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Crowdsourcing

Explore 173 projects in the Crowdsourcing category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

173 projects

Report algorithmic discrimination!

AlgorithmWatch's new campaign seeks to crowdsource reports of algorithmic discrimination. If you've experienced it or know someone who has, you can report it

Berlin
2025

Landlord Tech Watch

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

USA
housing, surveillance, landlord

Ripoti Africa

RIPOTI is a platform developed by Paradigm Initiative to enable individuals, CSOs, human rights defenders, advocates, activists, and the general public to report and collaboratively address African digital rights violations.

Lagos
cyberwar, corruption, hate speech, Reduced inequalities, human rights, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), anti-harassment, Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

Copy, Paste, Legislate

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) (HOTOSM)

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005
2009
OpenStreetMap, humanitarian

MapSwipe

Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.

2015

Mapeo

Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.

Crowdvocate

Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds โ€“ and win real money while you're at it.

UK

Devolutos

Devolutos is a pro-bono project built by a collective of activists to map Lisbon's empty housing and encourage the government to tax their owners to prompt redevelopment.

Lisbon
2025
housing