What is Civic Tech?
Civic Tech is a global social movement. Local governments across Europe, America, Africa and India encourage its development to address issues in their communities. So what is Civic Tech?
We present you some examples of Civic Tech innovations that are contributing to a positive social impact in their communities. We are proud to have all these founders joining us on Wednesday, April 8 for “Civic Tech: Tech for Social Impact” event.
Paper Plain
Founded by Julia Suh, Paper Plain helps people find out what’s happening in their neighbourhood or building. Paper Plain is being used by property developers, property managers, stratas and governments to build communities, develop social capital and encourage engagement among residents. Paper Plain were winners of Stockland’s Prop Tech Accelerator and received pre-seed investment funding from Blue Chilli.
My Community Directory
My Community Directory is a not-for-profit online platform connecting individuals to health information and services founded by Brentyn Parkin. The platform developed by Community Information Support Services is populated through open data and engagement with local providers and is being sold to governments so that they can provide a directory of services in their community. Founder Brentyn Parkin was one of the 2019 Telstra Business Award finalists.
Communiteer
Victor Lee founded Communiteer to bring change-makers, charities and corporates together to do more social good. It connects Not-For-Profit organisations with skilled volunteers so that they can work together to deliver the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
StartSomeGood
StartSomeGood is a cause-driven crowdfunding platform co-founded by one of CCI’s Directors Tom Dawkins. They have helped over 1000 projects raise the funds they need to start good. It’s a crowdfunding platform with a difference. The StartSomeGood team’s mission isn’t to help as many projects as possible to reach their goal, instead, they support social purpose organisations to craft and promote their campaigns.
Environment.vote
Dane Murray developed Environment.vote to help people make decisions about who to vote for in their electorate based on a set of environmental criteria.
Converlens
Founded by Tom Workman, Converlens is being used by governments to generate insights from data collected from stakeholders during engagement. It uses machine learning to analyse qualitative text and quantitative data so they can be reported. Converlens was developed after its founders won$1 million through the Australia Government’s Digitally Enabled Community Engagement Challenge.
Also as a part of examples of Civic Tech in Australia, Mel Flanagan from Nook Studios will be joining us to share the Process Map tool for government. Leila Alem, an expert in businesses transformation for the digital future, will share her experience on implementation of Augmented Reality for remote Health services.
Connect with us online and meet this creative lineup on Wednesday 8th of April from 5.30pm-7pm (AEDT). Get your ticket here.