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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.

Snowdonia National Park, United Kingdom
Sustainable cities and communities

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

HateLab

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

Cardiff
racial equity, harassment

Hate speech: measures and counter-measures

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, UK
racial equity, harassment, hate speech

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

MIT Open Documentary Lab Docubase

Drawing on MIT’s legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to explore new documentary forms with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive, and immersive storytelling.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
https://serenata.ai/ActiveOpen-source

Operation Serenata de Amor

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

Brazil
2016

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.

Open Source COVID19 Medical Supplies

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

COVID-19, health, Good health and well-being