Calgary’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.

• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Data visualization

Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

More Donations. Less Work. Right Now.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

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

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

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 Tech
• The People
• Civic data

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).

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

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.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Emerging tech

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The professional association for design

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.

• apps
• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

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.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

A useful comparison of videochat solutions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• COVID

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…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

• harassment
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Chalmers can help you find things like: free meals, overnight shelter, clothing banks, emergency contacts and can point you to offline and online mental health services.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

• air quality
• noise
• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

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

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Produced with AdaptNY and ISeeChange, along with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WNYC's resilience reporting is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.

• heat

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Villages in the Indonesian province of Aceh that have successfully reduced forest fires are to be rewarded through a clever new scheme that uses blockchain-based smart contracts. Here's how it...

• Responsible consumption and production
• Life on land
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Heat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.

• housing

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

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

• CONSUL
• experiments

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

The 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

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Urban planning

This interactive WebVR experience creates a space out of time to explore memory from an intimate and poetic perspective.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

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.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Reveal hidden gender bias

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

The 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.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Organize campaigns

Tea Base is a DIY community art space in the basement of the Chinatown Centre in Toronto.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Emerging tech

Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Artificial intelligence-driven transcription tool

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools