The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• cities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

• cities
• streetscape
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Resources and leads for investigating algorithms in society

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change

• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

#SelfCare is a free, simple, and beautiful AI companion for joy, self-connection, and hope.

• apps

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• cities
• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

A framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability

• reports

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Providing real-time Air Quality Index & Allergy Pollen & Weather Data, as well as Protection Recommendations and Forecast.

• air quality
• apps

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.

• Google
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech

a laboratory for digital governance

• Emerging tech
• Civic apps outfits
• Blockchain

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects
• COVID

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Hyphen-Labs is an international collective working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Skilllab is a social business developing technology-based solutions to empower employment services to better integrate job seekers into local labour markets.

• Decent work and economic growth

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

From bikes to scooters and everything in between, dockless mobility offers cities a range of new options and challenges. Ride Report is your comprehensive toolset to manage emerging mobility services.

• apps
• cycling

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

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

• CONSUL
• experiments

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

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.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Project Management tool

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Pentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Continued 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.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

• cities
• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Hear 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

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

• harassment
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

GSA launched the U.S. Federal Blockchain program for federal agencies and U.S. businesses who are interested in exploring distributed ledger tech.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

• books

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

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.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

A 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

• apps

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Reveal hidden gender bias

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields