Awesome Open Source projects dedicated to tackling global challenges and friendly to volunteering software engineers.
- SDG 1: No poverty
- SDG 2: Zero hunger
- SDG 3: Good health and well-being
- SDG 4: Quality education
- SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation
- SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and infrastructure
- SDG 10: Reduced inequalities
- SDG 12: Responsible consumption and production
- SDG 14: Life below water
- SDG 15: Life on land
- SDG 16: Peace, Justice and strong institutions
- SDG 17: Partnerships for the goals
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Mature platform with open APIs that provides a reliable, robust, and affordable core banking solution for financial institutions offering services to the world’s 2 billion underbanked and unbanked.
farmOS is a web-based application for farm management, planning, and record keeping. It is developed by a community of farmers, developers, researchers, and organizations with the aim of providing a standard platform for agricultural data collection and management.
If me is a community for mental health experiences that encourages people to share their presonal stories with trusted allies.
Free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge. Their mission is to develop a community and tools for freely sharing plant knowledge locally and globally.
The Open Food Network is an online marketplace for local food. It enables a network of independent online food stores that connects farmers with individuals and local businesses.
Tania is a free and open source farm management software. You can manage your farm areas, farm reservoirs, farm tasks, inventories, and the crop growing progress. It is designed for any type of farms.
Bahmni is an Open Source hospital Management System focusing on poor/underserved and public hospitals in the developing world. It’s aimed to being a generic system which can be used for multiple diseases and hospitals in different countries.
Diaperbase is an inventory system for diaper banks, to aid them in tracking their inventory and providing statistics about their inventory flows.
ERPNext is a top-rated Open Source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). Among other features, it also offers a Healthcare module to manage patient data, appointments, lab tests and more. Originally a separate module named smarteCare, it’s now integrated in the core itself.
GNU Health is a Free/Libre project for health practitioners, health institutions and governments. It provides the functionality of Electronic Medical Record (EMR), Hospital Management (HMIS) and Health Information System (HIS).
Safecast is a global volunteer-centered Citizen Science project working to empower people with open data about their environments. They currently offer two datasets of radiation and air quality in cpm (count per minute) and μSv/h (micro-Sievert per hour).
Kolibri makes high quality education technology available in low-resource communities such as rural schools, refugee camps, orphanages, non-formal school systems, and prison systems. It does so by providing an offline application
The software behind Wikipedia
Oppia is an online learning tool that enables anyone to create and share interactive activies. In addition the core team also maintains a set of free and effective lessons that are targeted at learners who lack access to educational resources.
SignDict is a german dictionary for sign language using the GSL. Currently it has over 4000 signs listed.
Diaperbase is an inventory system for diaper banks, to aid them in tracking their inventory and providing statistics about their inventory flows.
The Foundation for Environmental Monitoring is a nonprofit company developing open source products including hardware designed to help address issues related to water and soil
OpenEMS is a modular platform for energy management applications. It was developed around the requirements of controlling, monitoring and integrating energy storage systems together with renewable energy sources and complementary devices and services.
Safecast is a global volunteer-centered Citizen Science project working to empower people with open data about their environments. They currently offer two datasets of radiation and air quality in cpm (count per minute) and μSv/h (micro-Sievert per hour).
This Accessibility Project is a community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier by leveraging a worldwide community of developer knowledge.
Oppia is an online learning tool that enables anyone to create and share interactive activies. In addition the core team also maintains a set of free and effective lessons that are targeted at learners who lack access to educational resources.
OptiKey is an on-screen keyboard that is designed to help patients with Motor Neuron Disease (MND) interact with Windows computers. It can be used with eye-tracking devices, mouse or webcam. At the current time it has also been translated into 24 different languages and estimates around 2000 regular users
SignDict is a german dictionary for sign language using the GSL. Currently it has over 4000 signs listed.
A platform that allows information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, allowing anyone to submit information through text messaging using a mobile phone, email or web form. This should help to give power to marginalized people.
The Open Food Network is an online marketplace for local food. It enables a network of independent online food stores that connects farmers with individuals and local businesses.
The Foundation for Environmental Monitoring is a nonprofit company developing open source products including hardware designed to help address issues related to water and soil
An open-source Vessel Monitoring System (EU project) based on FLUX (Fisheries Language for Universal eXchange)
AutoFocus uses deep learning to identify the type of animal in “camera traps” photos. This frees up a lot of time for wildlife conservation efforts, for which this is often a major bottleneck.
The Foundation for Environmental Monitoring is a nonprofit company developing open source products including hardware designed to help address issues related to water and soil
Platform for making public freedom of information requests to public bodies. Alaveteli helps you lower the barriers that prevent citizens asking questions of those in power. Alaveteli has been implemented for 24 different countries
Reporting sexual assoult or professional sexual coercion can feel isolating – or worse, retraumatizing. To some it might also come with some risk. Callisto wants to change the equation and empower survivors, provide options and allow disclosure in a way that feels save. Under its many functionalities, one of them is to securely connect victims of the same perpetrator to identify repeat offenders.
Serenata compiles public information of Brazilian politicians and analyses it using an AI. It will then also point out suspicious transactions and provide statistics. Adaption for other countries is not planned, but supported by the maintainers.
Charity Base is an API that aggregates data from the 168,000 charities registered in England and Wales – potentially expanding to other countries in the future.
A collection and combination of multiple different tools for all possible communication means for Nonprofits. These include Auto-Response, Broadcast, Conference Line, Forwarder, Ringdowns, Surveys and more.
Platform for volunteers and projects to find each other. Volunteers can include time, advice or physical things.
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