InfraTracker is a free, public-interest platform that maps the cost and status of 1,100+ capital projects across 132 countries, totaling over $929 billion in tracked investment. The platform standardizes data from funder databases, government records, and press releases into a unified schema with every fact sourced, helping journalists, researchers, and citizens hold authorities accountable.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Public infrastructure projects—highways, railways, dams, and power plants—are financed with public money, yet their costs, milestones, and funders are scattered across incompatible databases, government records, and press releases. This fragmentation makes independent oversight difficult, allowing cost overruns, delays, and mismanagement to go unnoticed until it is too late.
Solution
InfraTracker provides a free, non-commercial, open platform that aggregates and standardizes data on capital projects worldwide into a single searchable record. The platform maps projects on a global dashboard, displaying total cost, funding sources, status, and geographic location, with every fact linked directly to an official source document. InfraTracker verifies data integrity through a database schema that enforces sourcing, while transparently displaying unknown information to avoid hidden estimates. Users can explore projects interactively, filter by region, type, or status, and access detailed dossiers that include cost breakdowns and progress updates.
Target Audience
Primary users are journalists, researchers, policy analysts, and civic watchdogs who need reliable, source-backed data on public infrastructure spending. The platform also serves citizens seeking to verify the progress and cost of major projects funded by public money.
Features
- Global interactive map covering 1,169 projects across 132 countries with filterable attributes for region, project type, status, and cost range
- Standardized open data schema published for reuse by researchers, journalists, and institutions to facilitate external analysis and integration
- Every fact cited to an official source document, with corrections and source suggestions accepted from the community
- Detailed project dossiers with cost breakdowns, milestone tracking, and funding attribution, including data from development banks and government agencies
- Citizen field-reporting app that allows on-the-ground updates and reporting on project conditions
- Platform operates free and without requiring user accounts, with no advertising or commercial data exploitation