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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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Apptivism
ScotlandHelping citizens and communities to give their view on civic issues through Messenger chatbots
Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community
Copy, Paste, Legislate
Phoenix, AZ, USAAn investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation
Pondera
80 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom, CA 95630, USAPondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.
A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management
Bail-setting algorithms in Philadelphia
PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia should think twice about its risk-assessment algorithm.
Tinder bot used in UK elections
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)We used a computer program to talk to young people on the dating app about the U.K. election. The results were amazing.
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
To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness
PredPol
Santa Cruz, CA 95063, USAPredPol’s software technology enables law enforcement agencies to better prevent crime in their communities by generating daily predictions on the places and times that crimes are most likely to occur during any patrol shift.
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.
Block Party
New York, NYWe make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.
Atlas AI
Palo AltoOur software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.
Your Priorities applies AI
ReykjavÃk, IcelandEmpowering citizens democratically with Artificial Intelligence
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.
Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.
Principled Artificial Intelligence
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USAA map of ethical and rights-based approaches
ClearGov Transparency
Maynard, MACloud-based budget and performance management software built for local governments.
to enable data-driven farming
Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption
Wish you had a better way to make sense of Twitter during disasters than this? Type in a keyword like #ChileEarthquake in Twitter's search box above and you'll see more tweets than you can possibly read in a day let alone keep up with for more than a few minutes. Wish there way were an easy, free and open…
Bots for Charity
Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USADirect Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Law Padi
NigeriaLawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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.
Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai
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.
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.
Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.
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
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.
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."
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
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.
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.
This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication
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
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.
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.
Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?
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