Emerging tech
Emerging tech that could make outsized contributions to existing battles.
Meta VR for Good
Meta's collection of VR for social good stories
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
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 th...
Voatz
Voatz is on a mission to make voting safer and more accessible. All citizens have a right to vote regardless of their circumstance.
Climate Change AI Newsletter
E-newsletter for Climate Change AI
Monday.com
Project Management tool
DIUx xView Detection Challenge
Pentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery
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.
Caravan Studios
We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.
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.
SAFELAB
The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
Jakarta Smart City
Issue reporting, cameras, and sensors to improve government efficiency in Jakarta
News Provenance Project (NPP)
The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.
Outfox AI
Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.
Data Cívica
Más datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.
Climate Change AI
Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.
Smart cities: Digital solutions for a more livable future
a McKinsey report
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.
MoCho: Mobility Choices and Societal Impacts
This tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.
UN Global Pulse Lab Kampala radio analysis with machine learning
We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.
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.
Placemeter
Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.
The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Bitfury land registry in Georgia
The blockchain-based land-titling project is being presented at both Harvard and the United Nations.
HateLab
Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime
Vermont report on blockchain experiments
Secure Messaging? More Like A Secure Mess.
EFF Guide to Messaging
Amicable
Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.
Elements of Artificial Intelligence free online course
A free course sponsored by the Finnish government to demystify AI
Get off my cloud: cyber warfare, international humanitarian law, and the protection of civilians
Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross
ITP Alumni List
The alumni Twitter account for a 2-year graduate program in Tisch, NYU to explore the creative uses of communication technologies
Nonprofit Tech Conference (NTC)
The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.
Gravyty Stewardship
The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.
Waze Connected Citizens
Over a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with...
UNDP Accelerator Labs
We’re building the world’s largest and fastest learning network around development challenges.
Bayes Impact
Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies
WAYS: What Aren't You Seeing?
Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists
Plebiscito Digital
Case study by OECD
Citizen Science: Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy
If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start
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...
DeepMind
We research and build safe AI systems that learn how to solve problems and advance scientific discovery for all
Tomorrow Lab
An Innovation Studio for Hardware Products
NYC Blockchain Center
the City’s first public-private NYC Blockchain Center
Colloqate Design
Exploring the culturally specific language of Design + Justice habitually juxtaposed at a higher frequency than chance
StreetLogic Pro (previously WayCount)
Blockcerts educational credentials
Build apps that issue and verify blockchain-based credentials for academic credentials, professional certifications, workforce development, and civic records.
Mudamos signature collection app
Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.
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...
Aunt Meiyu
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...
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