Civic Tech Field Guide

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.

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

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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."

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.

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Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

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

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.

Legal Robot

548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA

Legal tech startup using Artificial Intelligence to make Legal Documents less painful & improve Access to Justice.

Microsoft AI for Earth

Redmond, WA

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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.

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

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

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Digital Asia Hub

Hong Kong

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

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.

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Curbie

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

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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.

Center 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.

InVID Verification Plugin

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

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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.

Belisar.io

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

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

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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

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.

Anatomy of an AI System

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

Robota

Israel

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

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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RadicalRelay

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

Aunt Meiyu

Taiwan

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

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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.

Factmata

114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PT

Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

Red Flags

Hungary (Magyarország)

The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements

European AI & Society Fund

Rue Royale 941000, Brussels, Belgium

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe. Our long-term vision is to promote an ecosystem of European public interest and civil society organisations working on policy and technology, based on a diversity of actors and a plurality of goals that represents society as a whole.