We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.

• Civic hackathons
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Providing citizens, journalists, and civic activists with a practical and easy-to-use tool to understand the ownership structure of the world they live in, demonstrating the practical applications of open information for normal citizens

Find news, appeals decisions & best practice for development management & strategic planners on PlanningResource

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

MedAfrica is your direct access to health information and services. With this app you can search, filter and view health information and services near you even when offline as well as connect with doctors on the go. Other services include Hospitals, Diagnosis, Symptoms, Nutrition, Drugs, First Aid, Insurance and Fitness. Med Africa personalizes your health services by frequency of use.

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality. SAM™ is designed by a world-renowned industrial designer, Ross Lovegrove. With proprietary sensing technology, SAM™ can identify the presence of toxins in the air, then initiate actions through an API with cloud computing; and, execute appropriate counter-measures to improve indoor air quality, comfort, and energy efficiency.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D