An open-source movement shipping tech for the public good.
AI is handing humanity almost unimaginable power, but the speed and breadth of this shift are accelerating the wealth gap and concentrating power in the hands of a few.
Right now, most of the technology that dictates our lives is driven by private interest, designed to capture attention and maximize profit rather than serve the public. We cannot rely on a few corporations to build everything our society needs from AI, and we cannot afford the risk that they won't.
If left entirely to commercial incentives, AI will widen social divides and leave the most critical societal problems under-resourced. We desperately need a parallel ecosystem — Public AI — that runs on non-commercial incentives, where technology is accessible, transparent, and built for everyone.
Our approach is simple but radical: we use open-source collaboration to turn changemakers into builders, and builders into changemakers. By bringing together developers who want to do good and domain experts who deeply understand the problems, we are removing the friction of building public-interest tech — and championing a culture that encourages keeping the tools we build public, free, and open.
Right now, AI is dissolving the traditional barriers to entry. The cost of software creation is collapsing, and the gap between knowing a problem deeply and shipping a solution has never been smaller. We are harnessing this shift to ship digital infrastructure that actually matters.
Community Impact
Always Building
Devs, designers, students, self-taught hackers using their skills for something larger than a series A.
Social workers, teachers, organizers, NGO staff. The people who know the problems and now, finally, can build the solutions.
Content creators, event hosts, writers, translators, illustrators. The work that turns scattered projects into a culture.
You don't have to code. You don't have to know what a Git branch is. You don't have to have ever called yourself technical. You need a problem worth solving and a few hours a week.
A few hours every week where we sit down, discuss problems, team up, and actually ship impactful open source projects solving local problems for the public.
We team up and partner with NGOs to properly maintain and develop projects that are actually useful to the communities they serve.
We post about the work, share what we're building, and try to make sure good projects don't just disappear into GitHub. Too many do.
We help fellow members and non-technical changemakers build, advocate for open and public tech, and create awareness content on the risks and potential of AI.
Three beliefs we keep coming back to. They shape what we build and who we build it with.
Every project is encouraged to be open and built in public. The point isn't just sharing code. It's so the next person can pick it up, fork it, and ship something better. Public knowledge compounds when it's shared.
Not everything worth building gets funded. We build it anyway. Tools for NGOs, communities, and the people who serve them. Not the next startup. Not a side hustle. Tech as public infrastructure.
Changemakers become builders. Builders become changemakers. You don't need to be a developer to ship something useful. You need to be close to the problem and willing to figure the rest out.
Four projects shipped, more in active development. Every project here is open-source. Every project here was built with the community that needed it. Use them. Fork them. Bring them to your city.
A website for an NGO doing real work.
Pocket of Pink is a Malaysian NGO. They needed a website that matched the seriousness of their mission. We built it with them, in the open.
Open data tracking AI adoption across 16 countries.
Interactive visualization and open data API tracking AI adoption from UAE at 64% to Nigeria at 7%. Data sourced from Microsoft, Stanford HAI, OECD, and 11 other authoritative sources.
Turn your reading library into a shareable poster.
Import from Goodreads or Hardcover, pick a visualization style, and download. Built on World Book Day to raise awareness for global literacy — 773 million adults cannot read.
A directory of Malaysia's NGOs, with an API anyone can build on.
Civil society shouldn't be hard to find. OpenNGO is a public directory of Malaysian NGOs with structured data, search, and an open API. Built for journalists, funders, and researchers.
Built right here. Malaysian public-interest tech, made by people who saw what was missing and shipped it themselves.
Malaysia's open data, one front door.
The country's public data platform. Dashboards, downloadable datasets, public APIs. No key required.
Tracking all 222 Members of Parliament.
A volunteer-built site that tracks Malaysia's MPs across attendance, motions, and service centres. Parliamentary data, made legible.
A QR directory for donating to mosques and suraus.
Crowdsourced and open-source. One developer saw the friction in giving to local institutions and shipped the directory the community needed.
Find a pasar malam, any night.
A directory of night markets across Malaysia. Days, hours, locations, directions. The kind of small civic tool the market won't build but a community will.
