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OpenHighway is an open-source civic transparency platform designed to track how highway funding moves from its original sources—such as taxes, tolls, and federal allocations—through government agencies, contracts, and contractors, all the way to completed infrastructure projects. It provides a unified, auditable system for visualizing revenue, spending, and project outcomes to improve public accountability in transportation infrastructure. https://roxanneardary.com/openhighway/

InfraOpen – Power, Internet, Insight — All in One Place. An open-source platform providing transparent, state-by-state profiles of electricity and internet utility providers. Tracks ownership, board members, billing compliance, rates, infrastructure coverage, and sustainability metrics, empowering citizens, regulators, and researchers with actionable utility intelligence.

OpenSkill Registry is a privacy-first, AI-powered open-source platform that connects verified individuals with real-world skills to local, short-term, and flexible work opportunities. Designed as civic infrastructure under the AGPL 3.0+ license, it enables retirees and job seekers to list their skills, control their privacy, and match with employers through intelligent search and real-time micro-gig availability. The system strengthens local economies by making experience searchable, trusted, and immediately usable.

Solvra is an open-source financial modeling engine designed to simulate loans under a controlled, transparent amortization system. It applies a capped-interest rule based on a 15-year maximum effective interest window and redistributes total interest evenly across the full loan term, producing predictable, linear payment structures for scenario analysis, affordability testing, and structured financial planning.

Scans every federal contract above $1M from USASpending.gov bulk data for one pattern: recipients with no prior federal contract history landing awards of $25M+ (or $10M+ on sole-source and single-offer contracts). A structural filter excludes ~1,600 verified entity types where no prior history is expected. Flags publish monthly at contractwatch.org. Python, Cloudflare Pages, MIT licensed. No agency affiliation.

[2011] Emergency flood forecasting system from Thailand's 2011 crisis. Provided 5-day ARIMA predictions with spatial interpolation across Bangkok, enabling 13 million residents to protect homes when official models failed, shared via public platforms.