Civic Tech Field Guide

African AI Observatory

Cape Town, South Africa

Bringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.

CDIAL

Lagos

Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans

Dive

India

Dive is not just an AI assistant; it's your partner in optimizing meetings for maximum efficiency.

commercial

reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good

Germany

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society

Australia

Creating knowledge and strategies for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.

The Civic AI Observatory

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Nesta and Newspeak House announce the Civic AI Observatory (civicai.uk), an initiative to support civic organisations plan and adapt to the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI.

Polis pilots in the Netherlands

Netherlands (the)

De projectpartners zijn de gemeente Amsterdam, gemeente Groningen, Stichting Netwerk Democratie en DiA. In 2020-2021 gaan zij Polis testen en samen met andere gemeenten onderzoeken wat nodig is om op te schalen naar de rest van het land.

Polis

AI4D-Lab

Dodoma

The AI4D multidisciplinary research lab run by two public academic institutions in Tanzania, UDOM & NM-AIST. We set forth an objective to establish a multidisciplinary AI4D lab that fosters capacity development, research and innovation in responsible AI and its application in addressing societal and developmental problems in Africa.

AI Impact Lab

United States of America (the)

At AI Impact Labs, we are dedicated to helping nonprofits and mission-driven companies stay ahead of the curve by providing comprehensive support and training on using generative AI in their workflows.

Hugging Face

The HF Hub is the central place to explore, experiment, collaborate and build technology with Machine Learning.

Humanitarian AI Today

Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.

podcasts

Chatbot Clara

Clara es la Asistencia Virtual del portal Decide Madrid. Utiliza tecnologías como la inteligencia artificial y el procesamiento del lenguaje natural.

AI for Good Coursera course

Learn AI's role in addressing big challenges. Build skills combining human and machine intelligence for positive real-world impact using AI.

Climate action

AI Accountability Fellowships

Washington, DC

The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

AI for Sustainable Development Goals (AI4SDGs) Think Tank

A global collection of AI projects and proposals that impacts UN Sustainable Development Goals, both positively and negatively.

Sustainable Development Goals

Futurepedia

The Largest AI Tools Directory

Albus

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

AI Forensics

Italy

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

Democratic Inputs to AI

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) model

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

Facebook

Adobe Firefly

Adobe's creative generative AI engine

LangChain

Explore data

INTRVL

Audience targeting, Response analysis

Clipbook

Media monitoring

Superimage

Upscale images

11Eleven Labs

Text to speech

Revoldiv

Transcribe Edit video and audio

SpeechifAI

Compose social media posts

CodeWhisperer

Code assistant

Bard

Generate text, code assistant

AutoGPT

Multi-prompt chatbots

Midjourney

Text to image

Fliki

Text to video, Text to speech

MetaGPT

Multi-prompt chat automator

Segment Anything

Edit images

Consensus

Summarize research

Measure Studio

Analyze social content performance

Future A.I. Lab

Large collection of generative AI tools filterable by feature and pricing

ChatGPT

Generate text, Code assistant

Pragma

Knowledgebases

GitHub Copilot

Code assistant

Liveform

Intelligent agents

Unitary

Content moderation

Paradiso

Text to video Text to speech Generate text

Synesthesia

Text to video, translation

D-ID

Text to video

Danes je nov dan

Ljubljana

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

WinWith.Me

WinWith.Me is the Messenger for Politicians - a Facebook Messenger bot-building platform integrated with NationBuilder for campaigns, NGOs and advocacy.