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Caltrans Performance Measurement System (PeMS)

PeMS is open-source software that is designed, developed, and maintained by Compiler LLC on behalf of Caltrans Traffic Operations.

Los Angeles, CA
mass transit

Tainan City Council Watchbot

Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.

Tainan City

BigScience/BloomZ

"BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model is a 176-billion-parameter transformer-based autoregressive large language model. The model, as well as the code base and the data used to train it, are distributed under free licences." - Wikipedia

commercial

Privacy Stack

An open source starter app that comes with user accounts that include: data access, do not sell, data deletion, undo sign up, and other features.

Massachusetts
2024

MyCandidate Nigeria

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

South Africa

openVoterId

Open Voter ID is like OpenID, to allow third-party websites to confirm registered voters' city of residence.

USA
2020
https://www.loomio.com/ActiveOpen-source

Loomio

Loomio is a flexible decision-making tool that helps you create a more engaged and collaborative culture, build trust and coordinate action

Wellington, New Zealand
2011
coop
https://pol.is/ActiveOpen-source

Polis

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

Seattle, WA, United States of America
2014
Polis