worldmonitor

World Monitor is a free, open‑source dashboard that streams live geopolitical intelligence to a single map interface. You can view the map immediately, with no sign‑up required. At the core of the tool are 58 different map layers, each representing a distinct type of signal, geopolitics, shipping, aviation, markets, cyber, weather, and more. The data comes from 469 news and OSINT feeds supplied by 774 attributed providers, so every visual element on the map has a source that can be traced back to an original feed.

When you open the dashboard, the map loads in seconds and lets you drag and drop layers. For example, turning on the “Maritime chokepoints” layer reveals 13 critical passages like the Strait of Hormuz or the Suez Canal, each annotated with a disruption score that reflects real‑time change in vessel flows. Switching to the “Markets” layer shows a published pulse of equities, crypto, and commodities, with each asset's price and percentage change. The “Country risk” layer brings together sanctions, official alerts, escalation events, and a resilience score that ranks 170 countries. These layers are derived from the same feeds, so when a news headline appears near a chokepoint, you can immediately see how it may impact maritime movement or market pricing.

World Monitor's workflow is built around three “evidence trails.” If you need to confirm a breaking claim, you click the “Verify a breaking event” trail and the dashboard pulls the latest crisis trackers and cited context from the feeds that discuss that event. If you want to see the impact on a specific shipping lane, you choose “Check a chokepoint” and the system displays vessel flow, risk level, and potential disruptions for that passage. For an in‑depth country analysis, the “Explain a country‑risk move” trail aggregates political, security, economic, and resilience indicators into a single view, letting you trace the underlying causes behind a country's risk shift.

The tool is open source under AGPL‑3.0 and is distributed as a REST API, an MCP server, and language‑specific packages on npm, PyPI, Go, and RubyGems. No API key is required; developers can pull the same feeds and timestamps that the web interface uses.