A directory of open source projects that benefit humanity, and are open to contributors.
https://github.com/tmrowco/tmrowapp-contrib
Tomorrow automatically calculates the climate impact of your daily choices by connecting to apps and services you already use. https://www.tmrow.com
JavaScript
https://github.com/collections/social-impact A showcase of open source repos including:
A research-validated stethoscope whose plans are available Freely and openly. The cost of the entire stethoscope is between $2.5 to $5 to produce
Ruby
Ember front end for HospitalRun
JavaScript
Catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
JavaScript
A better commenting experience from Vox Media
JavaScript
Tasking Manager - The tool for coordination of volunteers and organization of groups to map on OpenStreetMap
Python
OptiKey - Full computer control and speech with your eyes
C#
Open source app to share mental health experiences with loved ones
Ruby
REFUGE restrooms indexes and maps safe restroom locations for trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals.
Ruby
Fork of https://github.com/sketch-city/harvey-api for Hurricane Florence
Ruby
Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.
Ruby
Diaperbase is an inventory system for diaper banks, to aid them in tracking their inventory and providing statistics about their inventory flows.
Ruby
Diaper Partner is the companion application to Diaper Base tracking diaper bank partners.
CSS
Supporting children and families experiencing homelessness in Washington, DC. Live app - https://wishlist.playtimeproject.org Ruby
Ruby
Ecosystem Climate Regulation Services Calculator
Ruby
Website for coordinating rehabilitation of people affected in the 2018 Kerala Floods
Python
civicdata / civicdata.github.io
HTML
Tree Tracking Fighting Poverty and Climate Change - This repository contains Contributing, Project Overview, Roadmap, etc
https://github.com/TechforgoodCAST/awesome-techforgood
It includes the open source projects listed below. It also covers a wide range of additional resources for tech for good initiatives.
community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier.
open source interactive tool that guides users to fit tech strategically into social change projects, and creates a structured PDF document for project planning.
comprehensive database of 350,000 charities + an open source API.
open source guide to help protect online accounts against harassment and stalkers.
making Government work for the people, by the people, in the 21st century.
search engine for UK charities, with elasticsearch back end.
helping nonprofits manage their email campaigns without having to use third party services.
open source app for SMS managment in nonprofit organisations.
open, free map data for humanitarian aid and development.
Simple, robust and powerful tools For data collection in demanding contexts.
International citizen science project to build particulate matter sensors cheaply and network the results. Map, GitHub
open source initiative for the development of affordable, light-weight, modular robot and prosthetic hands.
Free and open-source set of tools for collecting data in challenging environments
helping civil society groups access and use data to take action on social problems.
open source framework for building interactive SMS applications, integrating with Django to provide a rich reporting interface. Created by the Innovation Team at UNICEF.
SMS voter registration, plus web and mobile tools that improve data accuracy, transparency, and visual reporting across the elections process.
collection of tech-focused projects organisations and tools working for social progress.
open standard of audio navigation for vision impaired people (+ demo iOS app).
hardware projects repository hosting service. Robotics, drones, 3D printers etc.
an open-source, collaborative R&D project to bring about a digital revolution in the way we make homes.
https://www.socialtech.org.uk *A huge database of projects. Can be filtered for open source options. Open source projects include: *
Irish citizens engaging in direct dialogue with Ireland's parliament.
Encouraging data innovation through a challenge in the US
Tackling the world's biggest problems through data science .
Building digital infrastructure for a 21st century democracy in the UK
Anonymising social network users and giving them control of their personal data
Sharing knowledge through video
Collaboratively mapping Nairobi’s informal transit network
Making wheelchairs more accessible with open-source design
Providing an insight into the way buildings are used.
One of the largest and most diverse digital library collections.
Affordable 3D printed prosthetics
Aspiring to be “civilization in a box”
Using phones and drones to monitor how El Niño changes the California coast
Improving and developing independent living products and services.
Innovating with environmental data
Providing an online ticketing service for event organisers to plan and promote events.
The world’s most advanced personal safety solution
Pay-as-you-go micropayments for content creators
Training young British people in the skills they need to enter the digital economy.
Mining personal data from fitness apps and wearable technology
Accessing government documents covered by the Freedom of Information Act
Creating transparency and reducing corruption in the fledgling democratic republic of Kosovo.
Tracking aid money through citizen activism
Become a part of the food revolution
Conducting Excel surveys on any Android device, without needing a data connection.
A device that helps deaf users detect danger
Forking its way into open source legend.
Providing better transparency in environmental and social projects (SROI)
Allowing DIY fabrication of 50 industrial machines for a sustainable civilization.
Getting fit and doing good, at the same time.
Supporting projects that generate new opportunities for the improvement of society
Making a profound commitment to government openness.
Serving as a model for legislative transparency websites around the world.
A UK skills-share scheme for people to teach or learn ‘green skills’.
Developing open source mobile security software for high-risk situations
Letting Latvia's citizens communicate directly with their government ministers and lawmakers.
Bringing together the largest community of young scientists in China
Bringing about new ways to engage with North Korean citizens
Geotagging disruptive events in Lebanon
Changing Australians’ alcohol consumption with a teetotal pledge and blogging.
Accessing open data sources for R&D, visualisation, data-journalism and app development.
Providing a safe, moderated, online forum for informal one-to-one mentoring.
Rapidly delivering accurate maps to field workers
Making and learning with 3D printing
Building a barometer of modern attitudes towards desire, each other, and ourselves.
A ‘make do and mend’ movement for the age of built-in obsolescence
Interactive maps about environmental changes in the Amazon rainforest
Opening, translating and linking international government data-sets using the ‘semantic web’.
Pioneering agricultural research to alleviate poverty in developing countries.
Creating a level playing field for building and testing digital projects.
Open-source education to bridge the digital divide
Developing free applications with open source software
Bringing American BA degrees to Africa
Providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.
Making data collection easier in a crisis
Promoting the use of electronic media for democratic processes.
Sharing knowledge on agriculture and health by using a Talking Book.
Freeing London's data for wider use
Providing an open source decision making platform
The 'holy grail of email' – user-friendly but encrypted.
A 21st Century ‘Why Don’t You’ for British youth
A SXSW for the Maker Movement, the Glastonbury of DIY
Creating the first free and open digital map of urban slums.
Keeping sensitive information and the people who are collecting it safe
Changing the way we carry out research
DIY Fab Lab Workshop
Making it easy for social housing tenants to swap their homes
Helping dementia sufferers to access their memories through objects and music.
Big data improves access to clean water
Providing simple digital tools to put power in the hands of the people.
Cloud sharing helps Type 1 diabetes sufferers share glucose levels
Provides data from official sources about how global companies operate.
Strengthening the hand of citizens when faced with open data.
Combining health and technology expertise to develop products for health professionals.
Preserving and promoting citizen's rights in the digital age
Democratising neurotechnology
Funding the tools that stop surveillance and censorship
Providing an open, consistent and comparative picture of UK local authority data.
Supporting the next generation of digitally-enhanced journalists
Imagine an open oil industry
Co-creating a free map of the world that anyone can edit
Accelerating biological research with an open-source 'virtual organism'
Making disabled-friendly restaurants easy to find
Managing sensor networks to detect early signs of flooding
Providing a hidden app for human rights activists at risk in the field.
Helping the delivery and management of data relating to municipal services and utilities.
Creating a free image library archive for charities.
Allowing an international comparison of perceptions of place.
Urban air quality predictor app
Prefab transparency tools
Helping non-profits in Canada to get more out of data
Using mobile phones to provide services to poor and remote communities.
3D-printed prosthetics in the most challenging environments
Bringing the 'cabinet of curiosities' concept into the digital age.
Speeds up formal, scientific communication and allows scientists to use more informal channels.
Re-purposing old smartphones to detect illegal logging and poaching
RANDOM HACKS OF KINDNESS Matching top-flight developers with NGOs
Helping children all over the world to learn computer programming.
Decentralising the net
Advanced technology for human rights in conflict zones
Centralising refugee crisis initiatives
Simplifying the process of making and accessing Freedom of Information requests in Australia.
Providing real-time information about copyrights
Empowering women to share stories of harassment
Developing open hardware technologies to explore and protect the ocean
Programming interactive stories, games and animations.
Providing a platform for citizens to report on, and governments to manage, non-emergency issues.
Monitoring environmental impact by city.
Unearthing, mapping and connecting organisations that are delivering social good in a community.
Harnessing a global network to develop open-source products for life on Earth and in space
Giving residents an easy way to report problems in their city.
Holding the US government to account with cutting edge technology
Cutting edge skills for activists in the global south
Using 3D printing to bring books alive for visually impaired children
Helping individuals to set up their own civic-minded community websites.
Convening pioneers and thought leaders focused on social change through technology.
Urban-scale sensor and embedded systems pilot project
Supporting cooperatively owned and operated communications networks
Providing a clearer view into how aid is used.
Supporting the adoption of technology to advance healthcare in South Africa
Free and open voice communication aid
Getting your 'things' talking to each other with open source API
An IoT AgTech company
The search engine for the Internet of Things
Makers and people with disabilities develop solutions for everyday challenges
Empowering the transgender community
Envisioning a world where knowledge knows no language barriers
Helping developers to build context-aware apps
Bridging the digital divide with free online training
Providing appointment, medication and health information to patients by text
Creating technologies that support more efficient, sustainable or ‘smart’ cities.
Presenting all Lithuanian government and public sector expenditure in one place.
3D scanning technology unwraps secrets from a 2,000-year-old scroll
Providing an interactive electoral literacy application to increase election participation.
Bringing communities closer to clean water with faster and cheaper testing kits
Opening up open hardware for all
Mapping places for wheelchair users
An open source construction system
Gathers sensitive information at scale and protects its sources.
Technology-enabled solutions to pressing biodiversity conservation challenges
Using technology to fight wildlife crime
A global network of young programmers.
Pursuing collaborative democracy online
Enlists volunteers to pursue scientific research.