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https://council-search.bellingcat.com/ActiveOpen-source

Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search

This is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search auto-generated transcripts of Council meetings for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.

UK
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Government transparency, Public meetings, Watchdogging and transparency, Watchdogging government
https://xarta.dev/ActiveOpen-source

Xarta

Xarta é um pequeno sistema de publicação que ajuda a manter informações em seu site sempre atualizadas com cards embedáveis de contexto que só precisam ser alterados uma vez. O Xarta foi desenvolvido pelo Núcleo Jornalismo como parte do programa Codesinfo, programa administrado pelo Projor e que tem financiamento do Google News Initiative. O grant recebido para o desenvolvimento dessa ferramenta foi de R$ 97.400,00. O backend do Xarta é desenvolvido utilizando a API do Ghost como headless CMS, com o frontend construído em cima do framework Next.js (baseado em React.js).

São Paulo
2024
Content Management Systems (CMS), Website builder
https://www.rcvis.com/ActiveOpen-source

RCVIS

Ranked Choice Voting Election Result Visualization

2017
Data visualization, Participatory democracy, Ranked Choice Voting, Voting and elections
https://plan.fedilab.app/Active

FediPlan

FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).

2023
Decentralization, General purpose open source tools, Open social, Social media
https://www.partimap.eu/ActiveOpen-source

Partimap

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

Hungary
Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, Mapping tools, Participatory democracy, Surveys & polling
OpenStreetMap
https://www.csoacademymm.org/Active

CSO Academy

An online academy platform for CSO professionals

Myanmar
2022
Digital transformation, Nonprofit tech, Online courses
women, youth
https://beta.nyc/products/boardstat/ActiveOpen-source

BoardStat

Empowers users to discover issues and trends within their district’s boundaries.

New York City
Civic data, Dashboards, Data visualization, The Tech
https://luftdaten.info/ActiveOpen-source

Luftdaten

Measure air quality yourself

Stuttgart, Germany
2017
Citizen science, Civic data, Civic maps, Data visualization, Emerging tech, Mapping, Smart Cities and sensors, Tech for public challenges, The Tech
air quality
https://solarprotocol.net/ActiveOpen-source

Solar Protocol

This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.

Brooklyn, NY
Artistic interventions, Data visualization, Decentralization, Emerging tech, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Hardware, Web hosting
Affordable and clean energy