Civic Tech Field Guide

Humanitarian Knowledge Base

San Francisco

Airtable with tools for digital humanitarian work

Code and Response challenge

IBM-sponsored challenge for creating and deploying open source technologies to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges

Sahana Eden ASP

Sweden (Sverige)

Sahana EDEN ASP is an open source humanitarian aid management application with a specific focus on refugee case management.

ICRC Rules on Personal Data Protection

Avenue de la Paix 19, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland

The ICRC responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected by armed conflict. We also respond to disasters in conflict zones, because the effects of a disaster are compounded if a country is already at war.

Irma Response Network

An online forum for community discussion

SF Heroes

San Francisco

Be an SF Hero by being prepared for an emergency, getting involved in your community, learning new skills, and more...Your friends will be impressed!

IP Observatory

Monash University, Wellington Rd, Clayton VIC, Australia

Internet insights for social good

Ethical Guidelines and Best Practices for the Use of Volunteered Geographic Information and Remotely Sensed Imagery in Crisis Situations

1200 New York Ave

This project will develop ethical principles and guidelines, as well as draft best practices for the use of remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in crisis situations.

WeFugees

Muskauer Str. 24, 10997 Berlin, Berlin, Germany

the first and only Multi-Stakeholder Question & Answer Community for refugee topics

refugees

Development Seed Vulnerable Housing pilot

Colombia

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

housing

Ushahidi

Nairobi

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

The State of Satellites

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.

Amnesty Decoders

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

human rights

Project Carola

Berlin

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

masks

Google Crisis Map

Mountain View, CA, USA

A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.

Imagining Drones for the Greater Good

IDEO brings together technologists and social innovators to imagine new uses for these “flying helpers"

Drones

PFIF missing persons

Canada

PFIF is a data model and an XML-based exchange format for sharing data about people who are missing or displaced by natural or human-made disasters.

Humanitarian Innovation Dashboard

Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The Humanitarian Information Dashboard (HID) tracks and analyzes community views and humanitarian related data during emergencies.

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.

Code for Australia Foresight

Victoria, Australia

Foresight is a platform that layers complex datasets into one single source of truth.

Code & Response (film)

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

Vframe

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

human rights

Voice of Kibera

Kenya

Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform

DSU

DSU is the official app of the Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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

CanDo

Everyone a humanitarian

BetaNYC Crowdsourcing food and services data

New York City

BetaNYC project

Humanitarian Data Exchange

The Hague, Netherlands

Find, share and use humanitarian data all in one place

Facebook Safety Check

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA

Crisis Response is a place on Facebook where you can find information about recent crises, use Safety Check to connect with friends and loved ones during a crisis, give or find help to people in the affected area, and create or donate to fundraisers to support recovery efforts.

Facebook

Ignis

Lincoln, NE, USA

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.

fires

MapAction

Oxfordshire, UK

An emergency map publishing system that supports humanitarian workers in the field

Outreach Grid

Irvine, CA

Collaborate across agencies to combat homelessness at the Point of Work on one unified platform.

homelessness

Open Crisis

Perimeter

Bay Area, CA, USA

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

apps
fires

World Food Programme Building Blocks

Building Blocks is a WFP corporate project and the humanitarian sector’s largest blockchain-based cash distribution system that leverages blockchain to coordinate with other humanitarian agencies and transfer cash assistance to refugees securely and efficiently.