This guide explains the website’s features, user interface, and practical usage.
About the radar
The AI Tools Radar is a collaborative project between IRCAI and UNESCO, designed to support three types of organizations:
Public sector institutions
Equipping civil servants with AI tools to enhance public infrastructure and governance.
Media organizations
Empowering media and journalists with AI tools for content production and distribution, fact-checking, audience engagement, and workflow optimization.
Judiciary
Supporting judicial actors with AI tools for legal research, case management, and administrative processes.
To support stakeholders in these three critical sectors, this repository serves as a one-stop resource to help identify and leverage ethical AI tools that improve operations. The repository curates the most useful tools with a focus on accessibility, openness, transparency, and ethical use.
This guide explains the website’s main features and how users can discover AI tools effectively, navigate the platform efficiently and make informed choices regarding AI adoption in their respective sectors.
Categories
Monitoring and Control
These tools help you track public sector activities in real time, flag irregularities, and make sure regulations are followed. Whether it is public spending, environmental compliance, or policy enforcement, their purpose is to ensure things run smoothly and transparently. Think of them as your digital watchdogs, keeping everything in check.
Resource Planning
These tools will optimize the allocation of your entity’s workforce, budgets, and infrastructure. They help you forecast needs and balance resources, ensuring resources are used effectively and sustainably. Essentially, the tools aim to stretch every cent, person, and asset to its full potential.
Data Validation
These tools ensure datasets are accurate and reliable. They help you detect anomalies, fix inconsistencies, and eliminate errors automatically, saving you time and improving data quality. Whether you're working with AI models, analytics, or business reports, data validation tools make sure your data is clean and ready for use.
Document Digitalization
These tools ensure that information found across your documents is stored, retrieved, and managed in the most efficient way for your organization. They will help you convert paper-based records into digital formats and improve their searchability, enabling you to access information from extensive archives with just a few clicks.
Service Provision and Delivery
These tools aim to enhance public service efficiency and accessibility. They help your organization automate public services and enable interactive engagement with citizens. With less paperwork and more personalized support, such tools empower citizens as they are granted access to various services they need - be it a permit application, checking benefits, or receiving updates on the newest events in town.
Newsgathering and Fact-Checking
The tools curated can support your media outlet in retrieving, analyzing and summarizing information from diverse sources, while ensuring accuracy and reliability. They can assist you with gathering data, including open-source intelligence, geospatial data, and public record datasets. They help you identify patterns and trends on social media and recognize AI-generated content. They also facilitate your fact-checking, by identifying misinformation or biases through methods like natural language understanding, reverse-image search, source tracing, and social media tracking.
Production
Tools grouped here can assist your media streamline pre- and post-production processes, from planning to execution. They assist you with data visualization, creating mockups, and generating automated content, like scripts, translations, and transcriptions. The tools can come in handy for technical tasks like remote production or visual effects, or boosting your content generation with AI-powered writing and editing tools.
Distribution and Audience Engagement
The tools listed here help you understand and reach your audiences more effectively, answering questions such as: Who is our most active audience? What content does our audience prefer? How do they consume it? What is their attitude towards a particular topic or piece of content? Beyond content personalization and audience analytics, they also help moderate interactions on your online platforms and offer transparency features for the media audiences that explain why and how which content is recommended to them.
Workflow and Other General Operations
These tools help your media outlet automate routine tasks like data entry, scheduling, content archiving (e.g. through tagging, metadata management, face and voice recognition or watermarking) and placement optimization. The list also includes tools helping media houses prepare for crisis and emergency situations and ensure business continuity in times of disaster.
Legal Research and Information Retrieval
These tools help your legal team quickly find relevant case law, statutes, and precedents, ensuring you get the information you need without the hassle. These tools will help you analyze complex legal documents, allowing you to extract key insights for your work. From drafting arguments to verifying references, these tools make legal research faster and more efficient.
Case Outcome Prediction
These tools harness the power of tech to give your legal team a clearer picture of potential case outcomes, based on data such as past rulings or judicial trends. Such data-backed insights will help tremendously in refining your strategy and help you strengthen your arguments.
Decision Support Systems
These tools’ primary aim is to smoothen your legal office’s daily operations. Tech can step in here to automate scheduling, track case progress or also manage documentation. Examples include AI-powered transcription services that turn spoken words into accurate records - services that will dramatically reduce administrative burdens and grant you more time to focus on practicing law.
Operational Efficiency and Case Management
These tools will help your legal team automate administrative tasks such as scheduling, tracking case progress, and managing documentation, allowing your legal office to run more smoothly, enhance productivity and save time to focus on more important legal work.
Access to Justice and Legal Aid
These tools are primarily aimed at normal citizens in need of legal support. This is where AI-powered virtual assistants step in, bringing legal support within reach for a wider spectrum of people. Such tools provide valuable guidance for self-represented litigants, especially when coupled with features to generate legal documents, and generally, simplify complex legal processes.
Ethical and Fairness Monitoring
These tools serve as a bias and transparency check, helping you uphold fairness and accountability in the legal system. The tools highlight inconsistencies in rulings, detect potential biases, and improve the clarity of judicial decisions. The ultimate aim here is to reinforce trust and integrity in the legal process.
Training and Capacity Building
These (AI-powered) educational resources help you and your team stay ahead of technological advancements in the legal field. Resources include interactive learning experiences, case simulations, and insights into AI’s growing role in law. The resources ensure that you build the expertise needed to navigate the future of legal practice.
Use-Case Scenarios
Based on the AI Tools Radar, here are three simple use-case scenarios illustrating how professionals in the public sector, media, and judiciary can utilize specific AI tools to address typical work-related challenges:
Persona:
Sophia, an emergency response analyst at a national environmental agency.
Challenge:
Sophia is tasked with assessing wildfire impacts across vast forested regions. Manual satellite image review is slow and inconsistent, leading to delays in evaluating damage and coordinating reforestation or relief efforts.
Solution:
The agency implements the Automatic Wildfire Burn Scar Monitoring system, an open-source tool leveraging satellite data and AI to automate the detection of burn scars after wildfires.
Implementation:
- Satellite Image Analysis: The system uses remote sensing imagery to detect and map wildfire burn scars across large areas, significantly faster than manual interpretation.
- Change Detection: AI models identify differences in vegetation cover over time to highlight affected zones, enabling timely action.
- Integration with GIS: Sophia integrates the output into the agency’s GIS platform to overlay with infrastructure and population data, prioritizing areas needing immediate attention.
Outcome:
The agency reduces wildfire assessment time from weeks to days. Resources are allocated more effectively, and reforestation or recovery efforts are launched promptly, minimizing long-term ecological damage and improving public safety outcomes.
Check the tool:
https://radar.ircai.org/en/tools/automatic-wildfire-burn-scar-monitoring/
Persona:
Luca, a data journalist at a digital-first media company.
Challenge:
Luca needs to quickly produce accurate, engaging data visualizations for breaking news stories and long-form features. Traditional tools require manual formatting and design, slowing down the publishing process.
Solution:
Luca adopts ChartGemma, an open-source tool that uses AI to generate data visualizations from natural language prompts.
Implementation:
- Prompt-Based Design: Luca inputs prompts such as “visualize COVID-19 vaccination rates by state over time,” and ChartGemma returns ready-to-publish charts.
- Customizable Output: The tool offers design refinement features so Luca can tweak chart styles to match the outlet’s branding.
- Speed-to-Publish: With quick generation, Luca can include compelling visuals in stories minutes after datasets are finalized.
Outcome:
Luca produces professional-quality charts faster, increasing the newsroom’s ability to deliver data-rich content under tight deadlines. Audience engagement improves as stories are enhanced with clearer, more accessible visuals.
Check the tool:
https://radar.ircai.org/en/tools/chartgemma
Persona:
Anita, a court clerk supporting multiple judges in a regional court system.
Challenge:
Anita manages a heavy caseload involving legal research and documentation. She needs to prepare case briefs and extract relevant legal precedents efficiently, but faces time constraints and lacks access to comprehensive legal tools.
Solution:
Her court adopts AALAP – AI Legal Assistant, an open-source AI tool that automates legal research and document drafting based on case details.
Implementation:
- Document Parsing: AALAP extracts information from legal documents and organizes it into structured summaries for quick reference.
- Legal Precedent Retrieval: The tool automatically searches relevant case law and statutes based on case context and generates draft arguments.
- Workflow Integration: AALAP integrates with the court’s document management system to provide seamless updates and collaboration features.
Outcome:
Anita significantly reduces the time spent on case preparation and research. Judges receive more timely and comprehensive briefs, improving decision-making speed and accuracy while easing the administrative burden on court staff.
Check the tool:
https://radar.ircai.org/en/tools/aalap-ai-legal-assistant/
How to Use the AI Tools Radar Effectively
STEP 1
Explore the AI Tools Repository
The homepage provides a search bar and filter options to refine results by sector, tool type, and application.
STEP 2
Evaluate AI Tools
Each tool comes with a detailed description, covering its functionality, ethical considerations, and sector relevance.
STEP 3
Compare & Select Tools
Users can compare multiple AI tools based on usability, openness, and ethical considerations before selecting the most appropriate one.
STEP 4
Implement & Monitor Usage
Once an AI tool is chosen, organizations can integrate it into their workflow while ensuring ethical compliance and efficiency.
STEP 5
Three sector categories
Select Public Sector, Media, or Judiciary, to quickly find tools relevant to your domain, with use cases, ethics, and integration.
The AI Tools Radar serves as a crucial resource for media professionals, public sector officials, and judicial authorities looking to leverage AI responsibly. By exploring, evaluating, and implementing ethical AI solutions, stakeholders can enhance their efficiency, transparency, and decision-making processes.