civictech OrcaSound Uses Machine Learning to Advocate for Endangered Orcas “The bird people are ahead of us,” was not what I expected to hear coming from a group at Hack to Give Thanks tasked with talking about killer whales. But, according to Scott Veirs of OrcaSound, a web-app that allows users to listen for whales and then conserve them, this
civictech ClimateTree Fosters Learning to Combat Climate Change The project is complicated, but the problem it seeks to solve is simple: how can we optimize climate activism using the wealth of data available? ClimateTree, inspired by the global Climate Strike student movement, is a platform for sharing climate solutions between areas that face similar challenges. Users can compare
civictech RHours Seeks to Create Software-Defined Ownership Economy For project leader Glen, RHours represents the intersection of two areas of interest; a fascination for software development that began in childhood, and a passion for social equity and wealth distribution that burgeoned as an adult. His ambitious project seeks to address the inherent inequality in business ownership, where employees
