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Sea Level Rise Toolbox

Interactive mapping tool for visualizing the effects of rising see levels

New York Times R&D Lab

New York Times R&D Lab

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY

How emerging technologies are applied to journalism

Open Climate Fix

Open Climate Fix

240 Bellenden Road London, SE15 4BY United Kingdom

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.

Data for Good group

Data for Good group

Canada 🇨🇦

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. Holland et al. 2014).

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.

Hello Lampost

Hello Lampost

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

Hush City

Hush City

Hardenbergstraße 40, 10623 Berlin, Germany

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, race, gender and social equity.

AR Hoverlay prototypes

AR Hoverlay prototypes

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

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

CityScope LEGO city

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

Coursera

Build skills with courses, certificates, and degrees online from world-class universities and companies

DATAJUSTICE project

DATAJUSTICE project

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK

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

Tea Base

Tea Base

Chinatown Centre, Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada

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

Insights

Insights

24 Raul Wallenberg, Ziv Towers, Tel Aviv

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.

FutureAir

FutureAir

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

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.

Takadu

TaKaDu is a leading provider of Integrated Event Management solutions, enabling water utilities to improve efficiency and make smarter decisions.

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

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.

Giveth donations

Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth

Beijing Air Tracks

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

WITNESS

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

Citizen participation and machine learning for a better democracy

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

Libre AI

Libre AI

Dublin, Ireland

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

Holopolis MR

Holopolis MR

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized

Google AI for Social Good

Google AI for Social Good

Mountain View, CA

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.

Wadhwani AI

Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.

Automating NYC

Automating NYC

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

Holopolis HiFi

Holopolis HiFi

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

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 may be h…

Tzina: symphony of longing

Tzina: symphony of longing

Israel (Jisra'el) 🇮🇱

This interactive WebVR experience creates a space out of time to explore memory from an intimate and poetic perspective.

ZenCity

ZenCity

Tel-Aviv

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

Smart Cities Expo

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

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

Rosie

Rosie

Brazil (Brasil) 🇧🇷

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.

Ignis

Ignis

Lincoln, NE

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.

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 with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

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