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    Emerging Tech Projects

    These fifty-three specific projects, initiatives, and programs leveraging emerging technologies for the public interest were identified in the process of creating the Pathways Through the Portal report. These organizations were either discovered during our original research or were directly suggested by one or more of the 24 field leaders we interviewed for the report.

    #BlockSidewalk

    What has brought us together over the past year and a half is a wide-ranging and ever-increasing list of concerns about the project, not to mention growing frustration with a public engagement process that is unable to address these concerns effectively, given that it is led by and paid for by the company hoping to win “the big contract.”

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    cat-icon Toronto, ON, Canada

    1000 Cut Journey

    An immersive virtual reality experience of racism that premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.

    africanDRONE

    Africa's largest civic drone network

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    cat-icon 84 Shortmarket St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa

    AI and the Cognitive Trap

    AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

    AI for conflict detection

    Analyzes satellite imagery to detect on the ground conflict and/or human rights violations using remote sensing and digital forensics.

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    AI Now partnership with ACLU

    “We are increasingly aware that AI-related issues impact virtually every civil rights and civil liberties issue that the ACLU works on”

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    cat-icon New York, NY, USA

    AI4Cities

    Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

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    Ask Izzy

    Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

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    cat-icon 33 Elizabeth Street, Richmond VIC, Australia

    Automating Society

    The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

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    BeeMonitor

    Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

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    cat-icon Snowdonia National Park, United Kingdom

    Beta Blocks

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

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    cat-icon Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Black Software

    The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

    Clean Air Myanmar

    Learn about the air we breathe.

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    cat-icon Yangon, Myanmar

    Climate Change AI

    Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.

    CONSUL AI experiment

    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Data Lanterns

    illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

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    cat-icon 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    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.

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    Fast AI

    Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community