The Trevor Project

SOLUTION

USA

By The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ youth, will receive a $1.5M USD grant to incorporate machine learning and natural language processing into its crisis services, which save young LGBTQ lives by supporting them via phone, chat, and text. With Google’s help, The Trevor Project will be able to assess suicide risk level of youth in crisis more quickly, allowing counselors to better tailor their support and to provide relevant resources and consistent quality of care.

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IBM Watson AI XPRIZE

COMPETITION

World

By XPRIZE Foundation

The $5M IBM Watson AI XPRIZE challenges teams to demonstrate how humans can work with AI to tackle global challenges.

IBM Social Good Fellowship

FELLOWSHIP

World

By IBM

The IBM Social Good Fellowship is an opportunity for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to develop their skills and develop data science solutions that benefit humanity. Mentored by leading IBM Research scientists and engineers at the T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY (north of New York City), fellows use data mining, machine learning, analytics, operations research, statistics, and mobile computing methods to complete projects with social impact.

Gaining a better understanding of Earth’s melting glaciers

SOLUTION

UK

With Joseph Cook et al.

Joseph Cook, polar scientist from the United Kingdom, hopes to develop tools that use AI and drone and satellite technology to explore the changing cryosphere.

Fire-detecting tool

SOLUTION

USA

By Descartes Labs

With Phil Fraher et al.

The Fire-detecting tool from Descartes Labs samples images from government weather satellites every two minutes, comparing the images for differences. If there is any difference in the thermal signals in a region, it could potentially indicate the presence of a wildfire.

Detecting land cover changes in Uganda

SOLUTION

Ouganda

With Ketty Adoch et al.

Ketty Adoch, geographical information systems specialist from Uganda, is working on a project that will detect, quantify, and monitor changes in land cover in the area surrounding Lake Albert and Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda’s largest and oldest national park.

Detecting and mapping small dams and reservoirs

SOLUTION

USA

By Natural Capital Project at Stanford

With Gretchen Daily et al.

Gretchen Daily, cofounder and faculty director of the Natural Capital Project at Stanford, will develop a way of detecting dams and reservoirs around the world to measure their impact.

DeepTech4Good Acceleration Programme

ACCELERATOR

Europe

By Horizon 2020

DeepTech4Good is an Acceleration Programme, financed under the Horizon 2020 framework, committed to help Deep Tech startups accelerate their development and scale up at European level. 4 application domains: Health & Well-being, Industry 4.0, Smart Mobility, Smart City.

Capturing and sharing data on lion populations

SOLUTION

USA

By Wildlife Guardians

With Stephanie Dolrenry et al.

Stephanie Dolrenry, director of Wildlife Guardians, will help support the Lion Identification Network of Collaborators, an AI-assisted database for lion identification and interorganizational research.

AWS Imagine Grant Program

GRANT

USA

By Amazon Web Services

A public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using technology to solve the world's most pressing challenges

AlgoTransparency

PROJECT

France

By AlgoTransparency

With Guillaume Chaslot et al.

We want to see which information the YouTube algorithm is showing to people. This algorithms is responsible for more than 700,000,000 hours of watch time every day, and it is not fully understood, even by the people who build it.

AI technology helps students who are deaf learn

SOLUTION

USA

By Microsoft

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AI in the service of climate

FUNDING

Sweden

By Vinnova

The offer is aimed at those who want to carry out the project that, with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), contributes to Sweden having no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2045 or to adapt society to the climate changes we cannot prevent. The call for proposal is a joint effort by Vinnova and Formas.

AI For Social Good

RESEARCH

World

By Intel

We impact the world in two ways: Support social good organizations with AI technologies and expertise to accelerate their positive work in the world. Research and support efforts to ensure AI is more transparent, less biased, and more accessible to all.

AI for Health

SOLUTION

USA

By PATH

AI for Health, a new $40 million, five-year program to empower researchers and organizations with AI to improve the health of people and communities around the world. The program is underpinned with a strong foundation of privacy, security and ethics, and was developed in collaboration with leading health experts who are driving important medical initiatives. AI for Health is the fifth Microsoft AI for Good program, a $165 million initiative to empower researchers, nonprofits and organizations with advanced technologies to help unlock solutions to the biggest challenges facing society today.

AI for good program

SOLUTION

USA

By Gramener AI Labs

With Ganes Kesari et al.

At Gramener, we take pride in our work on ‘AI for Social Good.’ We work with state-of-the-art techniques in areas such as computer vision, geo satellite analytics, natural language processing and data storytelling. We apply these techniques to solve problems in environmental conservation, to protect biodiversity and to tackle humanitarian challenges.

AI for Good accelerator programme

ACCELERATOR

Israel

By Microsoft

The AI for Good 2020 accelerator program helps purpose-driven ventures in Israel advance their AI solutions to create positive social transformation. Microsoft for Startups Israel and TechForGood will be selecting 12 organizations committed to a social mission to join this fourteen-weeks program.

AI City Challenge

COMPETITION

World

By NVIDIA

The NVIDIA AI City Challenge has been created to accelerate intelligent video analysis that helps make cities smarter and safer.

50 Reefs

SOLUTION

USA

By The Ocean Agency

With Richard Vevers et al.

50 Reefs, an initiative run by The Ocean Agency, combines advanced imaging technology with AI to gather and analyze images of shallow-water reefs at scale, and within seconds.

Shapash

SOLUTION

France

By MAIF

Shapash is a Python library which aims to make machine learning interpretable and understandable by everyone. It provides several types of visualization that display explicit labels that everyone can understand.