CiviClick

Let’s say you’re walking through the streets of Cambridge and you trip over a pothole, or you notice a small child almost get hit at an intersection, or you walk under a broken streetlight. These are things which make your city less safe, less habitable. Who do you tell?  Our project spun out of the understanding that we live in an age of limitless information, but limited reach to our municipal leaders. And our municipal leaders live equally in an age where there is unlimited information about what us, their constituents think about their leadership and local issues, as well as limitless information on the open source about where theres crime, or construction needs, where themes people get ticketed, and every other small and large issue that ranges from making daily life a nuisance to real natural disaster and life and death prevention.

As we approached this, we asked, what is a smart city? And to us, a smart city means a city is a data driven city. It’s a city where municipal leaders have access to maximal information and citizens have access to maximal information too. Every person knows what issues are occurring in their town, where they are occurring, and who to contact to fix them — and that action is taken. Politicians know who and what issues are being face, what matters to their constituents sand they run on those issues.

That was our inspiration for CiviClick - 260 access and insights from data. Data about everything that’s available publicly, for everyone, to incite real change. Smarter cities, and a better future, all through a single prince of software.

Fullsuite of tools to democratize data for everyday Americans

Hyper-spatial maps for understanding city data at scale
Drone fleet with trained computer vision for efficient city maintenance
Real-time analysis of constituent sentiment
Direct pipeline between concerned citizens and their relevant local politicians

What's next for CiviClick

Expansion across cities (we began with Cambridge, MA for this weekend, but a lack of transparency into city data is a universal problem across the United States.
Further training of CV models to detect complex issues.
Potential collaborations with local politicians' offices (as we've already received interest in our direct citizen->politician pipeline platform.