Physical technology, such as consumer electronics, built for civic tech
The African affiliate of the global Open Science Hardware community, plus its global summit
"...Open source hardware gives people the freedom to control their technology while sharing knowledge and encouraging commerce through the open exchange of designs."
Indigenius Keyboard is a smart, multilingual keyboard supporting inclusive digital communication in 180+ Languages.
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices to Protect American Consumers
Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices
Red Hook WiFi, a project of Red Hook Initiative (RHI), is a community-led effort to close the digital divide.
A better and faster way to track methane
We are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.
YAI’s Center for Innovation and Engagement understands how technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities better participate in their community.
Adaptable buttons and mice for everyone
The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.
Using integrated sensors and artificial intelligence, Livio AI enhances your listening experiences, proactively manages your health and provides access to information to simplify your life.
Our resource for the types of voting equipment we use to cast — and count — our votes by type and vendor.
Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.
A hardware table that lets people gather around it for collective decision-making processes
Access the internet simply and reliably where you are. BRCK is a rugged, self powered, cloud enabled wifi hotspot router with built in fail-overs.
The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.
Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.
This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.
This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.
People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers
RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.
Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India
Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.
Empowering rural communities with digital education
LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.
We’re building the world’s largest and fastest learning network around development challenges.
This is an open source hardware project to allow makers and the public to assemble mechanical respirators (aka. Ventilators, breathing machines) and/or intubation kits that could be used by medical professionals.
A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.
ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.
Our software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.