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Google Play "Verified" badge for VPN apps
Mountain View, CAThis new badge is designed to highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety, help users make more informed choices about the VPN apps they use, and build confidence in the apps they ultimately download.
For MASA AL2, the lab will test the public version of the app (available in the Play Store) and provide assessment feedback directly to developers, including remediation steps for any flagged issues.
ChatGPT Gov is designed to streamline government agencies’ access to OpenAI’s frontier models.
DIVERSIFAIR
EuropeA 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.
Factstream AI
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱FactStream AI utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to simplify access to essential legal information for newcomers and new community members across Europe.
Our vision is to build a world where AI technologies are secure, decentralized, and transparent, enabling users to harness the full potential of AI while maintaining complete control and privacy over their data.
The Spinoza project initially aims to create a tool for journalists based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance media coverage of climate change and ecological transition, all while relying on reliable sources.
Contrer la désinformation avec l’IA - Studio Hirondelle RDC
Democratic Republic of the Congo (République Démocratique du Congo) 🇨🇩An AI project uses natural language processing to identify and neutralize hate speech on community radios in eastern DRC, enhancing social cohesion and stability in conflict-affected areas by providing reliable information through adapted radio content.
Coders Beyond Borders
Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱Coders Beyond Borders: Empowering newcomers with essential tech skills for seamless integration and success in Europe’s tech landscape.
ARIJ AI Playbook
Amman, JordanARIJ has developed its AI strategy to serve as a reference and comprehensive map for small and medium-sized Arab press organizations to employ modern technologies and tools to improve journalistic production
Africa Tech Workers Rising
NairobiAfrica Tech Workers Rising, Kenya is a project to organize and empower front line content moderators and data enrichment workers in the AI data supply chain to improve conditions of pay, workload, health and safety, whistleblower protections, voice and respect.
What To Fix
France 🇫🇷We build innovative tools, methodologies, datasets and partnerships to further the diagnosis of systemic risks to internet integrity.
Tracking Local Law 144 bias audits
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)ACLU's crowd-sourced public tracker of bias audits of automated employment decision tools (AEDTs) released by employers related to NYC's Local Law 144.
Myanmar Internet Project
Myanmar (Myăma) 🇲🇲The Myanmar Internet Project was established in 2022 by a collective of researchers, practitioners and advocates with years of experience tracking developments in the Myanmar digital space.
Observatorio Regional: Legislación en Libertad de Expresión en América Latina
Global Majority House
Brussels"Given the global significance of the DSA, a coalition of civil society and research organizations is setting up a “Global Majority House” in Brussels to ensure the implementation of the landmark legislation, as well as other digital regulations, is equitable and inclusive." - Tech Policy Press
Inescapable AI
Los AngelesEmploying a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States.
Observatoire des algorithmes publics
France 🇫🇷Odap is the French citizen observatory for public sector algorithms. It creates and gathers information on algorithms and AI systems used by government agencies in France, to make them more transparent.
Daybreak
LondonDaybreak is a cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change. It presents a hopeful vision of the near future, where you get to build the mind-blowing technologies and resilient societies we need to save the planet.
Scout (GOV.UK)
10 Downing StreetAn AI-powered tool that improves government major project delivery by automatically analysing thousands of documents to help detect problems earlier, enabling timely interventions that keep critical projects on track.
i.AI and NHS England Collaboration Charter
10 Downing StreetThe Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (i.AI), an innovative team of technical experts at the heart of government, and NHS England (NHSE) have signed a first-of-a-kind Collaboration Charter to support the use of AI in the NHS.
Accelerate innovation, investment and productivity through world-class science, ensure that new and existing technologies are safely developed and deployed across the UK and drive forward a modern digital government for the benefit of its citizens.
Humphrey
10 Downing StreetA package of tools to speed up the work of civil servants and make them deliver ministerial plans more quickly.
Connect (GOV.UK)
10 Downing Streeti.AI are using AI to match capacity to demand in the Grid connections queue
Parlex and Lex
10 Downing StreetEquipping policy makers and researchers with AI-driven tools to explore legislation, analyse parliamentary developments, and empowering them in the policy making process.
rAPId
10 Downing StreetAn end-to-end solution to sharing data across government
OSP
Armenia (Hayastán) 🇦🇲A fact-checking website designed to provide critical support to investigative journalists, fact-checkers, and data journalism experts by simplifying access to information from Armenian open sources.
ThemeFinder
10 Downing StreetThemeFinder is a topic modelling Python package designed for analysing one-to-many question-answer data (i.e. survey responses, public consultations, etc.).
Design Hops
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧A free seven-week online training programme teaching innovative techniques from the digital world to enhance work and problem-solving abilities.
Minute (GOV.UK)
10 Downing StreetMinute is a secure AI transcription service that produces customisable summaries in the formats that public servants need.
Digital Trustees
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧We're aiming to get digital on the agenda of every charity board in the UK.
Consult (GOV.UK)
10 Downing StreetConsult is a machine learning and LLM-powered tool to automate the processing of public consultations.
Digital Leads Network
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧We’re a growing community of not-for-profit digital leads committed to making the most of digital technology for positive social impact, by sharing best practice and peer-to-peer learning.
Agencies for Good
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧We’re a community of tech for good agencies, consultancies and freelancers. We hang out on a Slack Workspace and support each other to do socially impactful work.
The Curve
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧The Curve is a series of free, 90-minute workshops for third sector organisations.
GOV.UK Wallet
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧The UK government is launching a GOV.UK Wallet and App to simplify access to services and documents like digital driver’s licences
科技、民主與社會研究中心 - Center for Research on Technology, Democracy and Society (DSET)
Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼As a national think tank, we are committed to proposing policy recommendations on emerging technologies based on the public needs of democracy and society and to offering the international community a unique Taiwanese perspective.
Congestion Pricing Tracker
Brown UniversityCurious whether Congestion Pricing is having an impact on commutes in NYC? Take a look to compare traffic data before and after Congestion Pricing
Sunstorm Foundation
ParisWe are seeding a future in which truth is a shared asset, and trust between citizens in Europe is fostered by transparency in the digital sphere.
Tavanmand
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧Tavanmand is a social media short video series in Persian (Farsi) aimed at empowering communities by showcasing practical, low-tech solutions and fostering positive cultural and behavioural changes through accessible, engaging content.
A country’s EPI reflects the e-participation mechanisms that are deployed by the government as compared to all other countries.
Free Our Feeds
Washington, DCSave Social Media From Billionaire Capture.
AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation (Habermas Machine)
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CAGoogle DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-written summaries, while still representing minority views in the final version.
This article proposes, and presents results from, an online technology platform and a methodology, which can help depolarize sectors of society, with the specific application to the current divisive post-war landscape within Colombia.
The E-Government Development Index presents the state of E-Government Development of the United Nations Member States.
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