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Indigenous AI
GlobalThe Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems.
CEE. AI Lab
Central and Eastern EuropeGame-changing program for newsrooms with the tools and knowledge to harness AI for smarter, more efficient journalism.
Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases
How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThis report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.
Using AI Now to Improve Movements’ Effectiveness: A Basic Introduction Guide for Social Activists
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAFreddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies
LIA
LisbonO assistente de pesquisa inteligente do Diário da República - AI interaction features with Portugal's national legislative gazette
The Data Labelers Association
NairobiEmpowering the Human Workforce Behind AI
AI Vulnerability Database (AVID)
United States of America (the)An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures
Red-Teaming in the Public Interest
Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA[A] vision for red-teaming in the public interest: a process that goes beyond system-centric testing of already built systems to consider the full range of ways the public can be involved in evaluating genAI harms
AI Risk and Vulnerability Alliance (AVAR)
United States of America (the)As ARVA, our mission is to empower communities to recognize, diagnose, and manage vulnerabilities in AI that affects them.
Using publicly available satellite imagery and deep learning to understand economic well-being in Africa
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAArticle in Nature by Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon & Marshall Burke
Using Collective Dialogues and AI to Find Common Ground Between Israeli and Palestinian Peacebuilders
United States of America (the)Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker
Article in Human Service Organizations by Lauri Goldkind, Joy Ming, and Alex Fink
Pathfinder
Berkeley, CA, USABuilt with precision and purpose by Mobile Pathways, Pathfinder is a secure analytics and insights platform uniquely designed for and tested with immigration attorneys, paralegals, and accredited representatives.
The Situate AI Guidebook: Co-Designing a Toolkit to Support Multi-Stakeholder Early-stage Deliberations Around Public Sector AI Proposals
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBy Anna Kawakami, Amanda Coston, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Kenneth Holstein
Participatory AI Research & Practice Symposium (PAIRS)
Paris, FranceThe first edition of PAIRS took place as an independent side-event of the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) providing a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art in participatory development and governance of AI, and to build stronger connections across the field.
Justicia Lab AI
New York, NYThe World's First Non-Profit AI Lab for Immigrant Justice
The Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard Law School Library
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAStrengthening society’s connection to knowledge by advancing our access to and understanding of the data that shapes AI.
AI and Democracy Movements Project
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAThe AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.
Nonviolent Action Lab
Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests, demonstrations, and other actions.
Make It Fair campaign
LondonThe UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.
The Data Summit is a global event that brings together data and digital leaders from around the world to share insights on overcoming barriers and best practices for using data to power the government of the future
Bridging Dictionary
MIT Media Lab[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide
The AI Art Turing Test is a website that explores the capabilities of artificial intelligence in generating art
The blog post discusses the work of the UK government's Policy Lab, which uses design, innovation, and people-centered approaches to improve policymaking
La Infrastructura Pública de IA Abierta y Multilingüe (ALIA)
Barcelona, SpainEurope's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure
Kwaai is a non-profit organization focused on developing an open-source Personal AI Operating System (pAIOS) to empower users to retain and own their personal data and knowledge models, countering the trend of AI monopolization and misappropriation of personal data
Red teaming large language models (LLMs) for resilience to scientific disinformation
United States of America (the)The red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).
AI Collaborative
1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063Advancing AI in the public interest.
Humane Intelligence
United States of America (the)Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.
Current AI
Stanford, CA, USAThrough global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.
Career Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.
Emerging Tech Primers
AspenOur team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.
The Dialogue on Technology Project (DoT)
Burnaby, CanadaDoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.
Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people
How can we ensure more inclusive and responsible AI so that diverse harms can be foreseen and mitigated, and its benefits equitably enjoyed around the world?
How can we ensure that democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances? What are achievable positive visions for a world being transformed by technology? By Aviv Ovadya
In this paper, building on insights from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, we provide a "Democracy Levels" framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically.
Cet appel à projet vise à créer et à rendre accessible les communs numériques sur l’ensemble de la chaine de l’intelligence artificielle générative afin d’assurer le développement de produits ou services innovants.
Facebook Community Forums on AI
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USAWe partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.
A key question is: who gets a say in the direction AI and other frontier technologies go?
Better Images of AI
LondonHave you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?
Clever Together
LondonWe help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.
Connected by Data
Epsom, UKWe campaign for communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data and AI
Responsible Use of Decision-Making Algorithms in the Public Sector: a Case Study Approach
Paris, FranceCourse designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.
TrollWall.ai
Prešov, SlovakiaAI-powered community management solution with human-level accuracy
Demosquare
Switzerland (Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera)Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.
AskClem.com
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)An AI chatbot developed for to engage party members at the Labour Party Conference
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