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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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.
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
Machine Learning Trainings for Journalists
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEFree online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.
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 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.
Public Interest AI explainer site
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyA project map of Public Interest AI and related research
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
Ocean Artificial Intelligence
Rhode IslandConsolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.
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.
Pinpoint
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.
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
Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.
Cívica Digital
MonterreyTechnology to strengthen citizens - Transforma a tu organización en aliada de la ciudadanía.
Desgrabador
ArgentinaVoy a extraer por vos los subtítulos generados automáticamente por Youtube.
Biden Administration Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USANon-binding guidance from the White House
JusticeAI
Palo AltoJusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.
LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.
Chequeado's WhatsApp bot
Latin AmericaLatin American fact-checking organization's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks
No Minor Futures is a public education campaign amplifying children's hopes and fears about AI technology. It uses animations, podcasts, workshops, and social media.
A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.
Dark Data Project
TorontoThe Dark Data Project helps organizations uncover, deobfuscate, semantify and analyze problematic datasets
SunTec.AI
CaliforniaSunTec.AI is an experienced data annotation company that offers premium data annotation services across diverse industry verticals. We create customized business-specific solutions for advanced domains, like AI & ML, robotics, healthcare, and technology.
NCRI has built its own proprietary platform that has played a critical role in the identification and forecasting of emerging threats that threaten the Economic, physical and social health of civil society.
This project uses advanced machine learning techniques to detect propaganda accounts on Twitter.
Civic Signal
AfricaCivicSignal is Code for Africa's AI/machine learning initiative, using large-scale media monitoring to map the content/creator landscape and underlying business models for disinformation profiteers. It uses MIT's Media Cloud software.
Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.
Coded Bias follows M.I.T. Media Lab computer scientist Joy Buolamwini, along with data scientists, mathematicians, and watchdog groups from all over the world, as they fight to expose the discrimination within algorithms now prevalent across all spheres of daily life.
Open for Good improves localized AI training data in Africa, Asia and beyond
The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom
Everyone is talking about AI, but how and where is it actually being used? We've mapped out interesting examples where AI has been harmful and where it's been helpful.
DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.
Urban AI
FranceUrban AI is a Think Tank that proposes ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of urban AI.
GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives
My Data Rights
South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights
CivicPlus government Chatbot
302 South 4th Street, Suite 500 Manhattan, Kansas 66502With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.
an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.
AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)
MIT Media LabFor entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.
Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.
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Council Data Project
Seattle, WA, United States of AmericaTransparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.
Feminist.AI works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all.
Using integrated sensors and artificial intelligence, Livio AI enhances your listening experiences, proactively manages your health and provides access to information to simplify your life.
Algorithm Tips
Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USAResources and leads for investigating algorithms in society
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