Civic & Public Life

BC-Scanner explains what Texas HB 1059 and its companion SB 164 would do, how the proposed 25-foot rule could apply, and how Texans can contact lawmakers.

A public guide to who governs across Upstate New York, when they meet, where to find records, and how to take part.

A pre-launch civic guide to the governments and public meetings of Benton, Washington, Madison and Carroll counties.

A civic guide to Alaska’s governing bodies, with meeting channels, schedules, agendas, records, and ways to take part.

A decade-long account of DC Public Schools’ fully funded study-abroad program, with year-by-year participation data and research on student outcomes.

A station-by-station search tool for comparing disaster risks and selected measures of livability across Japan.

A civic guide to Hawaii’s governing bodies, meeting schedules, agendas, records, and testimony procedures.

A plain-language library on substance effects, dose risks, drug checking, and overdose response.

An interactive architecture-thesis presentation proposing decarbonisation strategies, with northern Padua as its field laboratory.

A community project documents the “Gorch”—a garage with its door open and chairs out—and connects that everyday gathering spot to street design and policy.

A planning tool for exploring how land-use choices connect heat, flooding, food, and habitat across a city-region.

A guide to licensed daycare inspection histories across Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin.

A research project is collecting reports on anesthesia medicines and hospital resources in Ghana, with a context-aware AI assistant described as a future step.

A structured account of the SID Developments restructuring that compares the Monitor’s reporting with court endorsements, sworn interviews, filings, and regulator records.

An independent Durham community site tracks the city’s response to lead contamination at five parks and lays out residents’ demands for cleanup and reopening.

An archive of video reports, linked public records, and research updates about cases and their documented outcomes.

A public map and project radar trace who controls energy developments in Puglia and what may stay in the region.

A parent-led campaign opposing Portland school closures and calling for fully funded neighborhood schools.

A Korean-language data story maps childcare wait times, staffing, budgets and parental leave across 229 local districts.

A Hungarian CEO candidacy site lays out a proposed 2027–2030 overhaul of public media, with a full application and trackable targets.

A source-linked briefing on published reporting about the Sortis Income Fund, an investor lawsuit, and reported regulatory investigations.

A guided tool for Siskiyou County residents to draft a personal comment on the Water Board’s Scott and Shasta River order.

A Québec emergency-room dashboard presenting occupancy, patients waiting, and prior-day average stays from ministry data the site says is updated hourly.

Eastern Washington News organizes information about local governments, meeting schedules, recordings, agendas, records, and public-comment rules.

A map-based tool for exploring property taxes, sale prices, and assessments across more than 24,000 Petaluma parcels, with housing-type filters and planning scenarios.

A visual, scrolling explainer about PFAS, tracing the chemicals through everyday products, food, water, and the human body.

A county-organized directory for Ohio mothers, covering meetups, family events, benefits, and specialized support.

An interactive atlas maps where Turkish citizens are registered by hometown and where they live, alongside province-to-province migration flows from 2008 to 2025.

A prison-centered project bringing together diary entries, art, book chapters and material about legal rights.

A report tracks when five AI search tools generated answers to repeated election questions across 55 U.S. races, in English and Spanish.

The project is piloting surfaces in New York that it says capture CO₂ from ambient air and turn it into solid carbonate on existing urban infrastructure.

A resident-reporting map and local information page for hazards, early warnings, aid, and emergency contacts across Aceh Tamiang’s 12 districts.

A free, ad-free map and phone-installable site combining Indonesian air-quality readings, satellite fire detections, forest-loss alerts, and citizen reports.

A public register maps and catalogs 608 standing covered bridges, with state listings and details such as length, postings, and access status.

A paid service that drafts, files, and tracks state and local public-records requests, then delivers the returned records in an organized set.

A coordination site where TVDE drivers vote each week on a shared day to stop working.

A cave-preservation nonprofit with plans to protect karst properties, document cave records, and bring cavers together.

An independent local resource that presents Reed Union School District information through plain-language explainers, data tools, and a private feedback form.

A community map for reporting road hazards in Jackson Township, New Jersey, alongside NJDOT crash records and township response information.

A searchable Japanese database of judges and court decisions, with case counts, timelines, and rough judge-by-judge tendency labels.

An interactive Lakewood, Ohio map connects street names to the people, places, and things behind them.

A Gaza-focused advocacy campaign that helps visitors contact lawmakers and share calls for more shelter to enter Gaza.

An independent fan campaign asking Globo for a public response about alleged censorship involving LGBTQ+ representation of Maurício and Felipe.

Manavillage offers free, phone-first village websites in Telugu and English, with news, photos, community posts, alerts, and issue reporting.

A searchable register of publicly available procurement and contract records related to the Telekom Serbia group, with filters, document links, analytics, and CSV export.

A public monitor tracks selected European space-autonomy targets through indicators, risks, strategy milestones, and sourced news.

A regional civic initiative proposes checking government claims about algorithmic systems against publicly available evidence.

A Portuguese-language portal for Roraima’s cultural calendar, artists and collectives, venues, music, routes, video, and a shop.

A community campaign explains a Gold Coast shopping-centre approval, gathers public documents and seeks support for a court appeal.

A paid local monitoring service that sends businesses weekly updates on Valladolid ordinances, deadlines, and changes by subject area.

The residents of Wasl Green Park, Dubai, use this site to document their annual Harvest celebration, share event photos, and invite neighbors to help shape future editions.

An interactive county map for exploring public health, environmental, and data-center measures, with views for comparisons and clusters.

Akonuche is a beta civic map for exploring Nigeria’s government and elected representatives, currently centered on a partial Lagos pilot.

An open-entry art contest invites people anywhere to draw Busan’s pork soup, with a meal donation planned for each submitted drawing.

A public-facing tracker for data center projects, companies, bills, places, and related map and calculator tools.

A free directory for finding food, work, housing, healthcare, repairs, and other assistance across the Philadelphia, South Jersey, Baltimore, Maryland, and Delaware region.

A short argument about unpaid interview assignments asks readers to report companies that use candidates’ work without pay.

Laboratorio Vivo Atlántico offers a digital field form for documenting observations at the Ciénaga de Mallorquín in Colombia.

A UK neighbourhood beta for asking nearby camera owners who may have footage to share it.

A campaign site for former Switzerland international Ramon Vega, outlining his stated bid for FIFA president and a five-part reform programme.

An independent publication covering reparations, Foundational Black American history and lineage, with reporting, policy updates and research resources.

A lab focused on cued languages, language and literacy, and communication access, with projects spanning learning, professional practice, creative collaboration, and history.

Nabo presents a private, multilingual community app for residents of a single apartment building and their managers.

A searchable directory of House and Senate members, paired with clips of lawmakers answering questions.

An independent Altadena organization presenting programs for wildfire prevention, community preparedness, firefighter development, and suppression.

A free, open-source cancer information site where people can explore cited cancer facts and choose whether to add their own records to a shared tree.

A pre-launch project outlining a future process for survivor-submitted reports of domestic violence and human trafficking.

The project describes a public storytelling archive about life in Toowoomba, combining local films, audio stories, a digital map, and exhibitions.

A consumer-facing registry for reported AdBlue SCR-system and Haldex 4WD pump defects, with affected-brand lists, case-reporting links and legal-procedure guidance.

A new Indigenous nonprofit outlines ways to support Dene language learning, including Elder recordings, land maps, youth-built talking robots, and STEAM camps.

A Buenos Aires community in formation says its members will fund and govern a shared place, beginning with weekend meetups and eventually a house.

Ask Walt presents a waitlist for a newsroom tool intended to connect assignment desks with reporters working in the field.

A volunteer-centered nonprofit organizing dance events, workshops, gatherings, and a dance camp.

A Mohawk Valley arboretum project describes its trails, tree collections, and plans for connecting visitors with the landscape’s ecological and cultural history.

RasLeBol presents a tool for coordinating student picket sessions, group needs, course references, and announcements.

A bilingual concept for a cultural village in Petrovići, Montenegro, combining Tesla heritage, workshops, guest houses, and the surrounding karst landscape.

Zakon.dev brings together Bulgarian parliamentary records: lawmakers, bills, votes, session transcripts, laws, and their amendment histories.