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Highrise
CanadaAn Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.
US Federal Virtual/Augmented Reality program
United States of America (the)The Federal VR and AR Program is a collaborative hub for the research and refinement of VR and AR business cases and pilot programs across government.
SAFELAB
1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, USAThe SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
Jakarta Smart City
JakartaIssue reporting, cameras, and sensors to improve government efficiency in Jakarta
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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.
Principled Artificial Intelligence
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USAA map of ethical and rights-based approaches
Copy, Paste, Legislate
Phoenix, AZ, USAAn investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation
Placemeter
425 Broadway, New York, NY, USAPlacemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.
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.
Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
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
EFF Guide to Messaging
Beijing Air Tracks
BeijingThe causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Waterloo, ON, CanadaCIGI builds bridges from knowledge to power by conducting world-leading research and analysis to offer innovative policy solutions for the digital era.
NetHope
10615 Judicial Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USANetHope is a collaboration of leading international NGOs serving tens of millions each year in 180+ countries.
Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies
A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.
Follow My Vote aims to change the way we vote, becoming the world's first secure open-source online voting software based on blockchain technology.
Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program
Bloomberg Philanthropies, 25 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075, USAAPPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES
Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
Gower Street, London, UKIf 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
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The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.
Factmata
114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PTEmpowering everyone with a better understanding of content.
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
The Sentry
1420 K Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20005, USAThe Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system.
Reveal hidden gender bias
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.
A useful comparison of videochat solutions
Hush City
Hardenbergstraße 40, 10623 Berlin, GermanyWith Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.
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.
A premier international conference for researchers on machine learning
Opti prepares today's infrastructure for tomorrow's storms. We provide Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of stormwater systems at watershed scale.
Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community
Tea Base
Chinatown Centre, Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, CanadaTea Base is a DIY community art space in the basement of the Chinatown Centre in Toronto.
Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence
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The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
Forensic Architecture
University of London, Malet Street, London, UKUses a mix of cutting edge technologies including 3D modeling, data mining, machine learning, pattern analysis, and virtual reality, to conduct independent investigations into human rights abuses and police killings
FarmChat
India (Bhārat)Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India
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