Emerging tech
Emerging tech that could make outsized contributions to existing battles.
boodleAI
More Donations. Less Work. Right Now.
Open Climate Fix
Uses open-science to mitigate climate change. Open Climate Fix is a new non-profit research and development lab, totally focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.
Follow My Vote
Follow My Vote aims to change the way we vote, becoming the world's first secure open-source online voting software based on blockchain technology.
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...
Hello Lampost
The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.
American Association of Graphic Designers
The professional association for design
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
Hush City
With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.
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...
AR Hoverlay prototypes
At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…
Center for Countering Digital Hate
The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.
PlumeLabs
Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.
CityScope LEGO city
Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions
Textio Tone
Reveal hidden gender bias
Coursera
Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies
Holopolis MR
Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized
WhatsApp: The Widespread Use of WhatsApp in Political Campaigning in the Global South
The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global...
Tea Base
Tea Base is a DIY community art space in the basement of the Chinatown Centre in Toronto.
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...
Gravyty First Draft
Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.
Otter.ai
Artificial intelligence-driven transcription tool
Ignis
The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.
Atlas of Surveillance
The largest-ever repository of information on which law enforcement agencies are using what surveillance technologies. fatalities or facial recognition systems leading to wrongful
Tzina: symphony of longing
This interactive WebVR experience creates a space out of time to explore memory from an intimate and poetic perspective.
Wadhwani AI
Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.
ZenCity
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
Rosie
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.
Automating NYC
We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.
Holopolis HiFi
Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This...
Smart Cities Expo
Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.
Hate speech: measures and counter-measures
Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods
BigUp.AI
Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.
Sorcero
How we learn
One Concern
Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.
US Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent w...
SIM|ED
SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.
Harlem Heat Project
Produced with AdaptNY and ISeeChange, along with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WNYC's resilience reporting is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.
Roo
Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?
Facebook AI mapping for humanitarian aid and development
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...
FutureAir
FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Managing uncertainty in government modelling
Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets
Lambda Solutions
Delivering eLearning success through open source technology, extreme customer service, top-to-bottom integration, and true cloud hosting that reduces costs and increases ROI.
DemocracyEarth
A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.
Insights
Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms
Sensors.AFRICA
We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.
DATAJUSTICE project
This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication
Carbon Conservation and Dappbase experiment with Indonesian forest fires
Villages in the Indonesian province of Aceh that have successfully reduced forest fires are to be rewarded through a clever new scheme that uses blockchain-based smart contracts. Here's how it...
Giveth donations
Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth