Emerging Tech Report Projects
These fifty-three specific projects, initiatives, and programs leveraging emerging technologies for the public interest were identified in the process of creating the Pathways Through the Portal report. These organizations were either discovered during our original research or were directly suggested by one or more of the 24 field leaders we interviewed for the report.
FireSat
A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.
Gyde.community
Nft-gated directory of low cost resources
LandOS
LandOS facilitates project design, due diligence, finance and certification – all key to unlocking supply at scale.
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.
AI4Cities
Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.
BeeMonitor
Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.
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.
Stanford AI Lab (SAIL)
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.
Highrise
An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.
International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.
SAFELAB
The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
Climate Change AI
Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.
Labor Research Action Network Mailing List
The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.
Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)
A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.
Automating Society
The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe
HateLab
Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime
Audit of the Administration of the Internet of Things
In this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we...
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 ef...
Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
SONYC Sounds of New York City
SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.
Open Energy Monitor
Open source monitoring for understanding energy
The Colored Girls Museum VR
A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum
Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies
This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.
Beta Blocks
Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.
Revolutionizing Prosthetics
Revolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-nat...
Samurai Labs
Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.
MIT Open Documentary Lab Docubase
Drawing on MIT’s legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to explor...
NeMO-Net
NeMO-Net is a single player iPad game where players help NASA classify coral reefs by painting 3D and 2D images of coral.
Fast AI
Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting...
Question Bridge: Black Males
Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Blac...
Ask Izzy
Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.
Self-fabricated Face Shields
People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers
iSeeChange
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Safecast
Data for Good group
We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.
Soft robotic
The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Ho...
Conversations with Bina
A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, r...
Operation Serenata de Amor
An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessi...
Tzina: symphony of longing
This interactive WebVR experience creates a space out of time to explore memory from an intimate and poetic perspective.
Data Lanterns
illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods
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 engagem...
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...