Projects - Emerging tech

AI4Cities

Europe

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

Algorithm Watch

Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes

AI Resources

2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, France

An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government

AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory

A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically

AI for Good Foundation

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

AI and the Cognitive Trap

AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

Air Matters

Providing real-time Air Quality Index & Allergy Pollen & Weather Data, as well as Protection Recommendations and Forecast.

AI Now Institute

New York City, NY, USA

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.

Media Matters for America

Media Matters for America is the nation's premier progressive media watchdog.

Journalism 360

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

Quartz Bot Studio

New York City

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

Programa de Derechos Humanos

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

El 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.

Turn.io (previously Engage Whatsapp app)

South Africa

Change the face of social impact engagement globally

WorkIt Walmart employee app

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

App Inventor for social innovation

Learn to make apps for Android devices by doing projects that can help people in your community.

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Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

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

Sama (formerly SamaSource)

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.

Decent work and economic growth

Link NYC

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

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."

Ignis

Lincoln, NE, USA

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

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Cofacts

Taiwan

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

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Digital Asia Hub

Hong Kong

AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG

Brandwatch Consumer Research

48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USA

Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.

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Copy, Paste, Legislate

Phoenix, AZ, USA

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

BigUp

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

Gender Equality

Boston's Smart Streets page

Boston, MA

City page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy

DIUx xView Detection Challenge

Pentagon Building, Washington, DC, USA

Pentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery

Stanford AI Lab (SAIL)

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1962.

Fast AI

Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community

Highrise

An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.

Outfox AI

New York City

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

ICTWorks

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.

The Colored Girls Museum VR

A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum

Placemeter

425 Broadway, New York, NY, USA

Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.