Civic Tech Field Guide
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Technologies that train models to autonomously support or function independently of direct human effort.
Suggested resources:
- 110 ways civil society orgs can use AI
- The threat and promise of generative AI in the regulatory process.
- AI and the humanitarian sector: hype or hope? 🔊
- 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
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An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.
AI Now Institute
New York City, NY, USAThe AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.
In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia. The report explores the question: How can civil society participate in AI governance or intervene in other ways to safeguard AI safety and security?
Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue
Doublethink Labs
Taipei, TaiwanDoublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.
Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
Project Debater is the first AI system that can debate humans on complex topics. The goal is to help people build persuasive arguments and make well-informed decisions.
The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.
AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!
One Concern
Menlo Park, California, United StatesOur platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.
Center 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.
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.
Botcheck.me
Berkeley, California, USAWe use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.
Health Complaints Assist
AustraliaHealth Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.
Seeing AI
Redmond, WAA free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects
Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai
DIUx xView Detection Challenge
Pentagon Building, Washington, DC, USAPentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery
In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.
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.
VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers
URBEM
MonterreyURBEM es una plataforma para digitalizar trámites y servicios de gobierno, y automatizar la atención ciudadana con Inteligencia Artificial.
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Hayden.ai
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Penthouse Berkeley, CA 94704, USAArtificial intelligence powered mobility solution for smart cities
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."
Red Flags
HungaryThe Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements
Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UKMeasuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods
Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.
Digital Asia Hub
Hong KongAN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG
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.
Hiring people from the bottom of the pyramid to complete digital work - SamaHub is Samasource’s training data annotation platform used to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. The platform ensures high-quality, human-powered training data and validation for world leading AI teams.
With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.
Automating NYC
New York, NYWe want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.
The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.
A speculative story sprint collection
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.
ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.
Amicable
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant andreal time support to users.
The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.
Rosie
BrazilAn 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.
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.
To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness
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
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