FireForm is proud to be an open-source Digital Public Good, dedicated to advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By drastically reducing the administrative burden on first responders, we enable emergency services to operate more efficiently, safely, and transparently.
Target 16.6: Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels.
How FireForm contributes: By unifying and digitizing the reporting structure for firefighters and other emergency responders, FireForm builds stronger, more accountable local institutions. Emergency services can seamlessly share critical incident data across county lines, sheriff departments, and EMS, ensuring transparency and highly effective public service administration without the overhead of repetitive paperwork.
Target 11.b: By 2020, substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters...
How FireForm contributes: FireForm directly enhances a city's resilience to disasters by giving first responders hours of their time back. Instead of doing administrative work, firefighters can focus on training, disaster mitigation, and responding to emergencies, ultimately creating safer and more resilient communities.
Target 9.4: By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes...
How FireForm contributes: FireForm modernizes the outdated infrastructure of first responder reporting. By leveraging open-source AI locally, it serves as an innovative digital infrastructure that makes emergency management more resource-efficient and environmentally sound (eliminating physical paperwork and reducing digital redundancies).
In accordance with the Digital Public Goods Alliance requirements for Open Software, the ownership and accountability of the FireForm project and all its produced assets are clearly defined.
Accountable Entity: The intellectual property and copyright of the software code and content are owned by the original core creators: Juan Ćlvarez SĆ”nchez, Manuel Carriedo Garrido, Vincent Harkins, Marc VergĆ©s, and Jan Sans.
This ownership is publicly documented and verifiable across our project's assets:
In accordance with the Digital Public Goods Alliance requirements for Open Software and Open AI Systems, FireForm guarantees platform independence. We do not rely on mandatory proprietary dependencies or closed components that would restrict our MIT License.
Core Dependencies:
frontend/package.json)requirements.txt)Dependency Graph (SBOM): All components and their versions in our software supply chain are automatically tracked by our source repository. You can view our full dependency graph and SBOM directly on our GitHub repository. If any proprietary components are ever integrated, they will be strictly optional and replaceable with open alternatives without modifying the core solution.
Digital public goods must ensure that data and content can be extracted or imported in a non-proprietary format. FireForm embraces this requirement at the core of its architecture:
fireform.db file, which can be easily extracted, backed up, and read by hundreds of open-source tools.By standardizing on JSON and SQLite, FireForm guarantees that emergency departments retain full ownership and accessibility of their data at all times.
FireForm is designed from the ground up with a privacy-first, local-only architecture. Because emergency incident reports frequently contain sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII), we guarantee that no data ever leaves the user's device.
By eliminating cloud servers and third-party APIs, FireForm enables first responder organizations to easily comply with the world's most stringent data protection laws, including:
For full details on our consent management procedures, data minimization practices, and how the solution was designed to comply with HIPAA, CCPA, and GDPR, please read our official Privacy Policy.
FireForm is committed to anticipating and preventing harm by design, strictly adhering to the DPGA's framework:
FireForm strictly aligns with globally recognized standards and best practices curated by the DPGA to ensure high-quality, interoperable, and sustainable software:
Our mission is to build software that protects the people who protect us. FireForm was originally conceived and won 1st place at the Reboot the Earth hackathon, hosted by the UN and UC Santa Cruz, specifically targeting solutions for a better, more sustainable future.
We believe that modern technology like Local LLMs should be leveraged as public goods, accessible to any department regardless of budget, to help them better serve their communities.