Open-source projects that let people and communities build the futures we want today: local food, energy, nature, cooperation, knowledge. Free to use, copy and improve.
farmOS lets farmers, developers, and researchers manage farm records and planning through a web-based platform. As an open-source community project, it provides a shared standard that can support more organized and transparent farm management.
The Open Food Network lets farmers, food hubs, cooperatives and independent food businesses run online food stores and sell local produce directly to individuals and local businesses. By providing an open-source, not-for-profit alternative, it aims to make local food distribution easier and fairer and to reduce the concentration of power in global agri-food systems.
This project lets people set up, customize and control a FarmBot from any device through a web interface, with an API and realtime messaging for managing farm designs and sequences. It helps build a better future by offering a free hosted instance for owners, open avenues for developers to create add-ons, and tools for communities to translate the interface into their own languages.
LiteFarm gives diversified farmers a digital tool to assess the social, environmental and economic outcomes of their farming practices together with scientists. It supports responsible on-farm decisions and can help farmers earn income through ecological services payments and certifications such as organic, encouraging sustainable land use.
This open-source home automation project lets people manage their own home devices with local control and privacy as the stated priority. It offers an alternative path for everyday technology that keeps users in charge rather than depending on outside control.
OpenEMS lets people and communities monitor, control and integrate energy storage, renewable energy sources and complementary devices such as electric vehicle chargers, heat pumps and electrolysers through a modular open-source platform. Because it is free and open source and designed for local and area energy management, it supports the 100% energy transition by making energy management tools more accessible and extendable.
This project is a web application for processing, logging and visualising energy, temperature and other environmental data. It gives people and communities a practical tool for working with those measurements.
EMHASS lets households optimise energy use through Linear Programming, taking into account electricity prices, solar generation, battery storage and controllable loads. It provides an optimised daily schedule that can help people save money and reduce environmental impact.
This project lets people or communities build a Raspberry Pi-based energy monitor to track electricity use. Because the hardware and firmware are open, users can study, modify and share the design, supporting transparency and local energy awareness.
OpenEVSE lets people and communities run their own open-source electric vehicle charging station, with local web control, scheduled charging, energy limits, and smart-home integration. Its solar-divert mode and power shaping can charge from surplus renewable energy and manage grid capacity, supporting cleaner and more resilient local energy use.
Open Charge Map lets people and communities access and improve a global public registry of electric vehicle charging locations, through hundreds of apps and sites, and by contributing comments, check-ins, photos, translations or becoming editors for their country. It helps build a better future by providing open data to drivers, researchers, EV market analysts and government policy makers, making charging infrastructure easier to find and maintain.
Energy Sparks lets schools collect and explore their gas and electricity usage, log actions such as switching off lights, and compare their performance with other schools. The open-source app is designed to be run cheaply by local councils and community groups, helping cut energy waste and costs while teaching children what energy efficiency means.
OpenSmartMeter provides an inexpensive, open-source GSM prepaid smart energy meter design that solar developers can build and adapt. Because the hardware, firmware, web software and API are openly documented to meet IEC standards and key Nigerian regulations, it can lower the cost and complexity of metering energy in solar projects.
This project makes the code that runs iNaturalist.org openly available, so people and communities can view, modify, and help maintain it. Open-source maintenance helps keep the platform transparent and shaped by its community.
Panoptes provides the Zooniverse API that supports user-created volunteer research projects. It gives such projects a shared backend for managing volunteer participation, so more communities can build and run their own research efforts.
GeoNature-citizen is a free and open-source web solution that lets citizen science projects collect biodiversity data, with customizable species lists and optional user creation. It supports participatory biodiversity inventories and uses gamified badges and scores to help manage users.
The Half-Earth map lets people view an interactive summary of progress toward the Half-Earth goal. It helps them place global datasets on biodiversity, human encroachment and protection in context, making the target easier to understand.
This open-source platform lets people join or build communities around social and environmental projects, ask and answer questions, share solutions, find people nearby and coordinate locally. By uniting these projects in one place and offering free tools for online and offline collaboration, it aims to help communities grow and tackle society's greatest challenges together.
OpenLitterMap lets people and communities record geotagged observations of litter and plastic pollution on an open map. This creates open data that has been cited in more than 98 peer-reviewed publications, helping researchers and the public understand and tackle plastic pollution.
Loomio gives groups one shared place to discuss proposals, gather input, vote and record clear outcomes, replacing scattered emails and chat threads. Because every discussion, reason and outcome stays together in a searchable record, it helps cooperatives, nonprofits, boards, unions and community groups make decisions that are transparent, inclusive and easy to revisit.
Decidim is a framework for participatory democracy, provided as a generator and multiple Ruby on Rails gems. It offers a reusable foundation for building digital tools that let people or communities take part in democratic processes.
Consul Democracy lets local governments and communities run their own e-participation and open government website, because it is free open-source software that can be installed and customised. Developed for the Madrid City government and maintained by a global community as a verified digital public good, it gives communities an accessible tool for more participatory and transparent governance.
Polis lets communities and organisations collect and map open-ended feedback at scale, using AI-powered sentiment gathering. It can support deliberation and public-interest decisions by offering a more organic alternative to surveys and a lower-effort alternative to focus groups.
CoopCycle lets neighbourhood food businesses and bike couriers run their own self-hosted platform for ordering meals and delivering them by bike. Because the software is reserved for co-operatives, it decentralises delivery services and lets couriers own the platform they work for, rather than being controlled by a proprietary app.
A/B Street lets people and communities simulate traffic, edit streets and intersections, plan bike networks and low-traffic neighbourhoods, and learn about 15-minute neighbourhoods through games, using public OpenStreetMap data. Because it is open source and designed to be easy to use, it helps residents become active creators of their own city visions rather than passive recipients of official plans.
OpenTripPlanner lets people and communities plan journeys that combine scheduled public transport with walking, cycling, bike share and ride hailing, using open data standards such as GTFS and OpenStreetMap. Because it is open source and applies real-time updates and alerts, cities and regions can deploy it widely and help travellers find routes that account for disruptions and service changes, making sustainable transport easier to use.
The official firmware for Meshtastic, an open-source, off-grid mesh communication system.
The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap
Kiwix for Windows and GNU/Linux desktops
kpi is the server for KoboToolbox. It includes an API for users to access data and manage their forms, question library, sharing settings, create reports, and export data.
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