🤲

Smart-city projects run by civil society

32 of 1247 published projects — 2.6% — operated by an NGO, foundation, cooperative or citizens' organisation.

Run by an NGO, foundation, cooperative or citizens' organisation.

The smallest group, and the one that most often survives its funders. Community mapping projects have left datasets standing years after the grant closed, because an open dataset needs nobody to keep operating it. The same property cuts the other way: what nobody has to run, nobody is responsible for acting on. Read these alongside the entries that had donor money and hardware, which stopped when the money did.

Membership here is decided by the data, not by an editor: every published entry whose recorded operator is of this kind appears below. An entry can name more than one kind of operator, so it can appear on more than one of these pages.

✔ Every published entry is checked against the public sources it cites before publication.

All 32 entries

Show 17 more projectsShow fewer
🇹🇿 Dar es Salaam Ramani Huria Community Flood Mapping 2015–2020 · Succeeded → 🇩🇪 Dortmund Allianz Smart City Dortmund since 2016 · Ongoing → 🇨🇺 Havana Old Havana OpenStreetMap Mapping Sprint 2016 · Succeeded → 🇳🇱 Helmond Brainport Smart District since 2022 · Scaled back → 🇺🇸 Houston Houston BCycle Bike-Share (2012–2024) 2012–2024 · Failed → 🇸🇴 Kismayo Kismayo Solar Mini-Grid for Refugee Returnees since 2018 · Ongoing → 🇺🇸 Los Angeles Mobility Data Specification (MDS) since 2018 · Succeeded → 🇺🇾 Montevideo Por mi Barrio Citizen Reporting Platform 2014–2022 · Scaled back → 🇨🇦 Montreal BIXI Montréal: city-owned bikes, non-profit operator, operator-held data since 2009 · Ongoing → 🇰🇪 Nairobi Map Kibera — Residents Surveying an Informal Settlement into OpenStreetMap since 2009 · Ongoing → 🇰🇪 Nairobi Water ATMs: Prepaid Dispensers in Nairobi's Informal Settlements since 2015 · Scaled back → 🇩🇪 Stuttgart luftdaten.info / Sensor.Community citizen air sensors since 2015 · Ongoing → 🇮🇳 Surat Ukai and Tapi Flood Early Warning System Ongoing → 🇪🇪 Tartu SmartEnCity: the 'Smartovka' Retrofit of Soviet-Era Blocks 2016–2022 · Scaled back → 🇬🇪 Tbilisi Your Idea for the City Mayor: Tbilisi's Online Petition Portal since 2018 · Ongoing → 🇯🇵 Tokyo Virtual Shibuya since 2020 · Ongoing → 🇨🇭 Winterthur Bürgernetz Luftqualität since 2026 · Ongoing →

The rest of the record

Each of these is the same kind of page — a slice of the atlas whose membership is decided by a field rather than by an editor.

✉️ One source-checked project a week. No pitches, no vendors.

Inside: the Landmark of the Week, one Insight, the newly documented cities. One-click unsubscribe. About the newsletter · RSS