Civic Tech Field Guide

Street Activity Sensors

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

Dot Go

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

Kenya Digital Public Works

Nairobi

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

ProofMode

Turn your photos and videos into secure, signed visual evidence

apps

The Verge's Police Brutality piece

A beautiful media tribute to the civilians who show up with cameras to document injustice

racial equity

Cameras

Sage

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

Smart Cities and sensors

Face the Facts app

Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.

apps

Baltimore City Council Bill 19-0429 requires the Department of Housing & Community Development to post signage on vacant buildings that will identify owners so that they can be held accountable by the public.

Cameras

Atlas of Surveillance

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities

Kit Split

To make VR production more accessible, rent professional cameras, lenses, lighting and more from 5-star vetted vendors in your neighborhood.

Rethink LinkNYC

New York City

Free Wi-Fi should really be free

Anti Ring

This is a project to counter the Amazon Ring doorbell camera surveillance infrastructure. We provide information for users and community members concerned about the country’s biggest company planting always-on cameras all over our streets.

How's my Driving NYC

NYC Department of Finance - Financial Business Center, Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Search New York City parking & camera violations

mobility

Mulțumesc

Romania

Absența la votul electronic a deputaților României

WITNESS

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

human rights

Jotto Video

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

apps

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

Obscuracam

Obscuracam is a photo and video app for Android that keeps certain information private. Last updated 2017.

apps

GetCalFresh

Code for America, Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

Apply for food stamps in 10 minutes

Access social benefits

Decolonize This Place

New York City

Decolonize This Place is an action-oriented movement centering around Indigenous struggle, Black liberation, free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification.

racial equity

Cameras

Copcast

Rio de Janeiro

Copcast is an open-source project that can turn any Android phone into a body-worn camera system for law enforcement, providing a more cost-effective and accessible solution for law enforcement officers around the world.

apps