Adjacent Fields > Tech for public challenges - (163)

There's a rich ecosystem of related and overlapping fields with civic tech, including those that predate civic tech. People define the field with broader or more narrow scopes in mind, so here we track related work areas.

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Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance

Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance

United States of America 🇺🇸

This Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out actionable recommendations for governments, civil society, researchers, and industry to design digital platforms that reduce harm and increase benefit to society

AgriStack

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.

Delete Nothing

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

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

FOROS

Vilnius, Lithuania

Foros is a forest management and investment platform.

Teplitsa Social Technologies

Teplitsa Social Technologies

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

Некоммерческий образовательный проект для гражданских активистов и IT-специалистов

Callisto Vault

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.

Preptrack

Preptrack

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

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.

Law for Me

Law for Me

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.

Demander Justice

Demander Justice

France 🇫🇷

Demander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.

Maryland Law HelpApp

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

Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

Tele Law

Tele Law

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

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

Medsaf

Medsaf

Nigeria 🇳🇬

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

Proterra

Proterra

1815 Rollins Road, Burlingame, CA 94010

Heavy-duty electric vehicle manufacturer delivering clean, quiet transportation for all.

Fine Fixer

Fine Fixer

Australia 🇦🇺

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

Nonprofit Tech Conference (NTC)

Nonprofit Tech Conference (NTC)

621 SW Alder St, Portland, OR 97205

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.

HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)

HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)

Fluwelen Burgwal 582511, The Hague, The Netherlands

User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

Libre AI

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."

Platform point cooperation 平台點合作

This book lists a number of different cases and explains the prospects and development of future platform cooperation ahead of the 2018 Platform Cooperativism Alliance Conference.

Google Person Finder

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

Legal Chat

Legal Chat

Australia 🇦🇺

Legal Services Commission of South Australia’s Legal Chat service provides live chat support during working hours.

Pokket

Pokket

75 5th Street NW Atlanta, GA 30308

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

BuiltWorlds

BuiltWorlds is the premier research-driven network operating at the intersection of the built industry and technological innovation

MetaSUB

MetaSUB

413 E 69th St, New York, NY 10021

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

Civil Resolution Tribunal

The Civil Resolution is an application for online dispute resolution. It helps resolve small claims and strata property disputes.

Code for Australia ORBIT

Code for Australia ORBIT

Victoria, Australia

Helping staff and volunteers make accurate referrals across the legal assistance sector in Victoria.

Wonder.Legal

Wonder.Legal

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

Wonder.Legal provides users with a guided process to create legal documents for personal and business purposes.

Sauti

Sauti

Nairobi

Sauti is a mobile-based platform allows cross-border traders to access real-time market prices, exchange rates and trade procedures, using a basic phone.

Legistify

Legistify

India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳

Legistify is a platform where people in need of legal assistance can find a lawyer.

Wagbot

Wagbot

New Zealand 🇳🇿

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

PakAirQuality

PakAirQuality

Pakistan 🇵🇰

Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.

The Internet of Ownership

The Internet of Ownership

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

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

Project Drawdown

Project Drawdown

San Francisco

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

Project Callisto

Project Callisto

United States of America 🇺🇸

Project Callisto helps survivors of sexual assault and harassment on college campuses document sexual assault, seek counseling, and start an investigation.

Movilizatorio

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.

Dear Landlord

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.

Fast Forward

Fast Forward

San Francisco

Fast Forward — Accelerating technology nonprofits. Fast Forward provides funding, training, mentorship, and community for tech-based nonprofits.

Good Call NYC

Good Call NYC

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Good Call NYC provides support during an arrest process. Its 24/7 hotline puts people in touch with lawyers, free of charge.

E-court

E-court

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

E-Court specialises in private and civil online dispute resolution. It aims to provide administrative justice at low costs.

Data Lanterns

Data Lanterns

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

Wetaase

Wetaase

Kampala

Wetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.

Laudelina

Laudelina

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

Civis

Civis

Mumbai

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

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