Civic Tech Field Guide

MyCity Chatbot

New York City, NY, USA

NYC's Business Services Chatbot which "uses Microsoft's Azure AI services to provide information in response to questions you have about starting or operating your business" in ten+ languages

Boti

Buenos Aires

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

Pulitzer Center: Working with journalists and newsrooms that represent the diversity of the communities affected by AI technologies, the Network seeks to address the knowledge imbalance on artificial intelligence that exists in the journalism industry and to create a multidisciplinary and collaborative ecosystem that enables journalists to report on this fast-evolving topic with skill, nuance, and impact.

Camden Talks Data: Machine learning

Camden Town, London

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

cities
local

Atlas of Urban AI

ATLAS is a crowdsourced (map) repository of projects happening in cities involving the use of artificial intelligence systems.

Farmer.CHAT

India

An AI Assistant by Gooey.AI and Digital Green to make vetted farmer knowledge accessible.

WhatsApp

AI Journalism Lab

CUNY Graduate Center

This 3-month hybrid, tuition-free and highly participatory program invites journalists to explore generative AI through theory and practice, and add meaningfully to the conversation.

Parla

Berlin

Dieser Prototyp durchsucht die Schriftlichen Anfragen und die Hauptausschussvorgänge ("Rote Nummern") der Wahlperiode 19 des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses und erstellt anhand eines Large Language Models Vorlagen für die Beantwortung der gestellten Frage.

Trustworthy AI Self Assessment Tool

London

This self assessment tool is designed to help policymakers in government understand how prepared their government is to use AI in a trustworthy way in the public sector.

Government AI Readiness Index

London

This year we assess the AI readiness of 193 governments across the world. We are also introducing an interactive map to make our data more accessible!

reports

Greyparrot

London

Unlock the power of AI waste analytics

waste

OpenSky

Ireland

Delivering results for Enterprise & Government for 20+ years - through Data, Process Automation and AI expertise, driven by continuous innovation.

CrossTech

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Develops a suite of AI tools for automated inspection systems for railways and mass transit optimization

mass transit

Rootcause

London

Rootcause is a not-for-profit consultancy helping forward thinking organisations win in modern digital information ecosystems.

Anonimometro

Rome

Algorithmic tool by the Italian government to fight tax evasion by cross-checking self-reported income with assets and other databases in a privacy-protecting approach

taxes

Prolific

London

Easily find vetted research participants and AI taskers at scale

commercial

Landlord Tech Watch

United States of America (the)

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

Federal Pilot to Integrate Public Services Into Intelligent Personal Assistants

The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Emerging Citizen Technology program, part of the Technology Transformation Service’s Innovation Portfolio, launched an open-sourced pilot to guide dozens of federal programs to make public service information available to consumer Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) for the home and office, such as Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, Google Assistant, and Facebook Messenger.

chatbot.team

Gurugram

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

commercial

Innovatiana

Paris, France

Innovatiana is an Impact Tech startup specialized in Data Labeling for AI.

commercial

Civox Ashley

London

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

AI for Institutions

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The question we seek to address is: can we use AI itself to help us design and build better institutions, which enhance human capabilities for collaborating, governing, and living together?

workshops

Artificial Intelligence

Cooperative AI Foundation

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

Constitutional AI

As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.

OpenAI Partnership with American Journalism Project to support local news

United States of America (the)

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

AI Supply Chain Observatory

The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.

supply chain

StraightLines by Lucid Lens

Here we introduce StraightLines, a proof-of-concept tool developed by AOI’s Lucid Lens team, that automatically rewrites news headlines to reflect the content of articles in a more accurate, less sensational way.

extensions

Talk to the City

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

Recursive Public

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

Polis

Omidyar Responsible AI funding

$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

AI • Objectives • Institute

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

CiviClick (USA)

Washington, DC

CiviClick is changing the way people interact with lawmakers through AI.

European AI & Society Fund Experts

Brussels, Belgium

This list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.

Artificial Intelligence

Ban Cam: кампания против распознавания лиц

Russian Federation (the)

Системы распознавания лиц являются технологиями двойного назначения и могут использоваться для давления на общество. Массовое распознавание лиц должно быть запрещено до тех пор, пока не будет обеспечена полная прозрачность и безопасность его использования для граждан. Кампания мобилизует граждан для защиты своей частной жизни

State of AI Report 2023

London

Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.

reports

Aquaya

San Francisco

Aquaya is a data-driven nonprofit organization that is dedicated to improving safe water and sanitation access in low-resource settings.

Clean water and sanitation

Speakeasy.ai

Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.

CoCounsel

United States of America (the)

The First AI Legal Assistant, Made for Lawyers

commercial

Polimorphic

San Francisco

Polimorphic is the first Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software specifically built for local governments.

Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)

Washington, DC

"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law."

Public Option for AI (PO4AI)

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

cities

Chat2024

United States of America (the)

An AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.

US Election 2024

Cheeri IMM

Hong Kong

By making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.