Civic Tech Field Guide

Machine Learning and the Rule of Law

Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.

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Conversation AI

Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

Conversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.

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Botcheck.me

Berkeley, California, USA

We use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.

Digital Asia Hub

Hong Kong

AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG

Perspective

Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

Perspective is an API that uses machine learning to spot abuse and harassment online.

Cofacts

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Cofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.

LINE

Curbie

With curbside delivery on the rise, get a quick free tool to help you know when customers arrive to pickup their order.

Plural Policy (formerly Civic Eagle)

Minnesota

Shape the future of public policy with Plural’s intuitive, AI-powered legislative tracking and stakeholder collaboration tools. Effectively influence US federal and state legislation and say goodbye to clunky legacy software and manual spreadsheets.

AppCityLife

7801 Academy Road NE, Albuquerque, NM 87109

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

InVID Verification Plugin

Europe

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

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Civil Cops

New Delhi

Report Civic & Social Issues through our Artificially Intelligent chat & voice interfaces integrated onto all the major social media channels

Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.

Facebook Suicide Prevention

1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

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.

Centre for Collective Intelligence Design

58 Victoria Embankment

The Centre for Collective Intelligence Design will explore how human and machine intelligence can be combined to make the most of our collective knowledge and develop innovative and effective solutions to social challenges.

DIUx xView Detection Challenge

Pentagon Building, Washington, DC, USA

Pentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery

Stanford AI Lab (SAIL)

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1962.

Assembl

Paris, France

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

ChatGPT

Belisar.io

A bot of legislative proximity that seeks to promote communication between government and citizens through artificial intelligence.

MoCho: Mobility Choices and Societal Impacts

MIT Media Lab

This tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.

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UN Global Pulse Lab Kampala radio analysis with machine learning

Kampala, Uganda

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

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Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)

The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UK

A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.

The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

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Amicable

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.

Stanford Predicting Poverty

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

COMBINING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POVERTY

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Bayes Impact

Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies

Gravyty Stewardship

The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.

Robota

Israel (Jisra'el)

Robota is a chatbot that guides workers to file a lawsuit against their current or former employers.

RadicalRelay

Radical Relay is your feisty aunty helping you ask those questions before, during, and after an appointment or ER visit.

Anatomy of an AI System

An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor

Detecting and understanding harmful content online

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Developing benchmarks and datasets for online harms researchers, and guidance for practitioners using tools to detect online harms

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Defusor

Factory 619, 66 bis Avenue Salah Ben Youssef, Tunis, Tunisia

We leverage both AI and Human Expertise to allow everyone to check facts, understand News sources and content, empower truth and consolidate responsible Brands and Media in the MENA region.

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Doxbox Trustbot

The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.

Aunt Meiyu

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups