Tools to build a movement

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

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

• human rights

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford

• Communicating with the government

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Narrative tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

We believe that everyone has a story and can contribute to the news narrative. Tipster is a news sharing platform that is democratizing the news making business by placing the power of the media into the hands of ordinary people whom we call Tipstars. Tipster is basically empowering anyone with a smartphone to be an amateur journalist. Tipster provides a secure channel for ordinary people to upload exclusive news content (images, videos and reports) which is then distributed/sold to content consumers and publishers (probloggers, Media Houses, TV channels etc) depending on the type of content.

• News to action

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.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Satellites

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

Upload a photo into the mosaic to show you are a committed voter. Share and watch it come alive with real images of real voters.

• Voting and elections
• Data visualization
• Story tech

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.

• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case. The objects are all taken from the background of an image with sexually explicit material involving minors. For all images below, every other investigative avenue has already been examined. Therefore we are requesting your assistance in identifying the origin of some of these objects. We are convinced that more eyes will lead to more leads and will ultimately help to save these children.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

COMBINING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POVERTY

• No poverty

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Microsoft AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source robotics simulation platform. From ground vehicles, wheeled robotics, aerial drones, and even static IoT devices, AirSim can capture data for models without costly field operations.

• Microsoft

• Drones

Theorizing the Web is an inter- & non-disciplinary DIY conference on tech & society. #TtW18 is April 27 & 28 at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

We play a unique role, experimenting with injecting conservation messaging into online conversations about the ocean. We do this through “attention campaigns.”

• Life below water

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Choisissez vos commerces et construisez un quartier à votre image!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Pentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Factcheck.me tracks bot activity, amplified images, and viral links.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

NeMO-Net is a single player iPad game where players help NASA classify coral reefs by painting 3D and 2D images of coral.

• Life below water
• coral

• Games and gamification
• Emerging Tech Projects
• Emerging Tech report

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

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

Colab notebooks allow you to combine executable code and rich text in a single document, along with images, HTML, LaTeX and more.

• Google

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield

• civic features
• Facebook

• Graveyard
• Petitions
• Civic teams at tech companies

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes