Civic Tech Field Guide

Open Cities Africa

OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW

Climate Change AI

Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.

The Open Cities Accra Project seeks to make Alogboshie and its environs resilient to natural disasters, especially flooding. The project will also involve the remote mapping of Nima, Akweteman and Alajo.

Collective Care Is Our Best Weapon against COVID-19

Another Google Doc: a growing list of mutual aid pandemic disaster care

En première ligne

France

Fostering solidarity networks against the COVID-19

COVID-19

Neon Air

Colombia

HEAVY LIFT AND MICRO UAV / UAS FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE, INDUSTRIAL, CIVIL AND CONSTRUCTION

Humanity Road

Humanity Road is a disaster response 501c3 charity specializing in sourcing critical information and resources when disaster strikes.

Google Person Finder

Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.

Google

Micromappers

Supporting Disaster Response. With a Single Click!

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 check-in

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

Imagining Drones for the Greater Good

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

Drones

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.

Humanitarian Innovation Dashboard

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.

Vframe

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

human rights

Code & Response (film)

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

Voice of Kibera

Kenya

Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform. The project is an initiative of Map Kibera and uses the Ushahidi platform to aggregate and map citizen reports. The platform aggregates local citizen reports from the Kibera community media and other relevant news and information. In partnership with various local organizations, the Map Kibera team (http://mapkibera.org/) launched Voice of Kibera to visualize reporting in and about Kibera (one of the largest slums in Africa). The platform acts as a social reporting platform used to enhance resilience through community-led actions. It has become a dataset about the challenges faced by Kibera’s residents, the existing services and capacity (e.g. clinics, schools, water resources), and other relevant news and information about the area. Via a simple web-based reporting system, citizens of Kibera can report incidents, from security presence, to health, education, and natural disasters.

DSU

DSU is the official app of the Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs.DSU's aim is to provide citizens with a quick tool for information and reportings about critical situations and disasters which they are witnessing.What do you find inside DSU app: - articles, news and official statements of the Department for Emergency Situations;- information about weather alerts, traffic alerts and natural disasters;- a section for reporting events which you are witnesses (fire, flood, accident i.e.);- a section for informing you about how to act effectively in critical situations and the behaviour you should adopt;- tests for verifying your knowledge.We are excited to provide this useful tool and hope you will enjoy using it.DSU TeamPS: Your feedback is important to us. We welcome and appreciate your opinions, suggestions and rankings.

CanDo

Everyone a humanitarian

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

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

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

Facebook Safety Check

Facebook

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

MapAction

Oxfordshire, UK

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

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.