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Archive for public good technology apps serving UN Sustainable Development Goals. (Links provided on this page may be invalid.)

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Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

Acres is the best way to find urban farmland online for the Sacramento region.

Their Mission:       Help farmers find available land by using data from the city

Founder(s):           Grant Smith and Code for America in partnership with The City of West Sacramento and SACOG

Location:               California, United States

Learn More:           Acres / Archived: January 08, 2020

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Break Zika App allows people to monitor and publish virus outbreaks onto a city map. It encourages reporting, treatment and sharing, and also helps identify mosquito carriers. The app partners with government agencies, which simplifies controls to take action by allowing all publications to be sent to a platform accessed by the public sector.

Their Mission:       Reduce the outbreak of dangerous viruses

Founder(s):           Colab.re in partnership with various municipalities and government agencies across the world

Location:               Porto Alegré, Brazil

Learn More:           Break Zika and download the App / Archived: January 08, 2020

Concrn app is a compassionate social service network and mobile app that connects people in need to volunteer responders trained in crisis intervention and mediation. It allows citizens to report someone having a mental health crisis. First responders such as firefighters, police, and paramedics will get a text message of the report, and app users will see an update message when a responder is on the way. The app helps alleviate the tension between law enforcement and local residents, which is a big problem locally and nationally.

Their Mission:       Offer an alternative to calling 911 for many crisis situations

Founder(s):           Jacob Savage and Neil Shah of Compassionate Response Network

Location:               The Bay Area in California, United States

Learn More:           Concrn / Archived: January 08, 2020

Doctor D customizes recommendations regarding HIV & STD testing, HIV prevention, and vaccinations. The app empowers guys to stay on top of their sexual health.

Doctor D is made by David Ernst and Prevention Health Labs. Doctor D is based in the United States.

Their Mission:       Help men locate nearby sexual health services

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Learn More:           Doctor D / Archived: January 08, 2020

Footprint is a web app that prompts you to take a quiz about your lifestyle and shows how your carbon footprint compares to others.

Their Mission:       Spread carbon footprint awareness

Founder(s):           Hannah Lim and Jessica Brush

Location:               California, United States

Learn More:           Footprint twitter / Archived: January 21, 2020

The Maya App is a streamlined and secure application designed specifically for busy doctors. The app lets you become a key part of a network of doctors with the latest in mobile health tools at their fingertips. They are all collaborating and sharing patient information, and helping to inform one another and the community around them on the challenges and breakthroughs affecting the health of their patients.

Their Mission:       Create a more efficient and effective healthcare environment

Founder(s):           Maya Health Network

Location:               United States

Languages:          

Learn More:           Maya App / Archived: January 08, 2020

Ottawa's Heart helps you to find the nearest defibrillator, submit new ones, and approve existing listings. Sudden Cardiac Arrest kills more than a 1,000 people each day, it is one of the leading causes of death. Defibrillators are easy to use, effective, and places all around, but being unable to find a defibrillator in an emergency decreases the chance of survival 7-10% every minute.

Their Mission:       Help you and others save cardiac arrest victims

Founder(s):           David Rust-Smith, Phil Vanstone, and Nick Breen.

Learn More:           Ottawa's Heart / Archived: January 22, 2020

SPX Dengue is an application that takes a different approach in the campaign against dengue fever in an educational and captivating game as well as a supplier of more information. The game teaches how to identify mosquitos, ways to protect oneself and family and how to spot the symptoms of dengue.

Their Mission:       Combat the huge effects of dengue fever

Founder(s):           the State Department of Health of São Paulo

Location:              

Learn More:           Information and Download the App / Archived: January 08, 2020

Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning

ChangeX is a platform that coaches students in technical skill building and design thinking methods as they participate in social impact challenges. Cities, organizations, companies, and schools can create challenges for youth ages 13–24 to learn modern skills. Current ChangeX challenges run from two to six months with 50 to 50,000 learners.

Their Mission:       Teach youth aged 13-24 skills by creating social impact challenges

Founder(s):           Libby Falck

Location:               The Bay Area in California, United States

Learn More:           ChangeX / Archived: January 21, 2020

Conecturma helps kids between 3 and 11 years old learn how to read. The platform integrates textbooks, an adaptive and gamified digital learning platform, appealing cartoon characters, music and puppets. Conecturma is currently in use in several school districts in Brazil.

Read more at CB Insights: Aonde Educacional

Their Mission:       Promote early literacy

Founder(s):           Aonde Educacional

Location:               Brazil

Learn More:           Conecturma facebook twitter / Archived: January 21, 2020

Mentive is a platform for live online classes with real people and top quality materials to master the skills you need. Mentive believes that knowledge turns dreams into reality, and education brings about this knowledge. Mentive is determined to find a way to enhance all the great online courses out there with the benefits of face-to-face learning.

Their Mission:       Create a global educational community where students and mentors meet to turn any online course into an interactive learning experience

Founder(s):           Jonathan Heyne and has a team of mentors

Location:               Berkeley, California, United States

Learn More:           Mentive / Archived: January 21, 2020

Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all

My RoundUp App lets you put your spare change from everyday purchases to good use by contributing to causes that are important to you. Connect your debit/credit card and your purchases will be rounded up to the nearest dollar and given to your cause in micro donations. My RoundUp App also has options for private label use and customization.

My RoundUp App was created by a in the United States.

Their Mission:       Helping people donate spare change to causes that matter to them

Founder(s):           Aaron Lowe and team

Location:              

Learn More:           My RoundUp App / Archived: January 22, 2020

zeusjuice is a free application that displays publicly-accessible power outlets. Through the app, people can find and share the locations of power outlets with one another. The app also features an SMS tool that lets them look up nearby power outlets with the app is not available.

Their Mission:       Make finding and sharing free-to-use power outlets fast and easy

Founder(s):           Ehb Teng

Location:               San Francisco, California, United States

Learn More:           zeusjuice video / Archived: January 16, 2020

Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

BlueLight is an app designed to optimize access to emergency services by routing calls more effectively using sensors in smartphones. The app seeks to minimize wait times caused by call transfers to authorities such as state highway patrol to local providers, which can impact wait times during life threatening emergencies.

Their Mission:       Help save lives by minimizing wait times to emergency services.

Founder(s):           Lauren Wilbanks

Location:               United States

Learn More:           Labre / Archived: January 22, 2020

Events Hub helps users find out about events near them and identifies if the event space is accessible. The platform is free for non-profits and public entities, such as libraries.

Their Mission:       Democratize event promotion and advertisement

Founder(s):           Hélcio Ricardo and Raísa Rodrigues

Location:               Brazil

Learn More:           In Prototype / Archived: January 22, 2020

Everybody Helping

Their Mission:       Connects individuals/groups with local organizations and causes that are important to them, facilitates monthly donations, and builds awareness

Founder(s):           Ehco Inc.

Location:               United States

Learn More:           Everybody Helping / Archived: January 23, 2020

Footprint is a web app that prompts you to take a quiz about your lifestyle and shows how your carbon footprint compares to others.

Their Mission:       Spread carbon footprint awareness

Founder(s):           Hannah Lim and Jessica Brush

Location:               California, United States

Learn More:           Footprint twitter / Archived: January 21, 2020

Labre is an app that helps community members crowdsource and share information about resources available in their immediate area, such as mobile charging stations, Wi-Fi, street art, food, shelter, and safe public places.

Their Mission:       Helping the homeless and low-income community locate resources

Founder(s):           Ehb Teng

Location:               San Francisco, California, United States

Learn More:           Labre / Archived: January 16, 2020

MEDAPulse is an NPO in San Francisco’s Mission District. It helps financial counselors better engage with their clients by moving them from their standard paper action plans to a secure web-based texting platform. The app uses group text messaging for the coach and the clients, with scheduled reminders. MEDAPulse is open-source and they invite any non-profit being able to roll their own version of the app. The app was built in Rails and AngularJS and designed for the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) to enhance their financial capability coaches' ability to interact with and track the progress of their clients' action plans. The MEDAPulse project was started at San Francisco’s first financial empowerment hackathon, SF Smart Money Hackathon, then went on to win the national Hackathon in August 2014.

Their Mission:       Help people with their financial goals

Founder(s):          

Location:               San Francisco, California, United States

Date Started:         August 2014

Learn More:           Github / Archived: January 23, 2020

Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Producing Right App helps producers collect information directly from the field quickly and efficiently , online or offline. It works for any rural property, regardless of size and type of production. Producers will be able to gradually and continuously improve their production practices and as a result, will have the opportunity to raise the compliance level of the farm to national and international sustainability standards. Performance reports are created and made available in a fast and transparent manner, allowing instant sharing with the various links of the supply chain, and creating new business opportunities. For further assistance, a team of environmental technicians are prepared to give the necessary support through email or phone.

Their Mission:       Assist rural producers in managing the social and environmental aspects of their properties

Founder(s):           Aliança da Terra

Location:               Goiânia, Brazil

Learn More:           "Producing Right App" / Archived: January 24, 2020

Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources

Goal 15: Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss

Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies

B.O. Coletivo is a free interactive map where users can submit their location and share information about criminal activities that take place in Brazilian cities. The application allows the user to register different types of issues related to public security (thefts, robberies, kidnappings and other), giving location, date, time and description of the incident. Thus it is possible to know which areas of a particular city are safer or more violent.

Their Mission:       Increase awareness about public safety

Founder(s):           B.O. Coletivo (an urban activist group focused on public safety)

Location:               Porto Alegré, Brasil

Learn More:           "the app and download it" / Archived: January 24, 2020

Meu Filho Autista or "My Autistic Son" is an application for families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder developed to help these relations be the person in control of their child's treatment. It offers tools, tips and resources and community as well as pre-developed modules. It is common for children with autism to perform various therapies: It's common for people with autism to receive various therapies including Speech Therapy, Occupational Psychology, and Educational Psychology among many others. All these therapies may generate anxiety if parents do not have tools to evaluate what is being effective and which is thus not ensuring the coordination of the treatment of his son. The continuous and careful evaluation by this application aims to provide parents and caretakers the opportunity to coordinate the treatment of their child and through feedback, seek the best intervention strategy.

Their Mission:       Provide families of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders more control of their child's treatment

Founder(s):           ForLifeApp

Location:               São Pedro da Aldeia, Brazil

Learn More:           download the app / Archived: January 24, 2020

SIC.SP is an app where users can access public info and receive notifications about the progress of their requests. Developed by Prodesp, the Data Processing Company of the State of Sao Paolo, this app brings government closer to the hands of the people. This app is supports the 2011 Access to Free Information Act and is directly a result of the formation of the Citizens Information Service (SIC) that allows for the request of documents and data related to the entities of the Paulista Public Administration.

Their Mission:       Allow citizens in the State of Sao Paolo, Brazil to access to the data and public information, produced or guarded by departments within the Paulista state administration

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Learn More:           the service or download the app / Archived: January 24, 2020

Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development