Civic Tech Field Guide
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Technologies that train models to autonomously support or function independently of direct human effort.
Suggested resources:
- Civic AI Prompt Library
- AI features in digital participation platforms, by Matt Stempeck
- The threat and promise of generative AI in the regulatory process.
- AI and the humanitarian sector: hype or hope? 🔊
- A round-up of internal AI policies
- CivicSpace.tech guide to Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, including its relevance to civic space, opportunities, risks, and case studies
- Handshake's Generative AI Resource Hub, a curated list of research, instructions, and projects from Handshake on generative AI.
- Watch: Assessing Responsible AI Use Cases in Local Government, by Open North
- Foundation models in the public sector, by the Ada Lovelace Institute
- Artificial Intelligence: Its potential and ethics in the practice of public participation. A Research Paper by the International Association for Public Participation Canada.
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Brandwatch Consumer Research
48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USAGet consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.
VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers
A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.
Reveal hidden gender bias
Chalmers
TorontoChalmers can help you find things like: free meals, overnight shelter, clothing banks, emergency contacts and can point you to offline and online mental health services.
Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.
ZenCity
Tel Aviv, IsraelHear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level
Fluicity (Efalia Engage)
4 Rue du Caire, 75002 Paris, FranceFluicity is a community engagement software for public and private entities
WorkIt Walmart employee app
New York CityAI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers
DoNotPay bot
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAThe World's First Robot Lawyer
Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.
Rosie
Brazil (Brasil)An artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.
Automating NYC
New York CityWe want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UKMeasuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
One Concern
Menlo Park, California, United StatesOur platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.
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.
US Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAContinued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Libre AI
Dublin, IrelandLibre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."
Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?
The Partnership on AI was established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society.
Polis
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaPolis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.
Open Field
Los Angeles, CAOpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.
Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform
Managing uncertainty in government modelling
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets
DATAJUSTICE project
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UKThis project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication
Legal Robot
548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, USALegal tech startup using Artificial Intelligence to make Legal Documents less painful & improve Access to Justice.
Microsoft AI for Earth
Redmond, WASupporting sustainability decision-making with the power of the cloud
Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.
Conversation AI
Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAConversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.
US Artificial Intelligence for Citizen Services
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAArtificial Intelligence for Citizen Services unites public service managers and innovative U.S. businesses in evaluating and building smart automatio
Botcheck.me
Berkeley, California, USAWe use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.
Digital Asia Hub
Hong KongAN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG
Perspective
Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAPerspective is an API that uses machine learning to spot abuse and harassment online.
Cofacts
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.
With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.
Centre for Collective Intelligence Design
58 Victoria EmbankmentThe Centre for Collective Intelligence Design will explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to make the most of our collective knowledge and develop innovative and effective solutions to social challenges.
Plural Policy (formerly Civic Eagle)
MinnesotaShape the future of public policy with Plural’s intuitive, AI-powered legislative tracking and stakeholder collaboration tools. Effectively influence US federal and state legislation and say goodbye to clunky legacy software and manual spreadsheets.
InVID Verification Plugin
Europe"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere
Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.
Facebook Suicide Prevention
1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USAFacebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders.
DIUx xView Detection Challenge
Pentagon Building, Washington, DC, USAPentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery
Assembl
Paris, FranceMassive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.
UN Global Pulse Lab Kampala radio analysis with machine learning
Kampala, UgandaWe analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.
Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKA major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.
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