tallahassee civic tracker compares Blueprint infrastructure promises with project status, and lists upcoming City Hall decisions and ways to participate.

A public directory of lead service line replacement programs, utility data, state rules, and a calculator for estimating a homeowner’s share of replacement costs.

A searchable register that sorts publicly announced information-leak incidents by the kind of data exposed and the number of people affected.

A volunteer group cares for an eleven-acre willow wetland through surveys, coppicing, litter picks, and walks.

A community app for requesting a volunteer walking companion, with a discreet SOS feature and links to emergency services.

A practical guide to adding emergency contacts and medical information to a phone’s lock screen—and finding that information on someone else’s phone.

An independent neighborhood guide combining local news and events with transit arrivals, block-level services, and public-data maps for Stadium-Armory, DC.

A Portuguese-language explainer maps the Banco Master scandal, its financial exposure, and the investigation around it.

An interactive map lets Atlanta-area residents check their address against data-center sites and view a study of nearby home sales.

A free directory for searching Tanzania’s primary and secondary schools, with school-level NECTA results and filters for region, council, ownership, and school type.

A Ho Chi Minh City art-tech collective connects computational art and education with projects on Vietnamese language and coastal folklore.

The site announces First Night Akron’s return on December 31, 2026, and presents historical material from earlier editions of the city’s New Year’s arts festival.

The Leweston Working Group documents the school’s sudden closure and coordinates efforts by parents and supporters to explore reopening it.

An independent neighborhood site bringing together Logan Circle news, transit, street activity, public data, and lookups for your block.

An unofficial map of San Francisco small businesses featured on Mayor Daniel Lurie's Instagram, presented as a cereal-box parody.

A filterable database records how Russian-language scientists, science communicators, and bloggers have publicly positioned themselves on Russia’s war against Ukraine since February 24, 2022.

A searchable record of congressional votes from 1789 through 2026, with tools to explore members, roll calls, comparisons, and voting patterns.

An independent neighborhood dashboard brings together local headlines, events, transit arrivals, curb permits, and block-level details for Washington, DC’s U Street area.

A public registry for animals in Stavropol Krai, showing what each needs and how residents can help without donating money.

A Madrid cultural agenda and map collecting concerts, theatre, exhibitions, talks, film, workshops, and more.

A student-led initiative describes water filtration and electricity-free evaporative cooling systems for Sudanese schools.

Pakshinota is a browser side panel for Indian government offices that takes dictation, reads case files, drafts official text, and fills portal forms in an officer’s language.

A welcoming music-club site for learning instruments, finding bandmates, making original music, and sharing performances.

An independent campaign asks Nebraska football fans not to buy tickets or attend the Nov. 21 Ohio State game in Lincoln.

A virtual republic centered on trans identity and self-determination, with a voluntary citizenship process and commemorative documents.

A volunteer group in Iruma, Japan, runs study support, children’s meals and community spaces.

A Palestinian nonprofit working to grow East Jerusalem’s tech community through skills training, founder support, research, and public programs.

A memorial and information page about Bob Hardesty’s 1981 murder, with routes for sharing information with investigators.

An online guide explains workplace organizing, worker rights, and how coworkers can pursue a negotiated contract.

A free voter-matching tool that compares your answers with candidates’ public positions in covered 2026 races.

A source-linked map and directory of public figures, institutions, allegations, investigations, arrests, and resignations in Serbia.

Ori is a Spanish-language project for learning to verify news, including a browser extension in development that aims to show how a story was made.

A search and map service for finding proposed homes, stores, and other projects in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware using county planning filings.

An independent local outlet for Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, combining sourced news with an events agenda, resident notices, and local directories.

A San Francisco voter guide lays out ballot measures, their costs, and the arguments and endorsements around them.

Weinon is a community map for reporting strays, searching for lost pets, and finding reviewed vets and care places in Lebanon.

Y3S presents a vision for artist-and-maker gathering spaces in Portugal and Mindelo, Cabo Verde.

A searchable comparison of posted cremation and funeral prices from 19 providers, with each listing’s price-list date.

A public map tracks train delays, cancellations, service notices, weather and passenger reports across rail networks in Spain.

A youth platform for sharing art, stories, films, designs, and cola-farming work from Mbu Village in Cameroon.

A country-data atlas for comparing prosperity, living conditions, and opportunity across economies.

The Tsoro-o-tso San Development Trust presents community-led work in Tjwao language preservation, San cultural heritage, education, and research.

A Ghanaian foundation working on emergency-care training, safer referrals, advocacy, and the BOAME emergency-response app.

A multilingual declaration proposes lowering the pressure of innovation competition for one year, while protecting essential work and making time for recovery, deliberation, and sharing existing gains.

A public ranking of U.S. electric utilities that compares customer outage time with residential power costs.

A public dashboard breaks down Brazilian federal deputies’ parliamentary allowance spending by person, party, and expense category.

A renter-authored timeline of repair issues at an Eltham home, with dated email excerpts, reported work orders, and the renters’ account of each issue’s status.

A public observatory maps train positions published by Renfe and documents their sources, freshness, coverage, and capture history.

BallotFly describes an address-based guide to the races and measures on a voter’s ballot, with plain-English explanations and sources for its claims.

Ndahunu presents a system for giving homes in the Comoros short, GPS-derived addresses that can be shared by message and found on a map.

A public directory of missing, sighted, and found pets, paired with a Telegram bot that says it compares animal photos across local groups.

A free Victorian election guide pairs a 12-issue swipe quiz with party positions and an electorate-and-MP lookup.

A Brazilian civic-data site for exploring municipal revenue, spending, transfers, food prices, and legislative activity.

A searchable scorecard of House and Senate members measured against the Democratic Socialists of America’s legislative program, with a delegation map, bill list, methodology, and CSV export control.

A reference dashboard collecting FOMC decisions, member votes, officials’ remarks, meeting dates, rate indicators, and a Fed sentiment index.

Three volunteers keep a casual weather and tide log for a small harbor, adding readings when someone walks down to the water.

A free, open-source web app for municipalities, associations, and volunteer coordinators to record requests and find suitable helpers.

A student-led Maryland site combines local forecasts, school-operations information, commute risk, and weather-based school-day predictions.

Kandili helps people follow planned power cuts in their estate, with alerts by Telegram or email and calendar reminders.

A free Dumaguete tech community for people building with technology, from developers and designers to students and no-code makers.

A searchable directory of restoration and conservation grants for nonprofits, community groups and other project applicants.

A Shiroli youth organization documents village water-conservation, tree-planting, and wildlife efforts.

A set of emergency communications guides and a county-by-county directory for Washington community networks and preparedness groups.

An independent neighborhood site gathers local headlines and events alongside transit arrivals, block-level information, and public-data maps for Palisades, Washington, DC.

Poshane describes a platform for planning afforestation programmes and tracking tree survival in Karnataka, including inventories of plantations already in the ground.

A resident-run noise log for 2Midtown, where neighbors can record disturbances and follow the building’s complaint effort.

A volunteer-run rescue and rehabilitation group in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, caring for disabled, elderly, abandoned, and abused dogs and cats.

A searchable tracker of Colorado General Assembly bills and Denver-metro city ordinances and resolutions, using official titles and summaries.

A public board groups UK household alerts into seven lanes, from power and cyber to weather, travel, government and payments.

Guillermo Gonzalez’s Senate campaign offers a voting planner for voters in Kern, Kings, Tulare, and Fresno counties.

A public comparison of posted prices for spay and neuter procedures, vaccines, and microchips at 20 veterinary clinics.

An election-eve campaign page for TX-31 candidate Justin Early, built around an invitation to Congressman John Carter for a public conversation.

A Korean-language project page documents support for school meals and education in Kenya, alongside water-well projects in Malawi.

A volunteer-run Kaohsiung cat rescue shares profiles of cats seeking adoption, its adoption process, and ways to help.

O Movimento Sociocientífico Brasileiro reúne pessoas de diferentes áreas em torno de conhecimento aberto, software livre e participação pública em ciência e tecnologia.

A CMS for cities, counties, school districts, and special districts that presents accessibility checks, Git publishing, alerts, meetings, forms, and resident-facing search as one platform.

An investigative politics site tracking money, pardons, contracts, and tax breaks with links to sources.

A community project promoting gift-economy ideas in the East Bay, with free-resource listings, local events, and related essays and media.

An interactive experience explores digital risks faced by people affected by natural or man-made crises.

A Fukushima association describes a community-funded model for stocking school restrooms with menstrual products.

A volunteer project for exploring Toronto data from your street and neighbourhood to the whole city, with topics including cycling and public records.

A small collective says it distributes free masks, rapid tests, and menstrual supplies in its local area.

A county archive site connects town histories, local records, and a rural-history preservation initiative.

A Portuguese-language project presents an audit of official TSE files for every ballot box in Brazil’s 2026 presidential election, alongside state maps and vote-transfer analysis.

A free tracker of House and Senate stock trade reports, with members, tickers, trade details, filed amount ranges, and links to original disclosures.

A Filipino-language Metro Manila flood dashboard for road passability, commuter reports, and river and dam alerts.

Pano Languages presents a Yawanawá dictionary project with vocabulary, grammar, community-authorized songs, and audio access planned for book buyers.

An initiative connecting practical support, research, and shared learning around more humane rodent management.

An independent Spanish-language guide to legal firearm procedures for civilians in Mexico, organized around routes for home ownership, club shooting, hunting and inheritance.

A league hub for season schedules, game results, standings, player statistics, and history.

A contemporary-art venue in Lomé, Togo, presenting exhibitions, resident artists, events, and visitor booking.

A community foundation in Punta de Mita, Nayarit, focused on beach cleanups, surf opportunities for local children, and shared public spaces.

A Black Film Week campaign invites Canadian theatres to mark the 80th anniversary of Viola Desmond’s 1946 stand against segregation.

An independent forecast of the 7 November 2026 general election, presenting chances for party votes, seats, electorates, list MPs and majority arithmetic.

A forthcoming blog from a Hancock couple plans to cover local government and civic decisions in Michigan’s Copper Country.

A Virginia justice-data project says visitors can look up defendants and explore court outcomes, crime trends, and related cases.

A free, multilingual guide to Vienna’s government processes, with tools for understanding letters, filling forms, finding offices, and tracking deadlines.

An evidence-rich explainer of “gerontonomia,” the proposed political economy in which ageing electorates help sustain stagnation.