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Suggested reading: Pathways Through the Portal: A Field Scan of Emerging Technologies in the Public Interest
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Horizon State is about unlocking the power of communities to drive organisations forward.
This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers
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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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.
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.
Institute for the Future
Institute for the Future, Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, USA50 years of leading the world in strategic futures
How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
Legal Chat
AustraliaLegal Services Commission of South Australia’s Legal Chat service provides live chat support during working hours.
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.
Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies
Media Democracy Fund
Media Democracy Fund, Connecticut Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USAAt the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.
Innovation has been at the core of our corporate DNA since 1936, and the last several years have seen a wave of innovation that is delivering the promise of Smart Parking to cities of all sizes.
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Law Padi
NigeriaLawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.
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.
NetHope
10615 Judicial Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030, USANetHope is a collaboration of leading international NGOs serving tens of millions each year in 180+ countries.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
Bots for Charity
Direct Relief, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara, California 93117, USADirect Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.
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.
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Brandwatch Consumer Research
48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USAGet consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.
Calgary's noise-sensing network
Calgary, AB, CanadaCalgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government partnership.
Sea Level Rise Toolbox
MiamiInteractive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels
Open Climate Fix
240 Bellenden Road London, SE15 4BY United KingdomUses 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.
Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai
We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Hello Lampost
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.
The professional association for design
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
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…
The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.
Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.
CityScope LEGO city
MIT Media LabIntervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions
A useful comparison of videochat solutions
Enjambre
MexicoWe 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.
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