Civic Tech Field Guide

AI Intersections Database

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.

Air Quality Improvement and Monitoring

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

AI Elections Initiative

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

AI Democracy Projects

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

AI Accountability Network

Washington, DC

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.

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.

AI for Institutions

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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

AID:Tech

Dublin, Ireland

AID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain 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

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.

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.

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 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 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

AI Forensics

Italy (Italia)

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.

Airesis

Italy (Italia)

The Social Network for E-Democracy

Airtable of public information for transparency purposes

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

Airtable of JournalismAI Case Studies

Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism

Airbnb EV chargers filter

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

Civic features

AI Tools for Local Newsrooms Database

An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media

Air Alliance Houston

Houston

Air Alliance Houston is a non-profit advocacy organization working to reduce the public health impacts from air pollution and advance environmental justice.

air quality

AidAccess

United States of America (the)

Online consult for abortion pills by mail

AidData China Public Diplomacy Dashboard

This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative. This includes metrics for five types of public diplomacy: financial, cultural, elite-to-elite, exchange, and informational. Using this dashboard you can create custom data sets, maps and graphs based on the type of public diplomacy, recipient countries and time periods in which you are specifically interested.

Civic maps

AidData

A collection of open data about development, China, the UN SDGs, and aid effectiveness.

Partnerships for the Goals

Airbnb.org (formerly Disaster Response and Open Homes)

888 Brannan Street, San Francisco, California

Airbnb encourages hosts to donate their shelter in times of need, and is now spinning the program out as a formal non-profit.

AI Ethics: Global Perspectives

GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives

AI and the News Open Challenge

by AI Initiative

AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)

MIT Media Lab

For entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.

AidData Replication Datasets

AidData has assembled a collection of replication datasets associated with scholarly research on aid allocation and aid effectiveness. Whenever possible, there is a link to the computer code that is necessary to replicate the results reported in a particular publication.

AI and the Cognitive Trap

AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

AI Now Institute

New York City, NY, USA

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.

Air Matters

Providing real-time Air Quality Index & Allergy Pollen & Weather Data, as well as Protection Recommendations and Forecast.

AI for Good Foundation

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

AIME

Moffett Field, Clark Road, Mountain View, California, USA

Our platform provides its users with the exact geo location and date of the next dengue outbreak, 3 months in advance - quickly and intuitively.

AI for conflict detection

Analyzes satellite imagery to detect on the ground conflict and/or human rights violations using remote sensing and digital forensics.

human rights

AI Resources

2 rue André Pascal, 75775 Paris CEDEX 16, France

An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government

AI Initiative

Cambridge, MA, USA

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

AI for good prize

58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DS

A £100,000 prize fund to help bring Scotland’s innovative uses of AI for social good to life.

AI Myths

With every genuine advance in the field of ‘artificial intelligence,’ we see a parallel increase in hype, myths, misconceptions and inaccuracies. These misunderstandings contribute to the opacity of AI systems, rendering them magical, inscrutable and inaccessible in the eyes of the public.

AirGrade

We improve the effectiveness of international development efforts by understanding and encouraging what works using rigorous, actionable and engaging evidence.

AI4Cities

Europe

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

AI for Good Summit

Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuity. As a result, we will in the near future see large parts of our lives influenced by AI.

AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory

A project by AlgorithmWatch that maps frameworks that seek to set out principles of how systems for automated decision-making (ADM) can be developed and implemented ethically

Aira

4225 Executive Square, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

Aira connects people who are blind or low vision to a trained professional agent who is dedicated to further enhancing their everyday experience – completely hands-free assistance at the touch of a button.