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Emerging tech that could make outsized contributions to existing battles.
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Wagbot
New ZealandWagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.
Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines
a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms
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
In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.
Law Padi
NigeriaLawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.
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, NetherlandsThe International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is one of the leading documentary events in the world.
Call Time
Los Angeles, CAOnline political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.
Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.
The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).
Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai
It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Copy, Paste, Legislate
Phoenix, AZ, USAAn investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation
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.
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
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Luftdaten
Stuttgart, GermanyMeasure air quality yourself
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.
Seeing AI
Redmond, WAA free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects
To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness
PredPol
Santa Cruz, CA 95063, USAPredPol’s software technology enables law enforcement agencies to better prevent crime in their communities by generating daily predictions on the places and times that crimes are most likely to occur during any patrol shift.
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.
Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth
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
PakAirQuality
PakistanPakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.
Aspen Tech Policy Hub Fellowship Program
Bay Area, CA, USAOur program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs.
Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.
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.
This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.
Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.
People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers
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
Principled Artificial Intelligence
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USAA map of ethical and rights-based approaches
FarmChat
IndiaUsing Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India
Governance for a Post Nation-State world. For everyone, anywhere.
A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption
Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond
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We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.
U.S. Federal Blockchain program
GSA (General Services Administration), F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAGSA launched the U.S. Federal Blockchain program for federal agencies and U.S. businesses who are interested in exploring distributed ledger tech.
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
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