"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

• Airbnb
• civic features
• Climate action

• Civic features

Inactive -- Once you install the Android app, you can assign “trusted” status to your closest friends and family. Your trusted contacts will be able to see your activity status — whether you’ve moved around recently and are online — to quickly know if you're OK.

• apps
• civic features
• Android

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic features

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

• housing
• Airbnb
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Twitter's community-based approach to misinformation

• civic features
• Twitter

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Civic features
• Help more people run for office

Allows local governments to notify residents with important information

• civic features
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Register to vote on Snapchat

• civic features
• Snap

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders.

• civic features
• suicide prevention
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Facebook lance un outil pour faciliter l’accès aux programmes des candidats à la présidentielle

• civic features
• Facebook

• Matching views to votes

Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages

• civic features
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data science for social good
• Data schemas and standards