Emerging tech
Emerging tech that could make outsized contributions to existing battles.
Canada's Directive on Automated Decision-Making
To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness
Blockchain for Social Impact
A field scan of blockchain for social good projects by the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Innowatts
A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management
Luftdaten
Measure air quality yourself
Seeing AI
A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects
Federated Learning Concept
An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized
Journalism 360
Washington, D.C. – Eleven projects that seek to help develop and expand best practices in immersive storytelling, including narratives, ethics and production, will receive a share of $285,000 as winne...
PakAirQuality
Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.
ML5js
ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser,...
Atlas AI
Our software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.
Aspen Tech Policy Hub Fellowship Program
Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs.
Development Seed Vulnerable Housing pilot
Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.
Sama
Hiring people from the bottom of the pyramid to complete digital work - SamaHub is Samasource’s training data annotation platform used to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. The platform ensures h...
Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR)
Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.
Horizon State
Horizon State is about unlocking the power of communities to drive organisations forward.
MobLab Dispatch
The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.
Self-fabricated Face Shields
People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers
Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program
APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES
Principled Artificial Intelligence
A map of ethical and rights-based approaches
FarmChat Paper
Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India
Sovereign
Governance for a Post Nation-State world. For everyone, anywhere.
The State of Satellites
This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Ear...
Taggespiegel Bike Data Interactiv
Wir messen, wo Autos Radfahrer eng überholen.
Dozorro
Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption
David E. Glover Center for Technology
Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond
Soofa
Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
CIGI builds bridges from knowledge to power by conducting world-leading research and analysis to offer innovative policy solutions for the digital era.
Institute for the Future
50 years of leading the world in strategic futures
edX
The platform for education and learning.
Legal Chat
Legal Services Commission of South Australia’s Legal Chat service provides live chat support during working hours.
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
Emerging Digital Technologies & Citizen Participation
Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies
Media Democracy Fund
At the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.
Transfer Gallery
The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.
Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
RunwayML
Machine learning for creators
BRCK
Access the internet simply and reliably where you are. BRCK is a rugged, self powered, cloud enabled wifi hotspot router with built in fail-overs.
Law Padi
LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.
NetHope
NetHope is a collaboration of leading international NGOs serving tens of millions each year in 180+ countries.
iSeeChange
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
CivicSmart
Innovation has been at the core of our corporate DNA since 1936, and the last several years have seen a wave of innovation that is delivering the promise of Smart Parking to cities of all sizes.
McKinsey report on blockchain in government
It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.
Purple Air
A low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.
The Sentry
The Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of...
OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Brandwatch Consumer Research
Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.
Calgary's noise-sensing network
Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government pa...
Safecast
Sea Level Rise Toolbox
Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels
Change.org India's Messenger Bot
Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai