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AR Hoverlay prototypes
MIT Media LabAt 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…
Artificial intelligence-driven transcription tool
The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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.
News Provenance Project (NPP)
New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USAThe News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.
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.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
BRCK
iHub NairobiAccess the internet simply and reliably where you are. BRCK is a rugged, self powered, cloud enabled wifi hotspot router with built in fail-overs.
PakAirQuality
PakistanPakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.
Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.
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.
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross
ParticipaBOt
Cochabamba, BoliviaUna plataforma de participación ciudadana digital que permite visibilizar y priorizar propuestas ciudadanas a nivel nacional
The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.
Waze Connected Citizens
Waze, Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelOver a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.
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.
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.
WAYS: What Aren't You Seeing?
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists
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
We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all
Build apps that issue and verify blockchain-based credentials for academic credentials, professional certifications, workforce development, and civic records.
Aunt Meiyu
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups
The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
HeLawyer
Benin (Bénin)HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.
SONYC Sounds of New York City
Brooklyn, NYSONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.
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.
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
Hayden.ai
2150 Shattuck Avenue, Penthouse Berkeley, CA 94704, USAArtificial intelligence powered mobility solution for smart cities
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
WhatsApp: The Widespread Use of WhatsApp in Political Campaigning in the Global South
Brunnenstraße 9, 10119 Berlin, GermanyThe research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
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
Boston's Smart Streets page
Boston, MACity page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy
Holopolis bot
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Holopolis bot allows always available participation. It packages vTaiwan as a contact you can add friend with and share your opinions on cases under discussion.
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAIntroducing The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Revolutionizing Prosthetics
11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland, USARevolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-natural motor and sensory capability to upper-extremity amputee patients.
Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence
FutureAir
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USAFutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality
Luftdaten
Stuttgart, GermanyMeasure air quality yourself
Travel to the right donors, at the right time.
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.
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.
Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.
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