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Bitfury land registry in Georgia
Georgia (Sakartvelo)The blockchain-based land-titling project is being presented at both Harvard and the United Nations.
The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.
MoCho: Mobility Choices and Societal Impacts
MIT Media LabThis tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.
Legal Chat
AustraliaLegal Services Commission of South Australia’s Legal Chat service provides live chat support during working hours.
Law Padi
NigeriaLawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.
Soofa
24 Thorndike Street, Cambridge, MA 02141Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.
A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management
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, USAThe Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.
The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.
In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.
Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies
Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things
MassachusettsIn this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers
NYC Blockchain Center
New York City Economic Development Corporation, Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York, NY, USAthe City’s first public-private NYC Blockchain Center
Colloqate Design
4025 Ulloa St, New Orleans, LA 70119, USAExploring the culturally specific language of Design + Justice habitually juxtaposed at a higher frequency than chance
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UKMeasuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods
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.
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.
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
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.
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
We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.
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
PakAirQuality
PakistanPakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.
Fora
68 Harrison Ave BostonHuman-Led + AI-Supported Listening
Cofact Thailand
Bangkok, ThailandFight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking
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
WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.
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.
It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.
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.
Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence
We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.
Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities
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.
CityScope LEGO city
MIT Media LabIntervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions
Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.
Blackbaud
Charleston, South CarolinaThe world's leading cloud software company powering #socialgood.
This weekly digest email helps you more efficiently manage your portfolio so you prioritize the right donors at the right time and raise more
The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.
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.
Wagbot
New ZealandWagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.
DATAJUSTICE project
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UKThis project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication
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
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
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.
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