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Gen-AI for Local Governments

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

444 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USA
2024
local

The Citizen Browser Project

The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how the world’s most powerful institutions use technology to reshape society, today announced the development of The Citizen Browser Project—an initiative designed to measure how disinformation travels across social media platforms over time.

New York City

Project Liberty

Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

New York City
2021

Medill Subscriber Engagement Index

Northwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.

Northwestern University, Campus Drive, Evanston, IL, USA

Sunlight Media Collective

Sunlight Media Collective is an organization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous media makers and activists, including Wabanaki citizens, working to document and present stories affecting Wabanaki people and highlighting Wabanaki perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between environmental issues and Indigenous rights.

Lamoine, ME

New York Times R&D Lab

How emerging technologies are applied to journalism

New York Times Building, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, USA
2005

The Opportunity Project

The Opportunity Project helps teams use federal open data to build solutions to our nation’s toughest challenges.

USA
2017
United States (federal government), methodology

Civic Data Library of Context

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

Washington, DC
2020
framework

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

CREW is a leading ethics watchdog organization that takes relentless legal and investigative actions holding people in power to account.

1400 I Street NW, Ste 450