Civic Tech Field Guide

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

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

Apptivism

Scotland

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

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.

Decent work and economic growth

Spot

for reporting workplace harassment

harassment

ClearGov Transparency

Maynard, MA

Cloud-based budget and performance management software built for local governments.

ChatGPT

FarmBeats

to enable data-driven farming

CoVIg-19 Plasma Bot

Bot to help recruit recovered COVID-19 patients to help treat sick ones

Microsoft

Impact Hub Harare

Zimbabwe

Impact Hub Harare prides itself for being a catalyst of social impact.

Hubs

Dozorro

Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption

Partnership on AI

The Partnership on AI was established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society.

Sorcero

Sorcero – How we learn

WattTime

Oakland, California

Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public.

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

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."

BigUp.AI

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

Gender Equality

Article One

Washington, DC

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

Roo

Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?

Justice Today

Zimbabwe

Justice Today is a mobile application that protects citizens from crime and utilizes artificial intelligence to educate citizens on the steps to take when victimized. The platform also allows citizens to report crime in real time

Communicating with the government

Open Field

Los Angeles, CA

OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

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

Facebook AI mapping for humanitarian aid and development

Palo Alto

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

Facebook

GOT Data

Prishtina, Kosovo

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

Polis

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.