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Emerging Tech Report Projects

Explore 43 projects in the Emerging Tech Report Projects category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

43 projects

Tzina: symphony of longing

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

Israel
2017

Data Lanterns

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

MIT Media Lab
Clean water and sanitation

Samurai Labs

Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence

harassment

Doxbox Trustbot

The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.

Revolutionizing Prosthetics

Revolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-natural motor and sensory capability to upper-extremity amputee patients.

11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, Maryland, USA

The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.

suicide prevention, LGBTQI

SONYC Sounds of New York City

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

Brooklyn, NY
city, noise, Sustainable cities and communities

Highrise

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

Canada

Automating Society

The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

Europe