Projects - Emerging tech

UNDP Accelerator Labs

Level 21, One United Nations Plaza, New York NY 10017

We’re building the world’s largest and fastest learning network around development challenges.

Decent work and economic growth

Berkeley City Council municipal bonds civic crowdfunding

Berkeley

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

Luftdaten

Stuttgart, Germany

Measure air quality yourself

air quality

WAYS: What Aren't You Seeing?

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists

DeepMind

We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all

Open Climate Fix

240 Bellenden Road London, SE15 4BY United Kingdom

Uses open-science to mitigate climate change. Open Climate Fix is a new non-profit research and development lab, totally focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.

Climate action

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

Roo

Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?

CivicSmart

Innovation has been at the core of our corporate DNA since 1936, and the last several years have seen a wave of innovation that is delivering the promise of Smart Parking to cities of all sizes.

Sama (formerly SamaSource)

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.

Decent work and economic growth

Athena Coalition

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

Amazon

Red Flags

Hungary (Magyarország)

The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements

Brandwatch Consumer Research

48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USA

Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.

commercial

Copy, Paste, Legislate

Phoenix, AZ, USA

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

Topl

708 Main street, Houston, TX, USA

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

supply chain

European AI & Society Fund

Rue Royale 941000, Brussels, Belgium

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe. Our long-term vision is to promote an ecosystem of European public interest and civil society organisations working on policy and technology, based on a diversity of actors and a plurality of goals that represents society as a whole.

Health Complaints Assist

Australia

Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

The Colored Girls Museum VR

A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum

Hayden.ai

2150 Shattuck Avenue, Penthouse Berkeley, CA 94704, USA

Artificial intelligence powered mobility solution for smart cities

mobility

Transfer Gallery

The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.

BigUp

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

Gender Equality

Pollution Explorers

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.

Beta Blocks

Boston, MA

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

International Conference on Machine Learning

A premier international conference for researchers on machine learning

WITNESS

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

human rights

Lambda Solutions

Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.

WorkIt Walmart employee app

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

Bots for Charity

Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USA

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

Journalism 360

Washington, D.C. – Eleven projects that seek to help develop and expand best practices in immersive storytelling, including narratives, ethics and production, will receive a share of $285,000 as winners ... Read More

Change.org India's Messenger Bot

India (Bhārat)

Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.

Tzina: symphony of longing

Israel (Jisra'el)

This interactive WebVR experience creates a space out of time to explore memory from an intimate and poetic perspective.

Open AI

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

commercial

Ignis

Lincoln, NE, USA

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

fires

ICTWorks

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.

Programa de Derechos Humanos

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

El 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.

Wagbot

New Zealand

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

Google AI for Social Good

Mountain View, CA, USA

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

Google

Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies

Oxford, UK

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

Quartz Bot Studio

New York City

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

Blackbaud

Charleston, South Carolina

The world's leading cloud software company powering #socialgood.

Link NYC

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

Amsterdam DocLab IDFA Festival

IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, Frederiksplein, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is one of the leading documentary events in the world.

Call Time

Los Angeles, CA

Online political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.