CITIZENTECH

Citizentech anchors community co-development in data, ethics, and resilience for product and process developments translatable and adaptable to scale.

What makes Citizentech tech?

What makes Citizentech citizen?

Citizentech develops community-grounded dignity-first solutions. We identify urgent community needs, especially for resilience and adaptation. Then we co-develop right size and right fit solutions:

• license tech to solve urgent and researched issues
• explore adoption of tech for new applications 
• refine processes and systems
  
• work deeply with communities to identify issues and right size/right fit solutions.

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Product Line A for Adaptation

Our mobile app interface in process

Problems: 

• Farmers in the US and globally maintain a highest suicide rate. The anxiety of farming never dies down. In the best of circumstances and the best of worlds, weather can ruin the work of any level or size of farmer.

• Farmers assume risk that we ask of nearly no one in any other industry, putting themselves, their families, property, prosperity, money on the line, and then waiting to get paid. They assume all the risk of the production, the financing, the infrastructure, the feed, the inputs, and the equipment. And then the markets or weather can turn all of that hard work upside down. 

Our Solution: licensing a digital companion + hard tech integration
This research-based digital companion centers decision-making designed for farmers on the frontlines of escalating weather volatility and transforms reactive behaviors into proactive adaptation strategy and connection.
Status: pilot, expansion, refinement,  licensing, and commercialization​

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Product Line A for Adaptation

Problems:

• Food waste is a major source of greenhouse gas and ends up in landfills.
• Food waste often has low protein.
• Black Soldier Flies convert food waste into high protein clean larvae.
• Systems and processes need to be refined to put this technology at right fit and right size for every farm and also as by-product use.
• This hard tech needs sensor integration controllable and analyzable through mobile application and AI analysis.

Our Solutions:

• Citizentech seeks to partner with a North Carolina manufacturer for sensor adaptation and data calibration of a universal design BSF compost system.
• Citizentech plans to collaborate on researching and developing hardware-software integration for this Black Soldier Fly (BSF) system.
• Citizentech plans to partner to pilot integration of BSF system sensor data into its mobile application for maximizing process and profit.

Status: research, funding

Citizentech's in-house developed community-based innovation lab (CBIL) works with citizens from urban to rural to identify urgent needs and co-collaborate for defined and actionable tech, material, and process solutions.
​Citizentech centers community-based innovation as the core of community problem-solving.​

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Product Line C for Citizen

Destruction from Hurricane Helene

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Hard Tech
Sciences of Dignity
Problem: As the climate is drastically shifted, water, soil, air, and weather analysis must become “YouTube”ified--accessible and on demand for farmers, villages, towns, municipalities, cities, and individuals as they contend with weather events, emergencies, increasing resilience, and being left on their own to respond to and prepare for climate crises.
Our Solution:
Licensing and manufacturing a hardtech one-stop multi-tool device that centers expertise access through hardware democratization.

• ​Working with university-based research that is Researching and adapting licensable hard tech into increasingly smaller and lower-cost accessible sensors and analytical tools for water, soil, air, and weather This research converts elite or inaccessible scientific analysis tech into everyday resilience in-the-hand infrastructure.
• Citizentech will license and manufacture a multi-tool device to empower farmers, emergency managers, villages, towns, municipalities, and developing communities to track and respond immediately through hard tech and mobile connection to risks like biological water and soil contamination, drought, air quality, and extreme weather.

Status: identification, partnering, off-the-shelf adaptation and mobile tech integration, funding

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Community-based Innovation Labs (CBILs)

Citizentech’s community-based innovation mobile labs and model reclaim the promise of maker culture but this time through hyperlocal community-driven adaptations and invention. Through structured participation, communities and Citizentech:

• co-identify urgent needs
• co-invent or adapt tools, materials, and processes

Then, 

• Citizentech partners for fabrication for the community
• Citizentech works with the community for analysis and potential commercialization.
• Citizentech partners with researchers, labs, industry and capital to get these hard tech tools to the sites that co-developed as pilots and to market, or when appropriate and affordable, as open source DIY plans. 

Rather than relying on slow-moving, centralized innovation, Citizentech CBILs mobilize grassroots' and grasstops' creativity to solve immediate and urgent material problems, while creating equitable pathways to market, reinvestment, and resilience.
Status: Working in communities in Appalachia and the US South. Citizentech can work with your community remotely or live worldwide!

By working with communities, Citizentech creates a pipeline of adaptation hard tech for faster, lighter-on-its-feet, and broader dissemination. 

CitizenTech collaboration: Practiced Agrihoods

Practiced Agrihoods (www.practicedagrihoods.com)  is a process and product model for integrated living that places adaptation and sustainable agriculture at the center of residential and agricultural design. Rather than idealized high-priced "eco" villages—these are real, replicable, and right-sized approaches that combine food production, water and energy resilience, and equitable land use for diverse populations.
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Modeling land management and community food systems, Practiced Agrihoods demonstrates how mixed-use rural or peri-urban developments can serve as nodes of sustainability and buffers against displacement, food insecurity, and economic volatility.

Whereas other agrihoods focus on real estate development, Practiced Agrihoods focuses on community and farmer development, farmer connection, and farmer and land resilience .
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Practiced Agrihoods also serve as pilot communities for Citizentech tech and processes.
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Status: First Practiced Agrihood in development in Union Grove, North Carolina, USA with up to six sustainable agriculture residential farm plots focused on Veterans to Agriculture.

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