Projects - Tech for public challenges

AgriStack

India (Bhārat)

Agri Stack is the digital foundation being set up by the government to make it easier to bring various stakeholders together to improve agriculture in India and enable better outcomes and results for the farmers by using data and digital services.

agriculture

Delete Nothing

Colombo, Sri Lanka

Delete Nothing aims to document technology-related gender-based violence in Sri Lanka, particularly but not limited to the experiences of girls, women, and queer and trans people in Sri Lanka.

OpenPV

Germany (Deutschland)

Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."

FOROS

Vilnius, Lithuania

Foros is a forest management and investment platform.

Teplitsa Social Technologies

str. 1905, 10A, 3rd Floor, 127006, Moscow, p/58

Некоммерческий образовательный проект для гражданских активистов и IT-специалистов

Callisto Vault

San Francisco

A suite of tools designed to help survivors navigate barriers and define their own pathways toward healing and justice. Within Callisto Vault, survivors can access two tools: the Matching System and Encrypted Record Form.

harassment

Preptrack

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

LawGives

Canada

LawGives is an online legal service platform. Users can input their legal problem and the site generates free quotes and consultations from registered attorneys.

LawzGrid

India (Bhārat)

LawzGrid allows individuals and businesses to seek legal information, find a lawyer and create online legaldocuments based on their requirements.

Find a legal aid adviser

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Find A Legal Aid Adviser is an online tool through which users can find a legal aid adviser or a family mediator.

United Kingdom (government)

Tele Law

India (Bhārat)

Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.

Blockchange

2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

Aspiration Tech Manifesto

PO Box 880264, San Francisco, CA 94188-0264

Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization.

Medsaf

Nigeria

Medsaf is a curated medication marketplace for African hospitals and pharmacies.

Good health and well-being

Tech for public challenges

Movilizatorio

Bogotá

Somos un laboratorio de participación ciudadana e innovación social en Colombia incubado por Purpose. Citizen participation and social innovation lab for Colombia and Latin America.

Justika

Indonesia

Justika offers real-time legal support over the telephone for a broad range of problems, such as marriage, inheritance, and employment.

Pokket

75 5th Street NW Atlanta, GA 30308

Pokket℠ connects justice agencies and human service providers with returning citizens to break the cycle.

recidivism

Dear Landlord

Australia

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

landlord

Famalia

Kenya

Famalia is an SMS-based tool that seeks to inform people about succession law.

Immi

New York, NY

Immi helps immigrants understand their rights and options during the immigration process. The website’s guided process helps users determine their path to legal immigration, and offers a list of organisations and self-help resources.

immigration

Copernicus

Avenue d'Auderghem 45, Brussels, Belgium

The European Union Earth Observation Programme

Bots for Charity

Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USA

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

Lawger

Canada

Lawger uses an online bidding system to connect people with lawyers. Once users submit their legal problem, lawyers registered with the programme can bid on the case.

Code & Response (film)

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

CanDo

Everyone a humanitarian

Gavel.ng

Lagos

Gavel is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through digital technology and citizen engagement.

LegalApp

Colombia

Digital tool that helps Colombian citizens know where, how and what to do regarding their everyday legal paperwork

Legal Legends

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Legal Legends allows small businesses to purchase legal services at fixed prices on its platform.

SMS for Justice

India (Bhārat)

SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.

criminal justice

Refugees United

Kampala Accountancy Bureau, Plot 3 Wampewo Avenue, Kampala, Uganda

REUNITE's family tracing platform helps refugees and displaced persons search, connect and communicate with their loved ones. Here is how we do it.

refugees

Presolv360

India (Bhārat)

Presolv360 is an online dispute prevention service that aims to prevent legal disputes and litigation. The Presolv forAll service is available as a free service for underprivileged members of the society.

Online Mediation Center

National Law School of India University, Gnana Bharathi Main Road, Opp NAAC, Teachers Colony, Naagarabhaavi, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Online Mediation Center is a pilot project at the National Law School in Bangalore, and provides online tools to address consumer grievances.

Maryland Law HelpApp

Maryland

Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

apps

Wukla

Pakistan

Wukla is an online platform where users can create agreements and legal documents, and have these delivered to their house.

TechSoup

435 Brannan St, San Francisco, California, USA

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

Project Drawdown

San Francisco

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

My Legal Briefcase

Toronto

My Legal Briefcase helps individuals and businesses handle their legal cases with or without a lawyer. It also assistsusers in preparing simple legal documents.

PLP 2.0

Brazil (Brasil)

The PLP 2.0 mobile application allows victims of domestic violence to report violence

The Layman's Lawyer

India (Bhārat)

On the Layman’s Lawyer, individuals and businesses can offer or request services related to online documentcreation.

Pocket Law

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe to use this legal library.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) (HOTOSM)

1100 13th Street NW Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20005

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

The Internet of Ownership

New York City

The Internet of Ownership is a resource for the emerging online democratic economy.

Open Artificial Pancreas System project (#OpenAPS)

#WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes

diabetes

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."