GenBridge
Strengthening community capacity through technology.
GenBridge advances community capacity by making technology more accessible, relevant, and responsive to community needs. We build practical technology solutions, expand digital knowledge and skills, and promote meaningful community participation in the design and implementation of technology.
What we do
GenBridge strengthens community capacity through technology. We develop technology solutions that address community needs, provide training in existing and emerging technologies, and ensure communities have a meaningful voice in the design and implementation of the technologies that affect their lives.
We believe communities should not simply use technology; they should have the knowledge, tools, and power to shape it.
Three pillars
Build
Develop technology solutions that respond to real community needs.
Educate
Equip communities with the knowledge and skills to use existing and emerging technologies.
Empower
Give communities a meaningful role in shaping the technologies that affect them.
What we believe
Communities should shape technology, not only use it
The people a technology affects should have the knowledge, the tools and a real say in how it is designed and put to use.
Capacity should stay in the community
Our work succeeds when a community can do more on its own afterward, with documentation and a trained person inside the organization.
A GenBridge project
Erta: awareness for neighborhoods, without a list of residents
Erta is a GenBridge project under the Build pillar. It gives neighborhood volunteers and community networks the situational awareness agencies have, without handing agencies a list of residents. Volunteers check on neighbors with a tap, networks see where help is needed first, and agencies see counts, never names.
Erta is being developed for testing in New York and New Orleans, with a Spanish-language version adapted for Bogotá. It is shown with sample data.
Want to work together?
Tell us what your community or organization needs, or how you could help.
programs@genbridgealliance.org