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General Purpose Open Source Tools

Explore 77 projects in the General Purpose Open Source Tools category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

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Wikipedia Pageviews Analysis

A free, open source tool that displays open analytics for Wikipedia pages

General purpose open source tools, Media and social media analysis, Open source, Privacy-preserving user analytics
Wikipedia
https://github.com/ActiveOpen-source

GitHub

With GitHub, developers, agents, and code come together on one platform.

Redmond, WA
General purpose open source tools, Open source
https://opensource.un.org/enActive

Open Source United

Open Source United (OSU) is a UN-wide initiative to coordinate and scale open source efforts across the United Nations system.

2026
Civic tech catalogs, General purpose open source tools, Open source
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-02-the-security-tab-is-now-security-quality/Active

Github Security and Quality

Section that runs security alerts and evaluates code quality on Github repos

Redmond, WA
2026
Cybersecurity, General purpose open source tools, Open source, Report cards and audits
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!ducky++JitsiActive

Jitsi

More secure, more flexible, and completely free video conferencing

General purpose open source tools, Internal communication and coordination, Open source