The Organizer's Collaborative is a group that develops tech tools and training for social change. Realizing that there was no software available for small nonprofits and activist groups, the Collaborative made their own membership software free and downloadable in 2002. They named the program the Organizer's Database (ODB).

Ushahidi is an open source real time crowdsourcing tool that maps crisis incidents sent in through mobile phones. Like wordpress or tumblr, Ushadhidi is a platform. You can embed a map into your website or create your own separate version.

Users are permitted to study, change, improve, and distribute open source software (OSS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

Open data is the philosophy that certain data should be free from legal restrictions -- copyright, patents, etc. Proponents of the open data movement believe that particular data should be universally available for sharing, remixing, and reuse.

Open data abides by principles similar to other 'Open' movements -- open access, open content, open source, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data

Apps4Russia is a competition for application developers to create projects, based on open government data, for public use. Most importantly, the contest stipulates that projects must be beneficial to Russian society, as well as encourage transparency and government accountability.

The Apps4Russia competition is non-commercial, non-governmental, and non-political. The contest will run from June 30, 2011, to October 1, 2011.

http://www.apps4russia.ru/

http://www.epsiplus.net/news/news/apps4russia_announced

OpenWatch is a citizen media initiative that provides users with free and open source mobile technology capable of documenting abuses of power.

OpenWatch technology consists of a mobile phone application capable of invisibly recording audio and video. The belief is that such evidence can be used to unmask corrupt practices, and charge those responsible.

Aside from exposing corrupt dealings, OpenWatch maintains that this participatory project also strives to promote the importance of an open and transparent government.

http://www.openwatch.net/

DocumentCloud is a tool that enables the annotating, organizing, and sharing of documents amongst journalists.

The content a user uploads to DocumentCloud remains private until that user chooses to make it publicly accessible. Currently, DocumentCloud's public catalog contains transcripts, testimony, legislation, reports, memos, meeting minutes, correspondence, court filings, etc.

http://www.documentcloud.org/