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 Black male identity in America.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• fraud detection

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Emerging tech

To compatible with core administrative law principles such as transparency, accountability, legality, and procedural fairness

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A field scan of blockchain for social good projects by the Stanford Graduate School of Business

• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management

• Climate action

• 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

Measure air quality yourself

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

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, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

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

Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI پاکی) provides community-driven air quality data to increase social awareness.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Our software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.

• development

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

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

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.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

Horizon State is about unlocking the power of communities to drive organisations forward.

• The Tech
• Voting and elections
• Emerging tech

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 high-quality, human-powered training data and validation for world leading AI teams.

• Decent work and economic growth

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A map of ethical and rights-based approaches

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Governance for a Post Nation-State world. For everyone, anywhere.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

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 Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond

• racial equity
• trainings

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Wir messen, wo Autos Radfahrer eng überholen.

• cycling

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

• public space

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

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

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Fellowships

The platform for education and learning.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Legal Services Commission of South Australia’s Legal Chat service provides live chat support during working hours.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

At the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass

• books
• labor

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Machine learning for creators

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

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.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Connectivity

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

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data

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

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

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

• apps
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

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.​

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.

• air quality

• Emerging tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Smart Cities and sensors

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

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

• commercial

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

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 the international financial system.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

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 partnership.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

• air quality
• radiation

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech