Apps for sustainability

Comment June 2012 Hacking Sustainability: Part 2, comment re design of travel apps Update December 2011 1st 4 stories in a series which give a more readable account of listings on this wiki Apps for sustainability, part 1 Apps for sustainability, USA part 1 Apps for sustainability, UK part 1 Apps for sustainability, UK local part 1 2010 Real #opendata – opening up local authority contact centres to the public, William Perrin, August 11th, 2010 Your comment - Contribute via our Forums or a comment type article, or on any article via its talk page - click on 'talk' link at top of page

Apps for sustainability

Tip: click on the category links to find more examples throughout this wiki: global, USA, UK, / Guidelines for listings

Social media:

• Apps for sustainability on WiserEarth
• Apps for sustainability on Project Dirt

App is short for Application software ^W.

Guidelines for listings

The listings here are intended to concentrate on the apps which make it easier for citizens and community groups to take action for sustainability. So they are by nature citizen or user-friendly. They can include apps which help citizens and groups express needs, aspirations and good ideas to improve Quality of life in their communities. Although the listings may be primarily about software, they may also include particularly innovative and similarly citizen (not-bureaucrat) focused projects or resources.

Reviews

Add yours below each item. Example here

Ideas for apps

If you have an idea for an app for sustainability which needs collaborative development you're welcome to share your idea within this wiki. Example here

Resources

• MIT App Inventor

Village cinema

ICow Apps4Africa Winner 2010

Kenya Resources

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Village cinema USA

The following video is about related stuff, it's primarily talking to and about government, it's long, the people talk fast, some of the language is a bit techie, but seems highly related to Apps for sustainability and the wider Big Society project to which it might contribute. Particularly like the "it takes a village of villages" comment which occurs about 8 or 9 mins in Philralph @sca21 10:58, September 17, 2010 (UTC)

Gov 2.0 Summit 2010 Bryan Sivak,

Related topics

Category:Resources review request

• Social media, Social networks rss feeds

International

• Ushahidi

UK

• Our Society, Big Society

USA

• OpenPlans

External links

International

• Issue Reporting Applications on Open 311 wiki
• Top apps to make you more green on listiki
• Opendata Day Projects, started/completed or worked on during the Dec 4th, 2010 Open Data Day

UK

• Ideas people have got for building apps out of government data suggested via data.gov.uk, Ideas : Environment
• Social App Store on Social by Social, wider project to which Apps for sustainability may contribute.

Europe

• From local participation to virtual discourse Echologic discussion

USA

• Watch: Fellows Demo Their Apps @ CfA Summit, November 3, 2011
• Civic Commons, helping government agencies work together.

• Civic Stack, shared body of software and protocols for civic entities, built on open standards.

• Code for America, founded to help the brightest minds of the Web 2.0 generation transform city governments.
• Apps for Democracy, Application Directory, Guide to Creating Your Own Apps for Democracy

References