Projects - Emerging tech

HeatSeek

New York City

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

housing

Enjambre

Mexico

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.

Lambda Solutions

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

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

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.

DeepMind

We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all

Tomorrow Lab

45 East Broadway, NY, New York 10002, USA

An Innovation Studio for Hardware Products

Citizen Science (book)

Gower Street, London, UK

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

books

Hello Lampost

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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

cities

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.

commercial

Aunt Meiyu

Taiwan

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

LINE

Holopolis MR

Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized. It turns on the GPS with computer vision feature so that the users can bump into virtual public forums such as a forum setup next to the priority seats. Mature of mixed reality enables “engaging” civic engagement Despite the naming war of AR/VR/MR/XR, the substance of connecting information, overlaying visualization and designing interaction between real and virtual world brought us to a journey t...

Otter.ai

Artificial intelligence-driven transcription tool

Ghost Work

How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

books
labor

edX

edX, Portland Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

The platform for education and learning.

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

Athena Coalition

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

Amazon

Red Flags

Hungary (Magyarország)

The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements

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."

Aspen Tech Policy Hub Fellowship Program

Bay Area, CA, USA

Our 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.

Seeing AI

Redmond, WA

A 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

apps

Conversations with Bina

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.

Copy, Paste, Legislate

Phoenix, AZ, USA

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

The Colored Girls Museum VR

A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum

Hayden.ai

2150 Shattuck Avenue, Penthouse Berkeley, CA 94704, USA

Artificial intelligence powered mobility solution for smart cities

mobility

Smart Cities Expo

Barcelona, Spain

Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

International Conference on Machine Learning

A premier international conference for researchers on machine learning

OptiRTC

Opti prepares today's infrastructure for tomorrow's storms. We provide Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of stormwater systems at watershed scale.

Holopolis bot

Holopolis bot allows always available participation. It packages vTaiwan as a contact you can add friend with and share your opinions on cases under discussion.

CityScope LEGO city

MIT Media Lab

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

Google AI for Social Good

Mountain View, CA, USA

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

Change.org India's Messenger Bot

India

Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

Boston's Smart Streets page

Boston, MA

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

Bellingcat

the home of online investigations

Waag

Nieuwmarkt 4, 1012 CR Amsterdam, Netherlands

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.

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.

Wagbot

New Zealand

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

Heartificial Intelligence

Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

books

Facebook Tracking Exposed

Italy

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

Facebook

Forensic Architecture

University of London, Malet Street, London, UK

Uses 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

human rights

Quartz Bot Studio

New York City

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

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.

Amsterdam DocLab IDFA Festival

IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, Frederiksplein, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is one of the leading documentary events in the world.

Call Time

Los Angeles, CA

Online political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.