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Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.
A marketing page collection of Google's "tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely"
A standalone product for users to query the veracity of text- and image-based claims
Google Public Sector
Mountain View, CA, USAGoogle Cloud's public sector division
"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins
Across Maps, Search, Nest, Flights, and Shopping
Google Trends
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore what the world is searching
Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products
BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.
Explore the far reaches of the world, right in your browser.
Google.org
United States of America (the)We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.
A dedicated dashboard to understand coronavirus searches
The Civic Information API allows you to build applications that allow citizens and voters to know about their political representation and voting locations.
Google Bulletin
Mountain View, CA, USACreate right from your phone with Google
Google Analytics
Mountain View, CA, USAIt gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.
Google Crisis Map
Mountain View, CA, USAA collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.
Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.
The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.
Google Map Maker officially closed on March 31, 2017, and many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps.Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of f
Google AI for Social Good
Mountain View, CA, USAAt Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.
Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.
The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.
Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.
Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.
Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure
ASEANcats Google Group
The Hague, NetherlandsThis e-group is created as a part of social movement building initiaves with the aim to share knowledge and discuss the latest development and issues related to the regional community integration of ASEAN. All are welcome.
112 job boards, Maintained by Ted Fickes & Edward Saperia
The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.
North America Google Policy Fellowship
Washington, DCOur fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.
Hurricane Mapping (Sea Island Software)
Richmond, VAWe are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.
AnswerThePublic
San Diego, CADiscover search trends across Google Search, Bing, and YouTube
The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Emerging Citizen Technology program, part of the Technology Transformation Service’s Innovation Portfolio, launched an open-sourced pilot to guide dozens of federal programs to make public service information available to consumer Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) for the home and office, such as Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, Google Assistant, and Facebook Messenger.
Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.
APAC Cybersecurity Fund
San FranciscoGoogle.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, is providing $15M to The Asia Foundation to launch the APAC Cybersecurity Fund in partnership with CyberPeace Institute and Global Cyber Alliance to bolster cyber capabilities of 300,000 underserved micro and small businesses, nonprofits, and social enterprises.
Impact Tracker
OhioThe IA Impact Tracker is a digital platform to help news organizations, funders, and other stakeholders understand the impact of journalism by defining, measuring, and tracking real world change.
Villantott
Hungary (Magyarország)Google Chrome Add-on for selecting the most interesting articles of the origo.hu propaganda news website.
The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.
Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy
Bloom Housing
San FranciscoA housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.
The Systemic Racism Pin
Quebec City, QC, CanadaWe highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.
Machine Learning Trainings for Journalists
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEFree online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.
JournalismAI
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEJournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.
Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images
Tarbell makes it simple to put your work on the web, whether you’re a team of one or a dozen. With Tarbell, you can collaboratively build beautiful websites and publish them with ease. Tarbell makes use of familiar, flexible tools to take the magic (and frustration) out of publishing to the web. Google spreadsheets handle content management, so changes to your stories are easy to make without touching a line of code. Step-by-step prompts help you set up and configure your project, so that publishing it is a breeze.
Pinpoint
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.
In partnership with Google and Propel, GiveDirectly is automating cash aid to Propel users living in areas deemed damaged by satellite imagery
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