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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Atlas of Urban AI
Barcelona, SpainATLAS is a crowdsourced (map) repository of projects happening in cities involving the use of artificial intelligence systems.
Camden Talks Data: Machine learning
Camden Town, LondonThis video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.
MyCity Chatbot
New York City, NY, USANYC's Business Services Chatbot which "uses Microsoft's Azure AI services to provide information in response to questions you have about starting or operating your business" in ten+ languages
AI Journalism Lab
CUNY Graduate CenterThis 3-month hybrid, tuition-free and highly participatory program invites journalists to explore generative AI through theory and practice, and add meaningfully to the conversation.
Parla
Platz der Luftbrücke 4-6, 12101, Berlin, GermanyParla has access to more than 11,000 publicly available documents that have been published on the parliamentary documentation system PARDOK in the current legislative period.
This self assessment tool is designed to help policymakers in government understand how prepared their government is to use AI in a trustworthy way in the public sector.
This year we assess the AI readiness of 193 governments across the world. We are also introducing an interactive map to make our data more accessible!
Greyparrot
LondonUnlock the power of AI waste analytics
CrossTech
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Develops a suite of AI tools for automated inspection systems for railways and mass transit optimization
OpenSky
Ireland (Éire)Delivering results for Enterprise & Government for 20+ years - through Data, Process Automation and AI expertise, driven by continuous innovation.
Anonimometro
RomeAlgorithmic tool by the Italian government to fight tax evasion by cross-checking self-reported income with assets and other databases in a privacy-protecting approach
Prolific
LondonEasily find vetted research participants and AI taskers at scale
chatbot.team
GurugramChatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.
Innovatiana
Paris, FranceInnovatiana is an Impact Tech startup specialized in Data Labeling for AI.
AI for Institutions
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The question we seek to address is: can we use AI itself to help us design and build better institutions, which enhance human capabilities for collaborating, governing, and living together?
The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.
Cooperative AI Foundation
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.
Search over 2000 reports of AI harms
As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.
Talk to the City
San FranciscoTalk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.
AI Supply Chain Observatory
San FranciscoThe AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.
Recursive Public
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.
Omidyar Responsible AI funding
1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society
StraightLines by Lucid Lens
San FranciscoHere we introduce StraightLines, a proof-of-concept tool developed by AOI’s Lucid Lens team, that automatically rewrites news headlines to reflect the content of articles in a more accurate, less sensational way.
OpenAI Partnership with American Journalism Project to support local news
United States of America (the)A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.
AI • Objectives • Institute
San FranciscoThe AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.
Gov.UK Incubator for Artificial Intelligence
10 Downing StreetThe [UK] Government is establishing an elite team of highly empowered technical experts at the heart of government. Their mission is to help departments harness the potential of AI to improve lives and the delivery of public services.
CiviClick (USA)
Washington, DCCiviClick is changing the way people interact with lawmakers through AI.
European AI & Society Fund Experts
Brussels, BelgiumThis list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.
Ban Cam: кампания против распознавания лиц
Russian Federation (the)Системы распознавания лиц являются технологиями двойного назначения и могут использоваться для давления на общество
State of AI Report 2023
LondonRelevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.
Aquaya
San FranciscoAquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.
Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC)
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.
Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.
CoCounsel
United States of America (the)The First AI Legal Assistant, Made for Lawyers
Polimorphic
San FranciscoPolimorphic is the first Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software specifically built for local governments.
Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)
Washington, DC"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law."
Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.
Chat2024
United States of America (the)An AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.
Cheeri IMM
Hong KongBy making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.
Building Trust in AI: A Landscape Analysis of Government AI Programs
Waterloo, ON, CanadaA critical review of the accuracy of countries' submissions to the OECD's AI Policy Observatory site, tracking national government AI programs
JournalismAI's project gallery
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AESix AI tools under active development by professional newsrooms
One of multiple studies in the US using artificial intelligence to analyze the tone and word choice police officers use, to determine whether it leads to unnecessarily escalations with the public.
African AI Observatory
Cape Town, South AfricaBringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.
JUST AI
LondonJUST AI is an independent network of researchers and practitioners committed to understanding the social and ethical value of data and AI
Civic AI Handbook
LondonThe Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.
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