AI literacy effort for government and other sectors in Cameroon

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Digital literacy

We've been organising a programme of citizen science to measure air pollution since 2013

• air quality

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Citizen science

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

A digital platform for reaching local leaders

• Communicating with the government

A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford

• Communicating with the government

The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Courses

Invites citizens to share how they'd vote on issues, and track how representatives did

• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification

​Democracy Without Borders campaign

• United Nations

• Participatory democracy

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Mapping tools

Translated: We, "Civic Tech Saitama," also want to make use of the knowledge and wisdom of "Ichi-dwellers" living in Saitama City to create services necessary for the region and make public services easy to use. To that end, we will make it possible for governments and companies to provide the data and resources necessary for creating services, create a place where various people can gather, and make us "Civic Tech" interesting.

• Civic hacking meetups

Our mission is to create a seismic shift in the way politics are done, through innovations that empower social, economic, and environmental justice movements.

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations
• Civic and social impact companies

I-­SEEED strives to build an ecosystem of “solutionists” to solve our communities’ most pressing social problems. I-SEEED believe that through innovative economic, educational, environmental design, and cutting edge technology, we can create just and sustainable communities for all.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

The Fair Tax Mark certification scheme was launched in February 2014 and seeks to encourage and recognise organisations that pay the right amount of corporation tax at the right time and in the right place

• Consumer watchdogging
• Trustmarks

The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance about what data organisations should publish and what format it should be presented in.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fundraising tools
• Data schemas and standards

ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organisation of nearly four million people, taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

• No poverty
• Good health and well-being

Korean online petition platform for citizen-driven campaigns

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology.

• Conferences
• Find a job or hire someone

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• videos

• Learn about civic tech

Artificial intelligence powered mobility solution for smart cities

• mobility

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Fight Misinformation in Thailand with Chatbot Fact-Checking

• LINE

• Fight disinformation
• Emerging tech
• Factchecking

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Subscribe to curated findings and actionable knowledge from The Living Library, delivered to your inbox every Friday

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

ipaidabribe.com is Janaagraha's unique initiative to tackle corruption by harnessing the collective energy of citizens.

• corruption

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence

• harassment

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

An overview of the civic tech landscape, including 125+ active companies and organizations.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Maidan Monitoring Information Center is a non-government non-profit civic organization that cares for societal security in Ukraine, which is achieved through public dialogue, improving the culture of communication and reducing the level of violence in society.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

Our goal is to bring our diverse networks into more effective coordination, for the duration of this crisis and beyond.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

In the last six months I coordinated a research project, called ‘Punto Zero’, aimed at understanding how to safeguard the democratic…

• Regulation

Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Training Commission is a speculative fiction email newsletter about the compromises and consequences of using technology to reckon with collective trauma.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

• state

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Growth Mosaic prepares small and growing businesses in Africa to access and manage growth investment.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• city

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contains 286,576 emails from 3,071 senders.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

IVOW (Intelligent Voices of Wisdom) is an early stage startup ​focusing on cultural intelligence in AI.

• culture

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Another Google Doc: a growing list of mutual aid pandemic disaster care

• The People
• Help out
• COVID

Microsoft AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source robotics simulation platform. From ground vehicles, wheeled robotics, aerial drones, and even static IoT devices, AirSim can capture data for models without costly field operations.

• Microsoft

• Drones

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

One of many services that makes it easier to message people individually through your existing Gmail account

• commercial

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

A public engagement method that invites citizens and stakeholders to come to a consensus together, using a mix of digital tools.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Air quality monitor Flow tracks pollutants PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and VOCs. Accurate sensors measure pollution in real time. Flow helps parents, cyclists, runners, commuters or people with asthma avoid pollution and breathe clean air.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Learn about the air we breathe.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech