Civic Tech Field Guide

DEcentralised Citizen-owned Data Ecosystems (DECODE)

Europe

an experimental project to enable practical alternatives to how we manage our personal data and interact on the internet

Digital Transparency in the Public Realm

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program

Bloomberg Philanthropies, 25 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075, USA

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

Intel's Big Data for Precision Farming

University of California, Davis, Shields Avenue, CA, USA

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

Taggespiegel Bike Data Interactiv

Berlin

Wir messen, wo Autos Radfahrer eng überholen.

cycling

Soofa

24 Thorndike Street, Cambridge, MA 02141

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

public space

Google.org Global Impact Awards

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Google

CityDigital stormwater management

A new cloud-based platform addresses urban flooding problems through green infrastructure performance monitoring.

Clean water and sanitation

iSeeChange

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

CivicSmart

Innovation has been at the core of our corporate DNA since 1936, and the last several years have seen a wave of innovation that is delivering the promise of Smart Parking to cities of all sizes.

Purple Air

110 West 13800 South, Draper, UT 84020, USA

A low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.

air quality

Calgary's noise-sensing network

Calgary, AB, Canada

Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government partnership.

cities
noise

Safecast

Sea Level Rise Toolbox

Miami

Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels

Climate action

Placelet

Cambridge, MA

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

Hush City

Hardenbergstraße 40, 10623 Berlin, Germany

With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.

Hello Lampost

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

cities

PlumeLabs

Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.

Open Connectivity Foundation

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) create a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunity in the IoT market, accelerating industry innovation and helping developers and companies create solutions that map to a single open specification. The OCF’s vision for IoT is that billions of connected devices (devices, phones, computers and sensors) will communicate with one another regardless of manufacturer, operating system, chipset or transport. With the OCF fulfilling this promise, anyone – from a large technology company to a maker in their garage – can adopt the open standards of OCF to innovate and compete, helping ensure secure interoperability for consumers, business, and industry.

Rethink LinkNYC

New York City

Free Wi-Fi should really be free

PlusPool

New York City

A water-filtering floating pool in New York for everybody

Clean water and sanitation

Sidewalk Toronto

307 Lake Shore Blvd E, Toronto, ON M5A 1C1, Canada

A vision for unlocking the eastern waterfront’s potential.

Smart Cities Expo

Barcelona, Spain

Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

Harlem Heat Project

Harlem, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

Produced with AdaptNY and ISeeChange, along with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WNYC's resilience reporting is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.

FutureAir

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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

Future of Privacy Forum on Smart Cities

Takadu

TaKaDu is a leading provider of Integrated Event Management solutions, enabling water utilities to improve efficiency and make smarter decisions.

HeatSeek

New York City

Heat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.

housing

Beijing Air Tracks

Beijing

The causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments. In reality, the total experience of a city’s air quality is a combination of highly localized as well as more regional effects that shift in intensity as one moves through an urban landscape.

air quality