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Emerging Tech

Explore 277 projects in the Emerging Tech category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

277 projects

Perspective

Perspective is an API that uses machine learning to spot abuse and harassment online.

Google, 8th Avenue, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA
harassment, APIs

Brandwatch Consumer Research

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

48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USA
commercial

Ride Report

From bikes to scooters and everything in between, dockless mobility offers cities a range of new options and challenges. Ride Report is your comprehensive toolset to manage emerging mobility services.

Portland, OR
2019
cycling, apps

Pollution Explorers

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.

Europe
https://ml5js.org/ActiveOpen-source

ML5js

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.

Ford Foundation Tech Fellow

The Ford Foundation did something unique—it hired technologists and embedded them in its grant-making teams. It was part of a foundation-wide effort to better understand the growing influence of data and technology on social justice issues.

Ford Foundation Building, East 43rd Street, New York, NY, USA

OpenAI

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

commercial

DATAJUSTICE project

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

Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, UK
criminal justice

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.

Canada
2013