We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Social impact design firms

An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

The causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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

• apps

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Tea Base is a DIY community art space in the basement of the Chinatown Centre in Toronto.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

• state

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Fellowships

Artificial intelligence-driven transcription tool

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross

• cyberwar
• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.

• The Tech
• Meet the others
• Emerging tech

The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Data visualization

More Donations. Less Work. Right Now.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

An Innovation Studio for Hardware Products

• Emerging tech
• Hardware

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

• books

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data

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

• housing

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data

the City’s first public-private NYC Blockchain Center

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

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 winners ... Read More

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Journalism

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

• Amazon

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The gallery was founded in Brooklyn in 2013 to support artists making computer-based artworks, by installing solo exhibitions of experimental media art.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Blockchain

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Emerging tech

Health Complaints Assist is a chatbot that helps users make a complaint about medical treatment they or someonethey know received.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum

• museums
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

CIGI builds bridges from knowledge to power by conducting world-leading research and analysis to offer innovative policy solutions for the digital era.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Emerging tech

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A premier international conference for researchers on machine learning

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Conferences

Opti prepares today's infrastructure for tomorrow's storms. We provide Continuous Monitoring and Adaptive Control (CMAC) of stormwater systems at watershed scale.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

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 South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Organize campaigns

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.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• COVID

Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

City page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Holopolis bot allows always available participation. It packages vTaiwan as a contact you can add friend with and share your opinions on cases under discussion.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

• city
• commercial
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• In-person meetings
• Smart Cities and sensors

Travel to the right donors, at the right time.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

This weekly digest email helps you more efficiently manage your portfolio so you prioritize the right donors at the right time and raise more

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

NetHope is a collaboration of leading international NGOs serving tens of millions each year in 180+ countries.

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields