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Provides a comprehensive overview of all enforcement authorities and the cases they have taken against online platforms under the Digital Services Act
A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government
Emerging Tech Primers
AspenOur team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.
Renovate the Public Hearing
Burnaby, CanadaRenovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.
Mitigating Wildfire
Burnaby, CanadaThe Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.
Newsweek has added a "Is this article trustworthy?" poll below its articles
The Dialogue on Technology Project (DoT)
Burnaby, CanadaDoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.
Providing an open‑source business intelligence and embedded analytics platform for creating dashboards, querying data, and embedding analytics.
Hey Neighbour Collective
Burnaby, CanadaHey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.
BuzzFeed Unveils Plan to Take Back the Internet We Love; Company Aims to Disrupt Social Media With a New AI-Driven Platform Built for Creativity and Joy, Not Manipulation or Addiction
Datack agency
ParisDatack is an activation agency that supports organizations, leveraging digital, creativity and data to meet their objectives.
Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people
How can we ensure more inclusive and responsible AI so that diverse harms can be foreseen and mitigated, and its benefits equitably enjoyed around the world?
Framework for Conducting National Dialogues on Frontier Technologies
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)A key question is: who gets a say in the direction AI and other frontier technologies go?
Better Images of AI
LondonHave you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?
To Community
United States of America 🇺🇸To Community is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. It’s also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance.
How can we ensure that democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances? What are achievable positive visions for a world being transformed by technology? By Aviv Ovadya
In this paper, building on insights from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, we provide a "Democracy Levels" framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically.
Cet appel à projet vise à créer et à rendre accessible les communs numériques sur l’ensemble de la chaine de l’intelligence artificielle générative afin d’assurer le développement de produits ou services innovants.
Facebook Community Forums on AI
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CAWe partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.
Connected by Data
Epsom, UKWe campaign for communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data and AI
The Students' Assembly on Gen AI in Higher Education
The University of EdinburghIn the context of rising concerns regarding GenAI use, a two-day deliberative process was organized and hosted at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute. A total of 17 students from 6 disciplines, gathered and deliberated on the question “How can we reimagine teaching, learning, and research methods to align with the advancements in AI and ethics?”.
Clever Together
LondonWe help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.
Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
TrollWall.ai
Prešov, SlovakiaAI-powered community management solution with human-level accuracy
We believe in strengthening and protecting people’s voices via proven quality technology and operational expertise – including election monitoring, voting systems, and data-driven outreach.
Making TikTok, tick
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK
AI & Campaigning Handbook
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKCampaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.
AI and Campaigning: The Future of Influence
Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UKReport by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab
Small donor campaign to help protect Kyiv from aerial bombing
Demosquare
Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera) 🇨🇭Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.
KICTANet
NairobiKICTANet is a multi-stakeholder think tank in Kenya that serves as a catalyst for ICT sector reforms through policy advocacy, capacity building, research, and stakeholder engagement.
People, organizations, and communities across the country are joining together to ensure our civil servants have resources if they are targeted or attacked.
The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.
THE CIVICS supports both citizens and civic educators to deal with the challenges of our time, such as threats to democracy, causes and effects of climate change, growing polarisation, and divides. Our goal is to strengthen the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.
Our Mapping Civic Education in Europe programme is a dynamic initiative continuously evolving by adding new countries to the first-ever pan-European virtual map of civic educators.
AI goes to school
Portugal 🇵🇹Artificial Intelligence: support teachers and schools in using AI responsibly and effectively
The success of Koa Health and Eticas serves as a beacon for the broader industry, emphasizing the importance of ethical considerations when developing mental health solutions.
Eticas audited the algorithmic system that predicts homelessness risk in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.
Auditing YouTube. Social media’s treatment of migrants
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?
The report explores Uber, Cabify and Bolt’s compliance with competition, labor and consumer protection laws in Spain.
An In-Depth Audit of Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Impacting Individuals with Disabilities
Auditing TikTok. Social media’s treatment of migrants
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?
Since 2016, the Laura Robot has analyzed more than 8.6 million visits in 40 clinical and hospital centers in several Brazilian states.
In Spain, the level of risk to which a victim of gender violence is subjected is determined by an algorithm. The system to which it belongs is VioGén which, with more than 3 million risk evaluations, is the risk assessment system with the most registered cases in the world.
Agência para a Modernização Administrativa (AMA)
Rua de Santa Marta no. 55A Agência para a Modernização Administrativa, I.P. (AMA) é o instituto público responsável pela promoção e desenvolvimento da modernização administrativa em Portugal.
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