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Upward Mobility Data Dashboard

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

Reduced inequalities, No poverty
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YoMobi

YoMobi is a digital platform cooperative that empowers youth organisations by providing tools for skill development, learning, and community engagement to tackle youth unemployment and enhance socio-economic inclusion.

Johannesburg, South Africa
youth, Reduced inequalities, Decent work and economic growth, Quality education, apps

Chicago Truck Count

Counting trucks for environmental justice

mobility, air quality, city, environmental justice, Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities, Good health and well-being

New Practice Lab

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

Washington, DC
2020
Reduced inequalities

Air Quality Improvement and Monitoring

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

New York City
air quality, city, Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities

Spatial Equity NYC

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
city, streetscape, Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities, place-based

Theatre of the Oppressed NYC

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

New York City
Reduced inequalities, People Powered

Slum Dwellers International Data Portal

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

housing, Reduced inequalities, informal settlements

UNHCR Connecting Worlds Mentor

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

refugees, United Nations, 2023 Webby Awards, Reduced inequalities, Quality education, apps