Google announced support for six AI for Social Good projects in 2020. These projects were collaborations between academic and NGO pairs. Pairs jointly developed project ideas at the workshop, hosted in partnership by Google Research, Google’s University Relations program, and Google.org. Pairs were encouraged to submit research proposals which were then evaluated by Google experts and selected for funding.
These were the six projects supported with funding and computational resources, along with support from Google researchers, engineers and program managers.
Improving health information for high HIV/AIDS risk communities: Applying AI to identify influencers among marginalized communities at high risk of HIV/AIDS contraction, with the goal of better disseminating health information, providing services, and ultimately reducing the rate of HIV contraction.
Academic researchers: Team from IIIT Delhi led by Tavpritesh Sethi, team from Singapore Management University led by Pradeep Varakantham
Nonprofit: Swasti
Predicting risks for expectant mothers: Using AI to predict the risk of expectant mothers dropping out of healthcare programs, to improve targeted interventions and increase positive healthcare outcomes for mothers and their babies.
Academic researchers: Team from IIT Madras led by Balaraman Ravindran
Nonprofit: ARMMAN
Improving consistency of healthcare information input: Applying AI to help ensure consistency in how healthcare information is captured and monitored, to enable more targeted and actionable healthcare interventions.
Academic researchers: Team from Singapore Management University led by Arunesh Sinha
Nonprofit: Khushibaby
Predicting human-wildlife conflict: Using AI to predict human-wildlife conflict in the state of Maharashtra to help inform data-driven policy making.
Academic researchers: Team from Singapore Management University led by Pradeep Varakantham
Nonprofit: Wildlife Conservation Trust.
Improving dam and barrage water release: Using AI to inform dam and barrage water releases, to help build early warning systems that minimize risk of disasters.
Academic researchers: Team of Nanyang Technology University led by Bo An
Nonprofit: Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology & The Environment
Supporting publishing of underserved Indian language content: Building open-source input tools for underserved Indian languages to accelerate publishing of openly licensed content.
Academic researchers: Team from AI4Bharat and IIT Madras led by Mitesh Khapra and Pratyush Kumar
Nonprofit: Storyweaver