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  • This startup is using geo-tagging and blockchain to fight deforestation in Africa

    December 24, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

    The My Roots in Africa Project is an initiative of a group called the Most Influential People of African Descent, which seeks to build connection between Africans in Africa and elsewhere around the world through the act of having trees planted in their honor to combat deforestation, especially in West and East Africa. The project will complement the mission of the Great Green Wall and the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative, both of which also aim to plant large numbers of trees across Africa.

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  • How a Stock Photography Project Is Confronting Fat Bias

    December 17, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    AllGo, a Portland-based organization is an app that aims to combat fat bias in the media by creating a collection of stock photos of exclusively plus-sized models. The app is a completely free resource that aims to offer another perspective in stock photography, which tends to err cis-gendered, able-bodied, and thin. Their photos now have more than 76,000 downloads and over 24 million views, and the creators and models look forward to shooting many more scenes as "an act of resistance."

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  • California works to reverse high maternal mortality rates

    December 16, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    To reduce the rates of maternal mortality in California, medical researchers joined with hospitals to study the causes of the death in order to better understand how to move forward. After identifying interventions that could have saved lives in the majority of cases, the collaborative created toolkits and has since worked with participating hospitals to implement better protocols for dealing with cardiovascular disease, hemorrhage, preeclampsia, and reducing cesarean births.

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  • Meet your Match: J Blood Artificial Intelligence connects blood donors to receivers in the FCT

    December 13, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory

    In order to encourage more community members to donate blood, a non-governmental organization in Nigeria has created a system that connects "willing blood donors and recipients at no cost." Utilizing social media services, the program collects participants information and sends individuals a message when a donation matching their blood type is needed.

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  • Chasing Secrets

    December 01, 2019 |

    Mountain Outlaw |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Scientists are working with houndsmen and houndswomen to track mountain lions in Montana to understand their behavior and to better estimate their population. By forming this partnership and using GPS collars, the team is learning about these animals’ habitat use and where they rest, hunt, and feed. Houndsmen and houndswomen have been crucial in the success of cougar conservation in the state.

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  • America trashes 40% of its food. A Colorado startup is connecting the discards to dinner tables.

    November 26, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    Finding alternatives for uneaten or imperfect food reduces waste. In Denver, multiple initiatives, ranging from the city’s Certifiably Green Denver program to tech startups and nonprofits, are working to tackle the problem of excess and wasted food. The nonprofit organization, We Don’t Waste, redistributes unused food from large venues at food banks and farmers markets. The tech startup, FoodMaven, similarly aims to reroute food from the landfill to consumers.

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  • Where Tech Is Helping People Become Better Neighbors

    November 25, 2019 |

    OZY |

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    Response Location: United States, Napa, California

    From Google's India-focused app Neighbourly to the wellknown Nextdoor app, social media specifically targeted at connecting neighbors is gaining ground. Whether being used to rate neighborhood attractions, encourage borrowing or sharing of resources, report suspicious neighborhood activity or simply to find a way to make connections, these apps are aimed at decreasing social isolation and increasing community interactions.

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  • Round Rock ISD credits threat screening technology with saving student lives

    November 25, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Bloomington, Illinois

    A company called Gaggle works with school districts to screen their software and electronics for messages and text that are cause for concern – including threats against others, sexual content, or mentions of suicide and self-harm. In 2018, they identified over 700 students in danger of self-harm and alerted their biggest client, Texas’ Round Rock Independent School District, to nearly 9,000 potential dangers.

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  • Airbus is making planes lighter with technology we barely understand

    November 20, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: Germany, Hamburg

    An engineering company called Autodesk uses the concept of "generative deisgn" - design facilitated by Artificial Intelligence to create structural renderings unimagined by the human brain - to create lighter and more durable airplanes. Generative design uses the calculations of artificial intelligence software to create thousands of ergonomic designs, based on an input of desired force and shape of the plane part - or other architectural puzzles pieces.

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  • Car-Mounted Ads Take a New Direction: Data Collection

    November 20, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A startup called Firefly uses a comprehensive approach to its sensor-equipped advertising screens by simultaneously showing advertisements on top of Uber and Lyft vehicles and collecting data about the drive and surrounding environment. While the technology is being piloted in five cities, officials try to solve privacy questions and concerns to ensure collected data can help cities to monitor pollution levels or collect sound data - not invade citizens' privacy,

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