Civic Tech Field Guide

Textio Tone

Reveal hidden gender bias

Gender Equality

Gravyty First Draft

Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.

Otter.ai

Artificial intelligence-driven transcription tool

DoNotPay bot

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The World's First Robot Lawyer

Wadhwani AI

Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.

Meditect

Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire)

Meditect offers an innovative mobile solution which combines blockchain and artificial intelligence to allow pharmacists and patients to scan their medicines and thus ensure their authenticity.

Good health and well-being

Tech for public challenges

ZenCity

Tel Aviv, Israel

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

cities

An artificial intelligence bot that analyzes Brazilian congresspeople expenses while they are in office. Rosie can find suspicious spendings and engage citizens in the discussion about these findings.

WorkIt Walmart employee app

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

Hate speech: measures and counter-measures

96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

Automating NYC

New York City

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

One Concern

Menlo Park, California, United States

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

Article One

Washington, DC

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

BigUp.AI

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

Gender Equality

Sorcero

Sorcero – How we learn

Facebook AI mapping for humanitarian aid and development

Palo Alto

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

Facebook

Partnership on AI

The Partnership on AI was established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society.

WattTime

Oakland, California

Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public.

Roo

Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?

Polis

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

Polis

Insights

Washington, DC

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

Managing uncertainty in government modelling

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets

DATAJUSTICE project

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

criminal justice

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

Communicating with the government

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.

Google

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

Microsoft

Machine Learning and the Rule of Law

Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.

research

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.

harassment

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 (T'ai-wan)

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

LINE

Digital Asia Hub

Hong Kong

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

Curbie

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

cities

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.

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.