Projects - Sustainable cities and communities

Urban Impact Agency

Berlin

We are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.

Govtech vendors

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

Numina

Brooklyn, NY

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

Terreform ONE

Brooklyn, NY

Terreform ONE is a nonprofit architecture and urban design research group. We endeavor to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.

Design

Detroit Urban Solutions

Detroit, MI

Bringing organizations in Detroit together for cross-sector collaboration on urban innovation.

Partner networks and coalitions

Municipales App

France

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

ClientEarth

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We are environmental charity with a unique approach - we use the power of our laws to protect life on Earth.

Legal tech

Awana Digital

San Francisco

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

Digital rights

AI4Cities

Europe

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

DesignTech

A design study and report on how digital technology is changing how we design cities

Design

Spark Eco

Spark Eco will invest in solar energy projects, fund non-profits working on solar projects in developing communities, and support land preservation efforts.

Open Forest Protocol

Lausanne

The Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is changing how forestation (reforestation, afforestation and conservation) projects are monitored, verified and funded with blockchain technology.

Diatom DAO

Ocean Protection, Decentralized

Atlas of Urban Expansion

New York University, New York, NY, USA

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

TownPress

Municipality & Town Government WordPress Theme

Website builder

Future Cities Catapult

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport & place leadership.

Tokyo's Metropolitan Open Source Public Guidelines

Tokyo

東京都オープン・ソース・ソフトウェア公開ガイドライン. Contribute to Tokyo-Metro-Gov/tokyo-oss-guideline development by creating an account on GitHub.

Dataphyte

Abuja, Nigeria

Dataphyte is a media research and data analytics organisation with the mission to deploy data tools and technology for the socio-economic development of Nigeria.

Sustainable cities and communities

Bruitparif

Axe Pleyel 4 B104 32 boulevard Ornano 93200 Saint-Denis Paris

Cette plateforme mise en œuvre par Bruitparif centralise les cartes stratégiques de bruit (CSB) disponibles au sein de la région Île-de-France dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la directive européenne 2002/49/CE.

The Good, The Bad and The Accountant

You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!

Games and gamification

Tackling the climate crisis with data: what the built-environment sector can do

Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

ZoningHub

ZoningHub gives municipalities a new way to post their #zoning regulations online. Big cities or small villages, ZoningHub is easy and accessible. #civictech

Mapping tools

Decide Madrid

Madrid (Spain)

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

ArcticHubs

Finland (Suomi)

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

Partner networks and coalitions

Engaged Cities Award

We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.

A Tu Nombre

Montevideo

A campaign to name more of Montevideo's streets after women

GreenAlert

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

Find Environmental Impact Assessments Near You. And register for alerts in your area.

Sustainable cities and communities

Service alerts

SCODA

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

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities

The Lab @ DC

John A. Wilson Building 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Suite 533 Washington, DC 20004

The Lab uses scientific insights and methods to test and improve policies and provide timely, relevant, and high-quality analysis to inform the District's most important decisions.

Curbie

With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.

London Civic Innovation Challenge

City Hall, London, UK

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

I Change My City

India (Bhārat)

Make your city better

Cities of the Future

10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001, USA

Each episode explores one idea or innovation that will transform cities.

Fundación Avina

Ciudad del Saber, Clayton, Panama City, Panama

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Foundation for Public Code

Amsterdam

We help Open Source projects for cities become successful, build sustainable communities around them and create a thriving public Open Source ecosystem.

Bloom Network

Bloom Network is an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. Local Bloom hubs around the world grow participation in practices such as food security, local economies, celebrations of diversity, and art as cultural transformation.

Sustainable cities and communities

CIV:Lab

335 Madison, 4th Floor, New York, NY, 10173

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

One Concern

Menlo Park, California, United States

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

Autogrid Flex

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.