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Great King Machines
India (Bhārat)We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.
Low-Cost Sensors and Systems for Ocean Discovery
Rhode IslandWe are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.
Pathways Through the Portal: A Field Scan of Emerging Technologies in the Public Interest
118 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011, USAA COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest
LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.
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
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.
Numina
Brooklyn, NYNumina 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.
A People’s Guide to AI
4126 Third St. Detroit, MI 48201This 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.
Algorithm Tips
Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USAResources and leads for investigating algorithms in society
#SelfCare is a free, simple, and beautiful AI companion for joy, self-connection, and hope.
Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change
AI Now Institute
New York City, NY, USAThe AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
Algorithmic Impact Assessments: A Practical Framework For Public Agency Accountability
New York City, NY, USAA framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability
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
AI Resources
2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, FranceAn evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government
Providing real-time Air Quality Index & Allergy Pollen & Weather Data, as well as Protection Recommendations and Forecast.
AI4Cities
EuropeSix European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.
Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.
AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.
A+ Alliance
Geneva, SwitzerlandA 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.
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.
Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.
Learn to make apps for Android devices by doing projects that can help people in your community.
A premier international conference for researchers on machine learning
ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.
Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.
Facebook Suicide Prevention
1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USAFacebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders.
Programa de Derechos Humanos
Mexico City, CDMX, MexicoEl Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la incidencia en el contexto político y social y la promoción de la justicia.
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We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
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.
Opti prepares today's infrastructure for tomorrow's storms. We provide Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of stormwater systems at watershed scale.
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Bitfury land registry in Georgia
Georgia (Sakartvelo)The blockchain-based land-titling project is being presented at both Harvard and the United Nations.
Enjambre
Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos)We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.
WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.
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.
Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies
Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies
A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management
Blockchain for Social Impact
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Knight Way, Stanford, CA, USAA field scan of blockchain for social good projects by the Stanford Graduate School of Business
In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.
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