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It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.
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.
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.
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.
Data for Good group
CanadaWe 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.
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
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
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.
WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.
Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?
One Concern
Menlo Park, California, United StatesOur platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.
Google AI for Social Good
Mountain View, CA, USAAt 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.
Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.
Libre AI
Dublin, IrelandLibre 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."
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
Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)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
Dr.Message 防詐達人
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)which is true and which is false? Pass it to me and know right away! //臉書網頁優惠商品、免費Line貼圖、朋友傳的買一送一好康，到底哪些是真哪個是假？傳給我馬上知道!
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.
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
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
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...
Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.
A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.
Sensors.AFRICA
NairobiWe are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
RapidPro
Nyaruka, Kigali, RwandaRapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.
Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth
DATAJUSTICE project
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UKThis project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication
ZenCity
Tel Aviv, IsraelHear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level
A useful comparison of videochat solutions
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Chalmers
TorontoChalmers 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.
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.
Reveal hidden gender bias
Tea Base
Chinatown Centre, Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, CanadaTea Base is a DIY community art space in the basement of the Chinatown Centre in Toronto.
Operation Serenata de Amor
Brazil (Brasil)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.
Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.
Holopolis MR
Taiwan (T'ai-wan)Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized
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