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Apps4Cities

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What we do

Apps4Cities is a joint project of  TechSoup Europe and our partner Civil Network OPORA - a known Ukrainian watchdog organization with branches in main cities across the country supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

The process, which combines data research and sourcing with an app challenge, was inaugurated during Personal Democracy Forum Ukraine, an international gathering of transparency and accountability activists. A series of educational and community building meetups followed the event, leading to sourcing ideas and developing projects in challenge format. In order to facilitate access to open public data, an open source platform was set up and 166 public data sets gathered there; many of which were published for the first time thanks to FOIA requests sent by OPORA.

The last part of the whole project was Apps4Cities Challenge - a competition for the best city apps built upon publicly available open data. 

The format of the competition gave everyone an opportunity to develop services which would be useful to city inhabitants.

Our social impact

The format of the competition gave everyone an opportunity to develop services which would be useful to city inhabitants and encouraged cross-sectoral cooperation between team members and a variety of different community stakeholders. All teams developed their products based on publicly available data.

Meet the winner apps which make the life easier for the city dwellers:

  • “Directly” – a mobile application that will map the nearest toilets and pave the shortest way to them;
  • “Open School” – service for monitoring public schools in Ukraine in regards to number of students per class, educational level, achievements of students and teachers, etc.;
  • “AllMuseums” – an app that aims at collecting relevant information about all museums in the country, in particular – the days of free visits for different categories of citizens;
  • “Electronic system for monitoring utilities usage” – an online tool that will help you inform and analyze usage of utilities by public institutions in selected cities.

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Kasia Zwolak-Szwechowicz
Content and Communication Specialist

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