Scripto is a lightweight, open source tool for crowdsourcing transcriptions for Humanities projects. Projects utilizing Scripto can manage contributions via full editorial controls and a versioning history.

Prism is a visualization tool that represents texts based on crowdsourced interpretations. Users are encouraged to highlight words in a text according to categories ("facets"). Users' individual interpretations contribute to a visualization combining the interpretations of all users of the text. As such, it reveals patterns in subjective readings of a text.

Community Contributed Collection (CoCoCo) is web software developed by the RunCoCo Project at the University of Oxford for collecting, cataloguing and managing web content such as text or uploaded files contributed by a community of users. It enables administrators to assess contributions for quality, approve project-appropriate contributions, and apply metadata where required. Once a contribution is approved, it is available for searching and browsing through the provided interface. CoCoCo utilizes Ruby on Rails, and is available under an Open Source version 3.0 license.

Eris Solver is a free crowd-solver for complex problems. It implements an innovative way to solve complex problems by adapting brainstorming technique to a Problem Tree Analysis and by channelling Collective Intelligence. When simple problem may require a unique solution to be solved, Complex problems behave differently and multiple solutions are sometimes necessary to solve them. On the contrary to simple problem that may not need further deepening, a complex problem may be broken up in multiple small ones that help us understand the big picture. Every branch of the issue tree represent a different aspect of the problem, problems can be decomposed this way until reaching the bottom line where solutions to the ultimate sub-issues are added. Eris Solver uses an interdisciplinary approach and users are allocated into six major areas of expertise

Ushahidi is a software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping, to build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories. It has been used for election monitoring, crisis and emergency response, civil society, city/community building, arts and even where to find the best burger.

Specific tools:

Crowdmap: A simple map-making tool, built on an open API, that allows for collaborative mapping

Swiftriver: Curate real-time data and analysis from a variety of sources, including social media streams

CrisisNET: A consolidated source of global crisis data

Ping: Two-way multichannel group alert during an emergency

SMSSync: Create a two way gateway with an Android phone and local SIM anywhere in the world

BRCK: Supports connectivity in remote locations, self-powered, mobile WiFi device

1) The user uploads a .csv file of data points and their locations.

2) A group of users all add their own data location points to the map, on their own time from their own devices.

Each point can include text, video, image, or audio annotations.

Basic functionality is free; larger uploads and large numbers of maps require a paid subscription.