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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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Contents
- 1 Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- 2 Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
- 3 Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
- 4 Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
- 5 Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
- 6 Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all
- 7 Goal 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
- 8 Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
- 9 Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
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
Lunch Box is a consumer food and grocery management app.
Their Mission: Help reduce food waste in the home and at the retailer level
Founder(s):
Location: United States
Learn More: Lunch Box / 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
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
Founder(s):
Location:
Learn More: Doctor D / Archived: January 08, 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
SPX Denge 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
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
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
Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
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
