Civic Tech Field Guide

Automating NYC

New York City

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

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

European AI & Society Fund

Rue Royale 941000, Brussels, Belgium

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

Health Complaints Assist

Australia

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

URBEM

Monterrey

URBEM es una plataforma para digitalizar trámites y servicios de gobierno, y automatizar la atención ciudadana con Inteligencia Artificial.

Hayden.ai

2150 Shattuck Avenue, Penthouse Berkeley, CA 94704, USA

Artificial intelligence powered mobility solution for smart cities

mobility

Fora

68 Harrison Ave Boston

Human-Led + AI-Supported Listening

apps

LISA

United States of America (the)

Robot Lawyer Lisa works with you and another party to generate a mutually-satisfactory Non-Disclosure Agreement without involving human lawyers

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.

Sustainable cities and communities

Go Vocal

Bd Pachéco 34, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium

The only platform you need for meaningful community engagement.

Association Civic Tech Europe

Samurai Labs

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

harassment

Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change

New York City

We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.

Holopolis bot

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

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.

Gravyty Go

Travel to the right donors, at the right time.

Gravyty Guide

This weekly digest email helps you more efficiently manage your portfolio so you prioritize the right donors at the right time and raise more

urbAIn

Pavillon des Sciences de la gestion, bureau R-4150 315 Rue Sainte-Catherine Est Montréal (Québec) H2X 3X2 Canada

urbAIn is a series of unique, one-day events gathering 100-150 city leaders and innovators to explore the many ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) is changing city life.

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.

Facebook Tracking Exposed

Italy (Italia)

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

Facebook

Microsoft AI for Good Challenge

Australia

In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

Quartz Bot Studio

New York City

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

COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), North Northlake Way, Seattle, WA, USA

Access this dataset to help with the fight against COVID-19

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.

partisan

Drones & Dreams: A Speculative Sprint Story Collection

Asia

A speculative story sprint collection

Apptivism

Scotland

Helping citizens and communities to give their view on civic issues through Messenger chatbots

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

NYC Automated Decisions Systems Task Force

City Hall, Centre Street, New York, NY, USA

Local Law 49

Copy, Paste, Legislate

Phoenix, AZ, USA

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

Pondera

80 Blue Ravine Road, Folsom, CA 95630, USA

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

fraud detection

Polco

Middleton, WI

Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.

Obscuracam

Obscuracam is a photo and video app for Android that keeps certain information private. Last updated 2017.

apps

Bail-setting algorithms in Philadelphia

Philadelphia

Philadelphia should think twice about its risk-assessment algorithm.

criminal justice

rAInbow

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

rAInbow is a smart companion for domestic abuse victims, people in difficult or abusive, controlling situations and unhealthy relationships

Canada's Directive on Automated Decision-Making

Canada

To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness

PredPol

Santa Cruz, CA 95063, USA

PredPol’s software technology enables law enforcement agencies to better prevent crime in their communities by generating daily predictions on the places and times that crimes are most likely to occur during any patrol shift.

crime

Innowatts

A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management

Climate action

Tinder bot used in UK elections

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

We used a computer program to talk to young people on the dating app about the U.K. election. The results were amazing.

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

ML5js

ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.

Ford's Public Interest Technology campaign

320 E 43rd St, New York, NY 10017, USA

Technology at work for the public

Block Party

New York City

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

Atlas AI

Palo Alto

Our software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.

development

MetaFact

India (Bhārat)

Validated Real Time Information

Apologia Project

Australia

Using the power of satirical AI -generated media to create awareness about the climate emergency.

Climate action

Development Seed Vulnerable Housing pilot

Colombia

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

housing

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.