Projects - Emerging tech

Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)

The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UK

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

Vermont report on blockchain experiments

Vermont

AR Hoverlay prototypes

MIT Media Lab

At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…

Greenpeace

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

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

books
labor

HateLab

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

Amicable

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.

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.

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

David E. Glover Center for Technology

Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond

Stanford Predicting Poverty

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

COMBINING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POVERTY

No poverty

Get off my cloud: cyber warfare, international humanitarian law, and the protection of civilians

Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross

Smart Cities Expo

Barcelona, Spain

Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

Bayes Impact

Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies

Nonprofit Tech Conference

621 SW Alder St, Portland, OR 97205, USA

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.

Gravyty Stewardship

The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.

US Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

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.

ML5js

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.

Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy

Gower Street, London, UK

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

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

Dr.Message 防詐達人

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

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LINE

Institute for the Future

Institute for the Future, Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, USA

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

workshops

Federated Learning Concept

An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized

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

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.

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Open Energy Monitor

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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

Conferencing for Government Meetings

A useful comparison of videochat solutions

ZenCity

Tel Aviv, Israel

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

Autogrid Flex

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.

Sustainable cities and communities

Purple Air

110 West 13800 South, Draper, UT 84020, USA

A low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.

air quality

MobLab Dispatch

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

Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies

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.

Pollution Explorers

Europe

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.

Boston's Smart Streets page

Boston, MA

City page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy

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

Textio Tone

Reveal hidden gender bias

Gender Equality

Self-fabricated Face Shields

People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers

Bellingcat

the home of online investigations

Waag

Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam, Netherlands

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR)

Toronto

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.