AI for good (AI4G)

Last updated Sep 21, 2022 Edit Source

• #PAPER AI for social good: unlocking the opportunity for positive impact (Tomasev 2020)

• (Legacy) Overview of the Data Science and AI for good movement, on Medium
• Public lecture slides: Beyond the Hype - how we can make AI work for humanity (Yoshua Bengio)
• Twitter : data4good hashtag
• DS for Good resources
• The good AI
• Report - AI for Good
• How to Use Data for Good to Impact Society
• Challenges and opportunities of Artificial Intelligence for Good.
• La inteligencia artificial al servicio del bien social en América Latina y el Caribe
• A skeptic’s guide to thinking about AI
• Why “data for good” lacks precision
• Five principles for applying data science for social good
• Artificial Intelligence as a Force for Good
• AI for the Common Good?! Pitfalls, challenges, and Ethics Pen-Testing (paper on Arxiv)
• AI for Good – An Overview of Benevolent AI Initiatives (AI by nonprofits and companies in education, environment and health sectors)
• Why AI for social good is a thing (podcast)
• Is the Purpose of Artificial Intelligence to Sell Sugar Water?

• See AI4ES/AI4ES
• A running list of 200+ companies hiring for geospatial & climate-tech roles
• ClimateChangeAI
• Work on Climate
• AI for the planet
• Predictive Analytics World - Climate
  • Videos

• United Nations SDGs
• 17goals.org - learn about the SDGs
• SDG Academy
• SDGs dashboard
• SDG index
• A Guide to SDG Interactions: from Science to Implementation
• The trouble with the UN SDGs 2030 global goals

• Stanford AI for healthcare
• Fighting Tuberculosis with GPUs and Deep Learning
• Hearth disese diagnosis with DL
• Intro to biomedical image analysis with tensorflow/DLTK
• ML in biomed
• Course - Data Science in Stratified Healthcare and Precision Medicine
• Meaningless comparisons lead to false optimism in medical machine learning (paper on Arxiv)

See AI4G/Bootcamps and fellowships

See AI4G/Entrepreneurship

• AI commons
  • Addressing the world’s grandest challenges with Artificial Intelligence.
  • We seek to gather a true ecosystem to democratize access to AI capabilities, to allow anyone, anywhere to benefit from the possibilities that AI can provide.
  • We are working to connect problem owners with the community of solvers, to collectively create solutions with AI. We aim to implement a framework for participation and cooperation to make using and benefiting from AI available to all.
• ITU AI repository
  • Following the success of the first AI for Good Global Summit, ITU has launched a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) repository to identify AI related projects, research initiatives, think-tanks and organizations that can accelerate progress towards the “17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”.
  • The “AI Repository” is open to all and we invite anyone working in the field of AI to contribute to this resource. To submit a project, just fill in the on-line questionnaire below and provide all relevant details of your project. You will also be asked to map your project to the relevant WISIS action lines and UN Sustainable Development Goals. Approved projects will be officially registered in the repository database and your project details will become visible on the website, connecting you with likeminded AI stakeholders, world-wide. It’s that simple!
• The Ethics and Governance of AI
  • Launched in 2017, the Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative is a hybrid research effort and philanthropic fund that seeks to ensure that technologies of automation and machine learning are researched, developed, and deployed in a way which vindicate social values of fairness, human autonomy, and justice. The Initiative is a joint project of the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. It incubates a range of research, prototyping, and advocacy activities within these two anchor institutions and across the broader ecosystem of civil society.
• AI for Good (UK)
  • On a mission to help 100 million people by solving some of the toughest challenges facing humanity
• AI for Good (Microsoft)
  • #TALK AI for Good: Deploying Microsoft AI to help solve society’s greatest challenges
• Google AI for social good
• Partnership for sustainable development data
  • The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data is a global network bringing together governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations dedicated to using the data revolution to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
• Data for democracy
  • https://github.com/Data4Democracy
  • Data for Democracy is a worldwide community of passionate volunteers working together to promote trust and understanding in data and technology.
• Data for good (Canada)
  • Data For Good is a collective of do gooders, who want to use their powers for good, and not evil, to help make our communities better through data. We are a national not for profit organization, with chapters across the county, that help other not for profit, and non-governmental, organizations harness the power of their data to make more informed and better decisions in their quest to make their communities flourish.
• Data for good (France)
  • Les technologies numériques sont incroyablement puissantes et redéfinissent le fonctionnement de notre société. Mais tous les domaines ne se transforment pas à la même vitesse. Très souvent, les acteurs qui œuvrent pour l’intérêt général (citoyens, associations, institutions publiques et entreprises à fort impact social) sont en retard par rapport aux startups et aux géants de la tech. Data for Good existe pour rétablir l’équilibre.
• AI for good (Netherlands)
  • LET’S USE A.I. FOR GOOD
  • Met AI for GOOD brengen we twee werelden bij elkaar: talent op het gebied van kunstmatige intelligentie (artificial intelligence) en niet-commerciële organisaties zoals NGOs en Gemeentes. Samen gaan we op zoek naar oplossingen voor uitdagende data-challenges.
• ESA EO4SD
  • EO4SD – Earth Observation for Sustainable Development – is a new ESA initiative which aims to achieve a step increase in the uptake of satellite-based environmental information in the IFIs regional and global programs. It will follow a systematic, userdriven approach in order to meet longer-term, strategic geospatial information needs in the individual developing countries, as well as international and regional development organizations.
• DSSG Berlin
• Data for good lab
  • Our name-the Data Science for Social Good Lab-reflects our goal: to improve the world through data. A gigantic volume of data is now available in the world, and much can be accomplished if we attain and utilize it in an effective manner. Our aim is to make our research reproducible and open on this website.
• Lacuna fund
  • Putting the benefits of machine learning within reach of data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs worldwide.
  • We mobilize funding for labeled datasets that solve urgent problems in low- and middle-income contexts globally

• AI for good foundation
  • Chartered in 2016, the AI for Good Foundation fosters activities to maximize the benefit of AI technologies for social good through the lens of global sustainable development.
  • Applying data science for a sustainable planet
• Partnership on AI
  • The Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society was established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society.
• Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development
  • The Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development is the scientific institute for sustainability research and teaching of Utrecht University. We contribute to the transition to a sustainable society through scientific excellence in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• The Alan Turing institute
  • The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, with headquarters at the British Library
• AI2 - Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  • AI2 was founded in 2014 with the mission of conducting high-impact AI research and engineering in service of the common good. AI2 is the creation of Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, and is led by Dr. Oren Etzioni, a leading AI researcher.
• Nesta
  • Nesta is a global innovation foundation. We back new ideas to tackle the big challenges of our time, from the pressures of an ageing population to stretched public services and a fast changing jobs market.
• Delta Analytics
  • Delta Analytics has two parallel goals. First, we bridge the skill gap faced by nonprofits by providing free data consulting and data services. Second, we build technical capacity in communities around the world by providing free trainings to help democratize access to machine learning and data tools. We are a non-profit run entirely without a full-time staff; instead, our work is possible because of the volunteer efforts of a rich community of data professionals.
• Data Orchard
  • Data Orchard is a unique research company. Our work combines specialist skills in research, statistics and data with shared passions around making the world a better place socially, economically and environmentally.
• DataKind
  • This is, without hyperbole, a historic time for humanity. Mobile phones, sensors, and new software have created an abundance of data that can be mined, understood, and harnessed to gain new insights about our world and transform almost every sector. The same algorithms and techniques that companies use to boost profits can be leveraged by mission-driven organizations to improve the world, from battling hunger to advocating for child well-being and more. However, most social change organizations don’t have the budget or staff to take full advantage of this data revolution and most data scientists don’t realize just how valuable their skills can be.
  • http://www.datakind.org/chapters/
• AI 4 all
  • AI4ALL is Educating the Next Generation of AI Technologists, Thinkers, and Leaders
• Hack 4 impact
  • Hack4Impact is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization founded at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, with chapters at various colleges across the United States. We collaborate with nonprofits and other socially responsible organizations to develop software that meets important social and humanitarian needs.
• Accel.AI
  • Shaping the Next Generation of AI Engineers & Enthusiasts. Accel.AI was founded in September of 2016, our mission is to lower the barriers to entry in engineering artificial intelligence. We focus on integrating AI and Social Impact through consulting, workshops, and research on ethical AI development and applied AI engineering.

See AI4G/Challenges and competitions

• Data for Humanity: An Open Letter
• Datasets for Social Good Projects
• Medical imaging datasets
• Open Knowledge International
  • How to open data
  • The Global Open Data Index
    • The Global Open Data Index provides the most comprehensive snapshot available of the state of open government data publication
• UN data
  • UNdata is a web-based data service for the global user community. It brings international statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single-entry point. Users can search and download a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. The numerous databases or tables collectively known as “datamarts” contain over 60 million data points and cover a wide range of statistical themes including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labour market, manufacturing, national accounts, population and migration, science and technology, tourism, transport and trade.
• Datahub
• Humanitarian Data Exchange
• UCI ML repository
• EnergyData

• Re-work - AI for good summit
• AI for good global summit (ITU)
• Data4good conference
• NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR - AI for social good workshop
• SoGood 2021- The 6th Workshop on Data Science for Social Good
• Data For Good Exchange - D4GX, an initiative of Bloomberg’s Office of the CTO, brings together data scientists with nonprofits and government agencies to solve some of the world’s biggest problems
• AI for Social Good (CCC)
• Data for good meetups
  • Data for Good - Toronto (Toronto, ON)
  • Data for Good - Calgary (Calgary, AB)
  • Data for Good - Vancouver (Vancouver, BC)
  • Data for Good - Waterloo Region (Waterloo, ON)
  • Data for Good - Ottawa (Ottawa, ON)
  • Data for Good (Paris, France)
  • Data For Good Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
  • Data for Good (San Francisco, CA)
  • Data + the Greater Good (New York, NY)
  • Sheffield Data for Good (Sheffield, United Kingdom)