Migalka
Migalka is an independent emergency alert system that turns open sources and user reports into real-time notifications about shelling, raids, and police activity in your location.
2026
Explore 182 projects in the Crowdsourcing category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
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
Migalka is an independent emergency alert system that turns open sources and user reports into real-time notifications about shelling, raids, and police activity in your location.
Reclone (Reagent Collaboration Network) is an open-science network that stewards and distributes open-source DNA plasmids and molecular-biology reagents to researchers worldwide under open material transfer agreements.
Repro Uncensored tracks digital censorship, helps reinstate blocked accounts, investigates patterns of suppression, and builds creative tools to keep information free and accessible worldwide.
Community-powered electricity reliability map for every Indian city.
A world map where people can mark places, add a short story, image and link, and share the result with others.
Should Exist is a public, anonymously-contributable catalogue of things people have said should exist, practical requests, historical visions, scientific questions, possible institutions, fictional possibilities, that preserves each idea's source and compares it against what already exists.
CivicPulse is an AI-powered civic-reporting prototype that lets San Francisco residents report local issues in plain language, by text, photo, or voice, and auto-routes each report based on location.
Tayr (طير) is a Moroccan civic platform, by the Digital Citizen Association, that lets residents report visual pollution (unsightly signage, billboards, urban blight) in their cities and track its resolution; currently piloting in Smara.
Echtzeit-Risikoprüfungen und Berichte zum öffentlichen Nahverkehr in Berlin.