Projects - Tech for public challenges

OpenPV

Germany

Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."

Climate action

FOROS

Vilnius, Lithuania

Foros is a forest management and investment platform.

Teplitsa Social Technologies

str. 1905, 10A, 3rd Floor, 127006, Moscow, p/58

Некоммерческий образовательный проект для гражданских активистов и IT-специалистов

A suite of tools designed to help survivors navigate barriers and define their own pathways toward healing and justice. Within Callisto Vault, survivors can access two tools: the Matching System and Encrypted Record Form.

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Preptrack

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

A2J Author

United States of America (the)

A2J Author aims to improve access to justice for people who represent themselves. The service hosts simplified legal information and resources created by legal professionals.

Human Rights Data Analysis Group

San Francisco

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.

Civil Resolution Tribunal

British Columbia

The Civil Resolution is an application for online dispute resolution. It helps resolve small claims and strata property disputes.

Matras 2

Qatar

Matras 2 offers a range of services, related to matters such as vehicle registration, immigration and visadocumentation, and loss of documents.

Project Drawdown

San Francisco

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

Climate action

Legal Health Check-up

Halton Community Legal Services, Dorval Drive, Oakville, ON, Canada

Halton Community Legal Services uses a guided process to help people who are living in poverty identify their legal problems and find a solution.

Facebook Safety Check

Facebook

Luftdaten

Stuttgart, Germany

Measure air quality yourself

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Legal Legends

South Africa

Legal Legends allows small businesses to purchase legal services at fixed prices on its platform.

Haqdarshak

India

Haqdarshak enables citizens to access government welfare schemes for which they are eligible. They provide onlineand offline support with documentation and applications.

LawzGrid

India

LawzGrid allows individuals and businesses to seek legal information, find a lawyer and create online legaldocuments based on their requirements.

Rechtwijzer

Netherlands (the)

Rechtwijzer is an online dispute resolution site. It provides legal remedies and online tools to help parties settledisputes without a lawyer.

Humanity Road

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

Pakistani Lawyer

Pakistan

Pakistani Lawyer is web-based platform that provides contact details of lawyers, as well as resources to educate students and non-lawyers about Pakistani law.

Laudelina

Brazil (Brasil)

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

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Mulika

Kenya

Mulika allows users to annoymously report corruption by government officials and other crimes through SMS. Userscan report a case by sending a text message, which is forwarded to relevant officials.

Perimeter

Bay Area, CA, USA

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

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My Legal Briefcase

Toronto

My Legal Briefcase helps individuals and businesses handle their legal cases with or without a lawyer. It also assistsusers in preparing simple legal documents.

Project Lemon Aid

Nigeria

Project Lemon Aid matches people awaiting trial behind bars with pro bono lawyers who can represent their case.

Illinois Legal AidOnline

Illinois

Illinois Legal Aid Online presents legal resources and information about legal aid in a simple and accessible manner.

Re-focus

Australia

Re-focus is a mobile application that provides legal information and welfare advice for women who are separated orare thinking of separating.

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LegalApp

Colombia

Digital tool that helps Colombian citizens know where, how and what to do regarding their everyday legal paperwork

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.

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Wagbot

New Zealand

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

Hukoomi

Qatar

Hukoomi is an e-governance application which provides access to a broad range of information, including legal information for business, and information about visa and immigration procesess.

C-App

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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.

Civis

Mumbai

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

Fired Without Cause

Canada

Fired Without Cause helps users understand whether their employer treated them fairly. The app also has a severance pay calculator.

Blockchange

2 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

DilseWill

India

DilSeWill is an online platform where users can create a will, and have it mailed to them after completion

LawyerLinx

Canada

LawyerLinx is a legal marketplace where individuals and businesses can find lawyers on demand.

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

Law Padi

Nigeria

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

Famalia

Kenya

Famalia is an SMS-based tool that seeks to inform people about succession law.

Queensland Law Handbook

Queensland, Australia

Queensland Law Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible resource designed to help Queensland residents withtheir legal problems.

PLP 2.0

Brazil (Brasil)

The PLP 2.0 mobile application allows victims of domestic violence to report violence. Users feeling threatened bya former or current partner can use the app to report the issue to the police. The app allows a user to contact thepolice by using the phone’s power button. The police receives an alert as well as the GPS location of the user at risk offacing abuse.

Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools

We propose an effort to develop a “Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools”. This will be delivered by an informal group of like-minded organizations coming together around a common purpose.

New Story

San Francisco

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

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Data Cívica

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Más datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.

Dear Landlord

Australia

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.