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Sensemaker
New York CitySensemaker, an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, helps make sense of large-scale online conversations, leveraging LLMs to categorize statements, and summarize statements and voting patterns to surface actionable insights.
What Could BG Be
Bowling Green, KentuckyEngagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky
Google Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform
Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases
Career Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.
This new badge is designed to highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety, help users make more informed choices about the VPN apps they use, and build confidence in the apps they ultimately download.
For MASA AL2, the lab will test the public version of the app (available in the Play Store) and provide assessment feedback directly to developers, including remediation steps for any flagged issues.
AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAGoogle DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-written summaries, while still representing minority views in the final version.
Generative Agent Simulations of 1,000 People
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAStanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview
"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge
Unlock the power of your data with interactive dashboards and beautiful reports that inspire smarter business decisions. It's easy and free.
As an administrator for your organization, you’ll receive an alert if a user is detected as a possible victim of a government-backed attack.
Google's Election Day Google Doodle (US)
Democracy Works, Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, USAA civic feature that helps Americans find out to vote right from within Google Search, in partnership with VIP and Democracy Works
Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
A comprehensive collection of six years of telemetry data from three Google buildings, providing real-world insights for developing and validating optimal control solutions.
A powerful tool designed to train reinforcement learning agents to optimize energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions in buildings.
"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."
Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.
Google Censorship
China (Zhong Guo)A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.
The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.
Google MethaneSAT partnership
United States of America (the)Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.
Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure
Google Public Sector
Mountain View, CA, USAGoogle Cloud's public sector division
Pinpoint
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.
Harassment Manager
AfricaHarassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.
"Google is working with non-profit groups like No Kid Hungry and FoodFinder, as well as the US Department of Agriculture, to aggregate 90,000 locations with free food support across all 50 states — with more locations to come." - Andrew J. Hawkins
Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.
An algorithm that attempts to analyze which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people.
Across Maps, Search, Nest, Flights, and Shopping
The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.
Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.
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.
Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.
Project Shield
New York CityProject Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.
BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.
Google Trends
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore what the world is searching
Waze Connected Citizens
Waze, Yigal Alon Street, Tel Aviv-Yafo, IsraelOver a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.
North America Google Policy Fellowship
Washington, DCOur fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.
A dedicated dashboard to understand coronavirus searches
Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.
Google Person Finder helps people reconnect with friends and loved ones in the aftermath of natural and humanitarian disasters.
Google.org Global Impact Awards
United States of America (the)Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.
Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products
Google Analytics
Mountain View, CA, USAIt gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.
The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.
The Civic Information API allows you to build applications that allow citizens and voters to know about their political representation and voting locations.
Jigsaw
New York CityHow can technology make people in the world safer?
Google.org
United States of America (the)We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.
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