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https://about.fb.com/news/2023/09/new-ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses/Active

Meta Smart Glasses

Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with AI integration

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Assistive and Accessible Tech, Cameras, Emerging tech, Hardware, Wearables
commercial, Meta
https://www.bemyeyes.com/be-my-eyes-smartglasses/Active

Be My Eyes on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses

Hands free access to Be My Eyes through Meta AI Glasses.

Åbogade 15, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Assistive and Accessible Tech, Civic features, Hardware, Wearables
blind, Meta
https://digital-access.org/Active

Digital Access (Cameroon)

Digital Access is a non-profit social enterprise that aims to promote digital opportunities for young people.

Cameroon
2016
Digital literacy, Digital rights, Fight disinformation
campaigns, buildings, harassment, research, Access to Information Community of Practice, trainings, workshops, youth, human rights, Gender-Based Violence (GBV), literacy, Meta, private data public good, Global South Alliance, Civic tech communities and platforms, Quality education
https://about.fb.com/news/2025/04/meta-parents-new-technology-enroll-teens-teen-accounts/Active

Meta parental notifications and Adult Classifier

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA
2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Civic features, Digital security and privacy
youth, Meta
https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/leading-the-way-in-governance-innovation-with-community-forums-on-ai/Active

Facebook Community Forums on AI

We partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA
2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bots, Governance of AI, User research
Meta
https://www.oversightboard.com/Active

Meta Oversight Board

Improving how Meta treats people and communities around the world

London
Civic teams at tech companies, Ethical tech and responsible tech
Meta
https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llamaActive

OpenLLaMA

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open source AI
commercial, Meta
https://scale.com/Active

Scale

AI platform with significant defense industry usage, and 49% ownership investment by Meta

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data labeling, Govtech vendors
Meta
https://about.meta.com/community/vr-for-good/Active

Meta VR for Good

Meta's collection of VR for social good stories

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Build something, Civic teams at tech companies, Emerging tech, Emerging Tech report orgs, The People, The Tech, Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
Meta