Is the City Support Programme (CSP) of National Treasury initiative to help cities improve their governance performance, with a particular focus on land development and infrastructure development. The project will provide cities with perspectives for understanding their governance challenges related to land and infrastructure development, a framework for assessment and a range of tools that help improve integrity, social accountability and transparency performance and unlock solutions to often complex problems. the project focuses on three key work areas/themes:Integrity, Social Accountability and Smart Governance
Implementing Innovation: A User’s Manual for Open Government Programs is a hands-on resource that provides practical advice and guidance for government changemakers as they navigate the specific challenges of implementing innovative programs in the public sector.
Legal Legends allows small businesses to purchase legal services at fixed prices on its platform.
The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.
Haki Law App intends to make knowledge about laws easily accessible. The mobile application provides legalinformation and connects citizens to lawyers.
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.
Our goal is to exponentially accelerate our ability to address global challenges that threaten our existence.
Wetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.
The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.
[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from paper to digital and in some cases from a deeds system to titles—and create the world’s first electronic land registration system
Legal Smart Channel is a web application that helps the public understand legal issues online, by offering free access to legal consultancy services.
The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.
Queensland Law Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible resource designed to help Queensland residents withtheir legal problems.
Haqdarshak enables citizens to access government welfare schemes for which they are eligible. They provide onlineand offline support with documentation and applications.
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES
Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes
yAvo is a free legal advice service where users can post legal or law related queries on the platform, which are thenanswered by lawyers and legal professionals registered on the site.
The Nigerian Law blog publishes blogposts to educate users on legal issues. It also engages users through social media by publishing information about laws and citizens’ rights.
The Internet of Ownership is a resource for the emerging online democratic economy.
Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges
We are focused on leveraging leapfrog technologies and an ecosystem of partners to offer rural, underserved communities affordable and holistic solutions for their basic needs. Our data insights revealed that families in Buikwe spend up to $20 a month to access unclean energy (charcoal), unclean water, limited healthcare, and no electricity. Our solution will solve these challenges through providing telemedicine, microfinance, smart agriculture, solar power, insurance, internet connectivity and clean water, at only $8 a month
Showcasing re-useable tools built across Africa and the people & organisations building them. Civic technologists do not need to reinvent the wheel. Civic software solutions to pressing developmental challenges already exist elsewhere in the world, and often simply need be customised or adapted to local requirements. Locally developed software solutions are also appropriate for reuse elsewhere on the continent, and the wider world. The challenge is discovery: end-user organisations and technologists are seldom aware of existing solutions elsewhere and/or struggle to find credible recommendations that are sensitive to local operational requirements. africanCOMMONS is a platform to showcase re-useable tools built across Africa and the people & organizations building them.
C-App provides guidance, support, and advice for most parts of the application process for Employment and Support Allowance and Personal Independent payment benefits, respectively.
CivVic Labs brings government and startups together to solve public sector challenges and deliver better outcomes for Victorians.
UI LABS is an innovation accelerator that brings Universities, Industry, and Government together to deliver solutions to tomorrow’s challenges.
School Finder is an online tool for parents or guardians to find the right school for their kids.
Encounters in Citizen Science The European conference for citizen and participatory science 2020 in Trieste, Italy.
IDEO brings together technologists and social innovators to imagine new uses for these “flying helpers"
Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.
Wish you had a better way to make sense of Twitter during disasters than this? Type in a keyword like #ChileEarthquake in Twitter's search box above and you'll see more tweets than you can possibly read in a day let alone keep up with for more than a few minutes. Wish there way were an easy, free and open…
Legal Services Commission of South Australia’s Legal Chat service provides live chat support during working hours.
It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.
The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.
To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.
LawzGrid allows individuals and businesses to seek legal information, find a lawyer and create online legaldocuments based on their requirements.
LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.
World Central Kitchen and its partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day.
The Humanitarian Information Dashboard (HID) tracks and analyzes community views and humanitarian related data during emergencies.
A low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.
Foresight is a platform that layers complex datasets into one single source of truth.
The Foundation for Inclusion is the world's only organization focused exclusively and relentlessly on the end game in social impact: what it will take to achieve ultimate success against the world's most stubborn challenges. We collaborate with changemakers in all sectors to solve large-scale social problems. Join us!
NetHope is a collaboration of leading international NGOs serving tens of millions each year in 180+ countries.
Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.
NYC BigApps is the premier civic innovation competition in New York City that challenges tech experts to apply their know-how to improve NYC.