Projects
Projects and partnerships driving a more connected, innovative Kansas City.
Solutions Lab Ventures
Solutions Lab Ventures is an innovation-based entrepreneur support program managed by KC Digital Drive.
Internet Access Support Program
Providing direct financial assistance to families affected by COVID-19, and helping to subsidize the cost of broadband access at home.
KC Goes Tech
New microgrant program helps expand the ability of community organizations to include digital training in their offerings, and to network more effectively with existing digital literacy providers.
National Smart Coalitions Partnership
A national cross-sector network to accelerate more
sustainable and resilient cities
Clear My Record Expungement Project
Clear My Record is an ongoing collaborative project to build tech tools that support criminal record expungement, and is a civic project from Code for KC.
Digital Equity for Community Health Workers
Community health workers (CHWs) are support personnel to the healthcare process of the people they serve. Currently, in the Kansas City region, their work especially includes linking the care environment to the social services environment. This has come about as more policy makers understand the power of the social determinants of health in patient outcomes.
Comeback KC Ventures
Accelerating Innovation to Jumpstart KC’s Comeback from COVID-19 – Comeback KC Ventures is funded through an 18-month SPRINT Challenge grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration and administered by KC Digital Drive and the UMKC Innovation Center.
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Developer Challenge
KC Digital Drive is hosting an Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Developer Challenge. The AR/VR Challenge will bring together entrepreneurs, hackers, makers, developers, and other creative minds with the goal of building AR applications that solve local problems.
Air Quality Sensors
KC Digital Drive, working with a group of community partners, is putting up an array of sensors across Kansas City that will be used to measure air quality microclimates and detect pollution sources. Through a partnership with US Ignite and funded by a National Science Foundation grant, KC Digital Drive received 50 air quality sensors that measure temperature, humidity, and particles (PM 2.5). As a citizen science project, residents in the targeted area will be able to participate by having a sensor on their property. A visualization map of the data received from the sensors will be available to the public.
Connected Roads and Vehicles: A Next Generation Mobility Workshop
This workshop is intended to identify project opportunities that connect leading edge academic research with the immediate problems facing local and state government, private industry, and entrepreneurs working in transportation and mobility infrastructure and solutions. It is the second in a series designed to meet future mobility challenges and opportunities, sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The inaugural workshop in Fall 2019 included a multi-disciplinary discussion of societal trends and needs.