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Crowdsourcing

Platforms that allow a variety of people to contribute data to a common collection. See also: Participatory Sensing, "an approach to data collection and interpretation in which individuals, acting alone or in groups, use their personal mobile devices and web services to systematically explore interesting aspects of their worlds ranging from health to culture." - IDS UCLA

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FloodLight
pak-flood.ushahidi.io/map

FloodLight

A Code for Pakistan initiative to Crowdsource the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

Pakistan 🇵🇰
since 2022
Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Crowdsourcing, Civic maps
floods
Undo The Firewall
undothefirewall.com

Undo The Firewall

Bring Independent News to Russians (by adding code to your website to display news that Russian authorities cannot block)

since 2024
Circumvention tech, Crowdsourcing, Journalism
Ukraine, 2024 Webby Awards
Falling Fruit
fallingfruit.org/?c=forager%2Cfreegan&locale=en

Falling Fruit

Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest.

Boulder, CO
Civic maps, Crowdsourcing, Civic data
Zero hunger, Sustainable cities and communities
Eye On Corruption
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ipaidabribe.eyeoncorruption&hl=en&gl=US

Eye On Corruption

Eye on Corruption App is a mobile application which allows people to report/submit a corruption related complaint to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC).

Ghana 🇬🇭
Watchdogging and transparency, Government transparency, Crowdsourcing
apps
AAPI Hate Tracker
aapihatetracker.org/s/?language=en_US&activateLanguage=true

AAPI Hate Tracker

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
since 2024
Crowdsourcing
racial equity
WhoFundsThem
mysociety.org/democracy/who-funds-them

WhoFundsThem

WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
since 2024
Watchdogging and transparency, Government transparency, Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
Democracy Club Candidates
candidates.democracyclub.org.uk

Democracy Club Candidates

Open candidate information for UK elections covering all 2,015 areas

Stroud, UK
since 2024
Voting and elections, Crowdsourcing, Ballot information
2024 elections
OpenLitterMap
openlittermap.com

OpenLitterMap

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

Cork, Ireland
since 2017
Crowdsourcing, Civic data, Environmental data
Sustainable cities and communities, apps
8M LATAM
8mlatam.com

8M LATAM

El objetivo es realizar un archivo fotográfico que muestre la realidad de la extensión del movimiento feminista, incluyendo la variedad de experiencias, testimonios y emociones que plasma el 8M en nos...

Latin America
since 2024
Crowdsourcing, Advocacy tech, Specific campaigns
Gender Equality, women
SocorroBot
socorrobot.org

SocorroBot

SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.

Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) 🇲🇽
Bots, Crowdsourcing, Participatory aid
WhatsApp, missing people
Landlord Tech Watch
antievictionmappingproject.github.io/landlordtech

Landlord Tech Watch

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

United States of America 🇺🇸
Watchdogging and transparency, Consumer watchdogging, Civic maps
housing, surveillance, landlord
digitize your city
digitalizate.clisi.org

digitize your city

Digitize your city is a series of actions that seek to create a friendlier environment through the use of technology previously influenced by us and the data we consciously create and deliver.

Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
Crowdsourcing, Mapping
Facts and Fakes in video
sites.google.com/view/facts-and-fakes

Facts and Fakes in video

Fact-checking video for Youtube and Rutube: displaying references to refutations, proofs and disputs of the facts contained in the video, as well as the video rating of the video and the overall chann...

Russian Federation 🇷🇺
Fight disinformation, Factchecking, Crowdsourcing
YouTube
Location Aware Sensing System (LASS) Environmental Sensor Network
lass-net.org

Location Aware Sensing System (LASS) Environmental Sensor Network

LASS (Location Aware Sensing System) is an open source and public welfare "environmental sensor network system". 是一套開源和公益的「環境感測器網路系統」

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼
since 2015
Smart Cities and sensors, Crowdsourcing
air quality, Clean water and sanitation
Safecity
webapp.safecity.in

Safecity

A crowdmap to report incidents of sexual and gender based violence anonymously.

Maryland
since 2012
Crowdsourcing, Issue reporting, Civic maps
Gender Equality, anti-harassment, women
Mob Data Thailand
mobdatathailand.org/about

Mob Data Thailand

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประ...

Bangkok, Thailand
Crowdsourcing, Archives, Direct action
ShakeNet and Raspberry Shakes
shakenet.raspberryshake.org

ShakeNet and Raspberry Shakes

Online community tracking earthquakes with Raspberry Shakes: Professional grade seismograph and infrasound monitors that anyone can use to record and visualize both natural and human activity.

Citizen science, Crowdsourcing
earthquakes, apps
Ukraine is calling
ukraineiscalling.com

Ukraine is calling

We are raising €10 million to buy 112 rescue vehicles for Ukraine.

Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Letzebuerg) 🇱🇺
Crowdsourcing, Emergency services
Ukraine
PetaBencana.id
info.petabencana.id

PetaBencana.id

PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to har...

Jakarta
Crowdsourcing, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Mapping tools
WhatsApp
UnmappedSmallTownUSA Mapstodon bot
en.osm.town/@SmallTownUSA

UnmappedSmallTownUSA Mapstodon bot

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

since 2023
Bots, Mapping tools, Crowdsourcing
OpenStreetMap
Common Voice
commonvoice.mozilla.org

Common Voice

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

Mozilla, East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, CA
Translation and linguistic representation, Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing
2023 Webby Awards
HOT Tasking Manager
tasks.hotosm.org

HOT Tasking Manager

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005
Pro bono and volunteer, Help out, Crowdsourcing
OpenStreetMap
OpenAerialMap
openaerialmap.org

OpenAerialMap

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. St...

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005
Open civic data, Civic data, Drones
OpenStreetMap
HOT's Approach to OSM Data Validation for Earthquake Response Mapping
hotosm.org/updates/hot-approach-to-osm-data-validation-to-eq-mapping-projects

HOT's Approach to OSM Data Validation for Earthquake Response Mapping

We have a four step validation process to ensure that the data created for emergencies like the current Turkey and Syria earthquake response is fit for use.

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005
since 2023
Crowdsourcing, Disaster response and humanitarian tech, Manage volunteers
guides, earthquakes
Election Violence Tracker
app.violencetrack.ng

Election Violence Tracker

Report and share Violence Incidence in Nigeria directly on this platform.

Lagos
since 2023
Voting and elections, Election observation, Crowdsourcing
preventing election violence
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap activation Turkey earthquake
eventbrite.it/e/mapathon-in-support-of-turkiye-tickets-538836052137

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap activation Turkey earthquake

With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005
since 2023
Mapping, Civic maps, Disaster response and humanitarian tech
The People’s Database for Community-Based Police Accountability
berkeleycopwatch.org/people-s-database

The People’s Database for Community-Based Police Accountability

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

Berkeley, CA
Open justice, Watchdogging and transparency, Crowdsourcing
criminal justice
Consumer Reports Share My Story
consumerreports.org/stories?questionnaireId=14

Consumer Reports Share My Story

A platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills

New York
Crowdsourcing, Narrative tech, Story tech
Talk to Loop
app.talktoloop.org/stories

Talk to Loop

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual...

The Hague, Netherlands
since 2020
Engagement tech, Communicating with the people, Disaster response and humanitarian tech
Worker Info Exchange
workerinfoexchange.org

Worker Info Exchange

Data Rights for Digital Workers

London
Crowdsourcing, Civic data, Peer networks
labor
Kenya Digital Public Works
spatialcollective.com/kenya-digital-public-works

Kenya Digital Public Works

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

Nairobi
Civic data, Mapping, Civic maps
housing, informal settlements
Panoptic - Facial Recognition Technologies Tracker
panoptic.in

Panoptic - Facial Recognition Technologies Tracker

IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projec...

New Delhi
Digital security and privacy, Crowdsourcing, Specific campaigns
surveillance
Waterbear
digiresilience.org/solutions/waterbear

Waterbear

Disinformation is threatening our ability to get credible facts. Built on our trusted technology stack, Waterbear helps you fight back.

Crowdsourcing, Fight disinformation, Cybersecurity
Air Alliance Houston
airalliancehouston.org

Air Alliance Houston

Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.

Houston
Crowdsourcing, Civic maps
air quality
Tarjimly
tarjim.ly

Tarjimly

A non-profit that seeks to eliminate humanitarian language barriers to improve the lives of refugees and immigrants. This service is built for people on the move and non-profit organisations.

Mountain View, CA
since 2017
Translation and linguistic representation, Translation tools, platforms, and communities, Crowdsourcing
refugees, apps, migration
환경재단
greenfund.org/board/board.php?bo_table=notice&idx=612

환경재단

자신이 주운 쓰레기 종류와 개수 데이터를 실시간으로 누적할 수 있으며, 플로깅을 마치면 GPS기반 소요시간/이동거리 등의 활동 정보가 ‘나의 쓰담기록’으로 저장됩니다. 어플 사용자 간 실시간 랭킹을 확인할 수...

South Korea (Republic of) (Hanguk or Namhan) 🇰🇷
Crowdsourcing
apps, Sustainable cities and communities
GigaTurnip
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.kloop.gigaturnip&hl=en&gl=US

GigaTurnip

Приложение позволяет создавать и заполнять формы для сообщения о нарушениях на выборах. Crowdsourced election monitoring app for iOS and Android

Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (Kyrgyz Republic)
Crowdsourcing, Election observation, Voting and elections
apps
Chequeo Colectivo
chequeado.com/colectivo

Chequeo Colectivo

Es una plataforma abierta para verificar contenidos a pedido de la comunidad.

Argentina 🇦🇷
Media, Fight disinformation, Factchecking
FloodLight
pak-flood.ushahidi.io/views/map

FloodLight

Ushahidi instance crowdsourcing the flood-related data from the 2022 Floods in Pakistan.

Pakistan 🇵🇰
Civic maps, Mapping, Crowdsourcing
floods
The Citizen Browser Project
themarkup.org/series/citizen-browser

The Citizen Browser Project

The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initi...

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
Media, Fight disinformation, Media and social media analysis
Real 411
real411.org

Real 411

Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦
Media, Fight disinformation, Crowdsourcing
PubliElectoral
publielectoral.adc.org.ar

PubliElectoral

PubliElectoral is a technological tool of social interest that allows the collection of information related to electoral advertising on social networks without affecting the privacy of citizen users.

Buenos Aires
Media, Fight disinformation, Advertising
extensions, Facebook, apps
News On Wiki NOW
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:News_On_Wiki

News On Wiki NOW

Helping the Public Navigate a Challenging Media Landscape

San Francisco
Media, Fight disinformation, Crowdsourcing
Wikipedia
hypothes.is
web.hypothes.is

hypothes.is

"The Hypothesis Project is a new effort to implement an old idea: A conversation layer over the entire web that works everywhere, without needing implementation by any underlying site."

Media, Fight disinformation, Crowdsourcing
Ad Observer
adobserver.org

Ad Observer

Political campaigns spend a lot of money to reach voters on Facebook. Are they telling the truth? Are they saying different things to different people? Help hold them accountable by installing our bro...

New York University
Advertising, Crowdsourcing, Consumer watchdogging
extensions, Facebook, YouTube
Leerstandsmelder
leerstandsmelder.de

Leerstandsmelder

Für mehr Transparenz und neue Möglichkeitsräume in der Stadt

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪
Crowdsourcing, Civic maps
housing
Ad Observatory
adobservatory.org

Ad Observatory

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

Advertising, Crowdsourcing, Academia
extensions, Facebook, Instagram
Turkopticon
turkopticon.ucsd.edu

Turkopticon

Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done.

Crowdsourcing
labor, Amazon
Documenters.org (Documenters Network)
documenters.org

Documenters.org (Documenters Network)

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

Chicago, IL
Crowdsourcing, Media, Archives
local
Public Editor
publiceditor.io

Public Editor

We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.

Berkeley, CA
Fight disinformation, Media, Crowdsourcing
extensions
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