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Forty-nine tools anyone can use to leverage emerging tech for the public good. This collection includes mainstream commercial products as well as explicitly pro-social offerings. These tools were compiled while researching the Pathways Through the Portal report.
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Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change
Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.
Neighborland
Boulder, CONeighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
Purple Air
110 West 13800 South, Draper, UT 84020, USAA low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.
Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross
Call Time
Los Angeles, CAOnline political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.
WAYS: What Aren't You Seeing?
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity
Sudpay
SenegalSUDPAY is a startup specialized in Mobility and Ticketing Solutions. It develops service platforms and electronic payment platforms adapted to African realities.
The alumni Twitter account for a 2-year graduate program in Tisch, NYU to explore the creative uses of communication technologies
Perspective
Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAPerspective is an API that uses machine learning to spot abuse and harassment online.
NetHope
10615 Judicial Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USANetHope is a collaboration of leading international NGOs serving tens of millions each year in 180+ countries.
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.
Cicero
990 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA, USALegislative district matching and elected official data
Legal Robot
548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, USALegal tech startup using Artificial Intelligence to make Legal Documents less painful & improve Access to Justice.
AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers
The professional association for design
We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.
Artificial intelligence-driven transcription tool
Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.
Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption
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
Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?
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.
Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies
An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized
Law Padi
NigeriaLawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.
How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
Botcheck.me
Berkeley, California, USAWe use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Pol.is
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.
Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.
Outfox AI
New York, NYOutfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.
With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
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