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
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LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.
WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.
We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.
JournalismAI Discovery is an interactive self-guided course that will help you understand what AI technologies can do to improve your journalism.
Executive Order on Modernizing Regulatory Review
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAUS White House order including addressing AI generated public comments
Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org
Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.
Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.
JournalismAI
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEJournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.
JournalismAI Fellowship Programme
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEThe JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journalism via the use of AI technologies.
Machine Learning Trainings for Journalists
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEFree online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.
Airtable of JournalismAI Case Studies
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEIn the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism
Mozilla AI
Mountain View, CA, USAA startup — and community — building trustworthy and open-source AI.
A course from the Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial in Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Public Interest AI explainer site
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyA project map of Public Interest AI and related research
Public Interest AI world map
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyThis interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.
An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media
Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More
First AI-written speech delivered by US congressman
Capitol HillRepresentative for Massachusetts Jake Auchincloss used ChatGPT to help introduce legislation supporting AI research
Equitech Scholars
Chicago, ILAn 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact
An article tracking the development of pro-social deepfakes, despite the vast majority consisting of pornographic images of women
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models
Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation UK (CDEI)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.
Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.
Cívica Digital
MonterreyTechnology to strengthen citizens - Transforma a tu organización en aliada de la ciudadanía.
ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office. For every toxic tweet that passes a certain threshold, the bot posts a “positivitweet.” ParityBOT has been deployed in Canada during the federal election in 2019, and the Alberta election in 2019. During this time: +245,000 tweets were processed 393 candidates were tracked +20,000 positive tweets sent
Pinpoint
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.
Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.
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