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  • L'Autre Hangar, la plateforme de solidarité née du confinement qu'il faudrait pérenniser

    June 11, 2020 |

    Médiacités |

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    Response Location: France

    A Nantes, une plateforme appellée l'Autre Hangar se crée au début de la pandémie avec vocation d'acheminer des dons vers des gens dans le besoin. Un lieu de stockage est mis a disposition pour stocker et redistribuer efficacement denrées alimentaires et produits d'hygiène.

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  • What Estonia could teach us about internet voting in a post-pandemic world

    June 11, 2020 |

    VentureBeat |

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    Response Location: Estonia

    Estonia’s i-Voting system is currently used by 46.7% of voters and allows them to vote from home using a government-issued smart card. To vote, residents need a computer with a card reader or can have their encrypted ID linked to their cell phone SIM card. They can track their vote with a QR code and are able to change their choices any time during the 10-day voting period. Estonia is currently the only country to use this method, in part because eroding government trust has prevented the use of centralized systems that track personal information.

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  • Outside the boxes

    June 11, 2020 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Throughout the United States, health care professionals are beginning to prescribe "time outdoors" as a remedy for physical and mental illnesses in place of pharmaceuticals. Due to the stressors caused by Covid-19, this prescription – which is already being used in 32 states – could begin to play an even larger role in "the health care industry’s approach to treatment."

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  • As coronavirus restrictions loosen, congregations grapple with including older adults

    June 11, 2020 |

    Religion News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    When the coronavirus pandemic shut down large gatherings, some churches in the U.S. began offering outdoor services to safely serve their congregations – such as in one retirement community in Florida where members attended services via golf carts. As the weather turns cooler though, churches are finding creative ways to further engage older members such as encouraging them to join Zoom calls for song and worship.

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  • Community groups have consistently failed to improve policing. These advocates are pushing a new way.

    June 11, 2020 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Civilian oversight panels serving as watchdogs and disciplinary enforcers for police departments have a generally poor record of effectiveness, thanks to multiple structural flaws. But examples of successful oversight are multiplying, and thanks to protests of police violence many more cities are working to establish bodies with real power to investigate wrongdoing in specific cases and effect change throughout an agency. One city getting high marks for its program is Denver, where the Office of Independent Monitor succeeded in pressing for new use-of-force rules, which cut incidents by 21% in a year.

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  • Balancing out the doom and gloom: Why we're producing more journalism with a glass-half-full outlook Audio icon

    June 11, 2020 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    Response Location: Australia

    ABC News in Australia is using a solutions-focused, or constructive, approach to reporting on social problems. Focusing in particular on three areas, affordable housing, stormwater, and obesity, the Hobart newsroom is combating widespread hopelessness and mistrust of the media by highlighting what individuals and communities are already doing to address problems. The approach is used around the world and supported by organizations such as Solutions Journalism Network and the Constructive Institute. While change can be slow, these groups offer newsroom training to help shift reporting perspectives.

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  • Designed to Save Lives: Artists Craft Coronavirus Messaging for Underserved Communities

    June 11, 2020 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Artists are designing bold and direct messaging to provide Covid-19 information to underserved populations. The messaging is explicit, often highlighting the role of racism in health disparities seen with the virus, and it is culturally specific to the intended audience. Messaging is offered in multiple languages and the information and images speak directly to the cultural norms of specific groups. Messaging is also delivered in a variety of ways, from fliers disseminated in Black churches to including brochures in bags of free groceries to hanging posters in residential buildings.

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  • The making of a virtual museum

    June 11, 2020 |

    The Bay State Banner |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Boston area museums have launched virtual tours since closing their doors to the public amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Although it is hard to create a museum experience that fits every user’s individual preferences, the 3-D tours have been very popular. The Peabody Essex Museum was already working with Matterport, a virtual tour maker, who had photographed their "Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” exhibition that is available online. The Boston Children’s Museum found their virtual tours to be so popular that they are creating a new product that will allow children to create their own virtual museums.

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  • Hungarian Program Connects Seniors With Stand-in Grandkids

    June 11, 2020 |

    Atlatszo |

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    Response Location: Hungary

    The How Are You Today? program connects elderly Hungarians with young people who are also deprived of social connections during the Covid-19 pandemic. Festival Volunteer Center joined with Hungarian Charity Service of the Order of Malta to connect about 70 pairs for regular, supportive conversations to alleviate loneliness. Volunteers are trained to maintain boundaries to avoid certain emotional risks, however many participants have formed strong bonds and want the program to continue in some form after the pandemic. The organization is working on sustainable funding solutions to enable long-term operations.

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  • Promotoras: un modelo comunitario que tiene garra — y corazón

    June 10, 2020 |

    Generocity |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Promotoras es un programa en Filadelfia (Estados Unidos) que capacita a mujeres latinas para que sean organizadoras y defensoras de la comunidad. El programa tiene como objetivo empoderar a las mujeres para que se conviertan en líderes en sus comunidades y aborden problemas como la gentrificación, la violencia policial y el acceso a la atención médica y la educación. Los organizadores del programa creen que Promotoras brinda una alternativa importante a los modelos tradicionales de organización comunitaria, que pueden no ser tan efectivos para llegar e involucrar a las comunidades latinas.

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