Civic & Public Life

An EPSRC-funded University of Southampton research project exploring how privacy-preserving radar could let smart devices respond to British Sign Language.

A community records project for people reporting land disputes in Margibi or Montserrado County, Liberia.

A workers’ advocacy project explains Colorado compensation rulings, the state Act, and the people involved in claims.

Owen Hollis’s column tracks policy decisions around data-center electricity demand, from federal grid dockets to state utility cases and local siting votes.

An interactive lab for comparing 116 Social Security reform options against a 2026 Trustees baseline.

A searchable map and neighborhood comparison tool for the recorded approval years of buildings across Seoul.

A Brazil-focused weather and preparedness guide, with official-alert information, forecasts, a weather map, and guides to download for offline use.

A Belgian francophone association helps older people turn a dream or meaningful moment into an experience, and invites others to help.

A volunteer-run parent network explains Coppell ISD funding, tracks district dates, and offers practical ways for families and neighbors to participate.

A sourced history of Cuban migration to the United States and the law that shaped it, organized into chapters, timelines, legal text, data, and reference material.

A practical guide to pay, workplace rights, Korean laws, and everyday life for E-9 workers in Korea.

A free collection of Israeli crisis and safety tools, from a tension-risk estimate to shelter maps, emergency-rights guidance, and earthquake reports.

Hometown Mesh designs, installs, and monitors solar-powered text networks for small towns facing power and cell-service outages.

A Massachusetts nonprofit pairs free children’s coat sewing patterns with a directory of clothing-donation drop-offs.

La campaña de socios de una asociación de Colmenar Viejo propone reabrir su bar, piscina y arboleda, con calendario y modalidades de aportación.

An event page for a participatory 4 km walk in the Quilombola community of Fumaça, Bahia, scheduled for November 28, 2026.

A sourced explainer on ocean alkalinity enhancement lays out proposed methods, evidence gaps, and risks, then offers a letter asking governments to fund research.

An independent search engine for Morocco’s official gazette, with searchable legal texts, indexed bulletins, and summaries of what changed.

GroCamp describes a seasonal children’s camp that turns underused public land into a food forest for the community.

A public database tracks published versions of Indian state GDP figures, their release dates, and their source documents.

A Seattle-focused site for reporting restroom denials, reviewing relevant law, and preparing messages to public officials.

An independent local tracker lets residents explore council requests by neighborhood or street and review activity from the city’s 19 councilors.

A digital archive of Chad’s peoples, languages, traditions, history, and cultural heritage, with an atlas, oral recordings, and contributed stories.

A searchable portal for exploring Serbian public IT and communications procurement, supplier roles, complaints, and related documents.

Layoff Simulator offers a free, fictional case to help people in Germany explore their options and rights when facing job loss.

A bilingual election map presents Malaysian results by constituency, with local news linked to the seats it mentions.

A residents’ campaign arguing against a proposed 700-home allocation on farmland at St John’s, between Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton.

A Punjabi-language invitation and archive for a qawwali gathering celebrating Sai Laddi Shah Ji’s birth anniversary in Jalandhar.

A public-finance tool that links state bond authorizations, approvals, and issued debt to source documents and funded projects.

The Conseil Inter-Africain de Philosophie brings together philosophy societies from Africa and its diasporas, with a journal, member-society directory, and plans for international congresses.

ClinicaCerca lets people search IMSS clinics and hospitals by unit number, postal code, location, or state.

A Turkish civic platform where people can post, support, and discuss ideas for addressing problems in their city or country.

An independent, unofficial Spanish-language guide to Peñarol’s candidates, lists, voting process and election calendar.

An independent guide to Homes on Wheels Alliance programs, gatherings, help for nomads, and ways to support the nonprofit.

A public dashboard for river levels, flood thresholds, rainfall, dam status, and recent alerts across Brazil’s Itajaí basin.

A Japanese-language tracker organizes public disclosures of personal-data breaches, related responses, compensation, and class-action news.

A local guide combining practical newcomer advice, service listings, city news, events, and everyday tools for Dunfermline.

A directory of concluded EPA civil enforcement cases, searchable by company, case, facility, law, industry, or state.

A Korean nonprofit focused on children’s rights through birth-registration and legal help, emergency family support, and policy advocacy.

A community campaign invites people to pay $1 for a square on a billboard of complaints about Apple’s phone ecosystem and green-bubble stigma.

A member campaign proposes three governance changes for the National Speleological Society’s 2027 ballot.

A São Paulo cycling initiative channels donations and event proceeds into Christmas gifts for children.

The documentary follows Pacific Island law students’ effort to get the world court to clarify what states owe the climate and the people already facing its effects.

A public-safety site that says it transcribes live police, sheriff, and fire radio and places calls on a county map.

A candlelit string-quartet concert in Belgrade, raising support for NURDOR and children being treated for cancer.

A public dashboard compares European electricity and gas prices, storage, renewable generation, negative-price hours, and retail costs.

A sourced, nonpartisan tracker of congressional proposals, votes, deadlines, sectors and presidential vetoes.

The Lisbon project organizes yoga, Pilates, strength and other classes, with contributions directed to local animal shelters.

A Boston-centered network links Latino professional groups, ERGs, and communities through shared events, opportunities, and sessions on ownership.

A volunteer community based in Tétouan, Morocco, gathers gifts to buy school books and supplies, then drives them to children in remote Atlas Mountain villages.

An independent guide to Ireland’s draft public-service pay deal, with a month-by-month calculator for lecturers, teachers, nurses, midwives and gardaí.

A column tracking federal and state decisions affecting police departments, sheriff’s offices, and prosecutors.

A Brazilian civic tracker for public positions ahead of the Senate president election scheduled for February 1, 2027.

An independent, parent-led review documenting youth-soccer governance, policies, communication, and player development in Saline County, Illinois.

A free weekly email covering local decisions, neighborhood changes, openings, and practical notices in San Mateo and Burlingame.

A practical guide to living in, moving to, and visiting Sharjah, with local information, area guides, and a cost calculator.

It sets up custom shops where schools and groups can sell photo cards and prints, with a share of sales going to the group.

Steeplr presents a directory and analysis of Texas congregations, with cited information on their leadership, services, beliefs, programs, and changes over time.

A countywide calendar of events in Olympia, Lacey, and other Thurston County communities.

The atlas maps 91,299 Italian churches and presents illustrated, sourced profiles for a selected set.

A regional network for marine-protected-area and locally managed marine area practitioners, with a map, field resources, training, exchanges, and policy work.

A simulated working demo for a proposed national greenhouse-gas reporting system spanning Federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.

A local news site publishing select-board meeting recaps for towns across New Hampshire’s North Country and the Northeast Kingdom.

A Colombian civic-watch site that tracks campaign promises and congressional activity alongside an earthquake-damage census for Sevilla, Valle del Cauca.

A Shenandoah Valley company offers four standalone tools for volunteer coordination, relationship management, local gift cards, and event listings, plus a community app called The Word.

An independent publication covering Adrian, Michigan, through local history, civic investigations, public records, and feature stories.

A public platform for reporting and tracking concerns about railway safety and maintenance in Spain and across the EU.

An independent, parent-run guide to Houston ISD board news, with agenda previews, vote logs, and rumor checks.

LET’S RISE presents a community-led proposal for modular timber homes in Chocó, Colombia, with a campaign goal of 50 complete houses.

A free, county-wide meetup and resource hub for Polk County founders, small-business owners, and people with an idea to try.

An independent documentary project tracing the history of Washington, D.C.’s neighborhoods, with a 3D hood map and archive.

The Centro Studi Internazionale Luigi Lilio presents research and cultural material about the Calabrian astronomer and mathematician associated with the Gregorian calendar reform.

e-Fourrière is a developing platform intended to publish items held or recovered at police stations in Benin, helping owners try to find them.

A community school and house of knowledge in Chigorodó focused on bullerengue, Afro-Colombian music, dance, and memory.

A family account of a Singapore child-audition experience, alongside linked reporting, a court filing, and advice for parents.

A Virginia-wide news front page organized around government, public safety, weather, roads, the outdoors, schools, food and events.

A proposal for a Tarpon Springs-based distinction honoring people who actively harvest natural sponges underwater.