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  • The Amazon's solar-powered river bus

    April 20, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Kapawi

    The isolated Achuar peoples in Kapawi village in Ecuador live in an area without roads, and they'd like to keep it that way. As a way of proving they can function without them while still allowing for public transport, the village has implemented a solar powered canoe that can transport villagers up a network of interconnected navigable rivers.

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  • Is this the future of Seattle transit? A look at Vancouver, B.C. — a city that figured it out years ago

    April 19, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    The mantra of public transit officials in Vancouver is: “The best transportation plan is a good land-use plan.” Their ideology, clearly manifested in public transit development over the last several decades, has led to construction that is intentionally centered around transit stops. By making public transit stops convenient along with providing a world-class transit system, it is easy for residents to use it. Seattle, with similar demographics and severe traffic challenges, can learn from this model.

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  • Real-world Minecraft mod: How the popular video game is transforming parks and other public spaces

    April 19, 2018 |

    GeekWire |

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    Response Location: Serbia, Pristina

    Popular video game Minecraft, an easy-to-use game where users construct the world around them, has been used by UN-Habitat in 40 projects across 35 cities in 25 countries to design public spaces. The accessible platform allows laypeople to quickly mockup what they would want in a public park or space, which is valuable community input for architects and urban designers.

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  • Get To Work

    April 19, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Transportation is one of the biggest barriers to employment in Philadelphia. Despite having a public transit system, many people do not own cars, so they cannot access higher-paying jobs in the suburbs. The Commuter Options program, funded by a Department of Transportation grant and supported by the Philadelphia Unemployment Project, provides a way for workers to carpool to jobs that share a similar schedule and location. Though it is only one part of the solution, the program is helping 65 people access jobs outside of the city.

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  • A High-Paying Job? Go to App Boot Camp.

    April 17, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Coding positions can provide a stable job with a middle class salary, however—due to a lack of opportunities, the cost of education, and the culture at tech companies—women and especially women of color have a difficult time obtaining these jobs. A series of initiatives are addressing this issue, providing comprehensive training, job placement, and affordable ways to pay for education.

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  • This app maker says his work saved thousands during Hurricane Harvey — and he's not done yet

    April 17, 2018 |

    The Verge |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    After Hurricane Harvey, it was hard to locate people amidst the swaths of water covering the city. Two Houstonians developed a “web-based geolocation service” that used data from social media to locate and visualize people’s location. Since then, they’ve updated their service and it’s been used for other catastrophes, helping rescue as many as 37,000 people.

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  • Problem-Solving Prizes

    April 16, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Cash prizes push people to solve all sorts of problems. Advancements in aircraft and spacecraft in particular have came out of public innovation challenges.

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  • AI tool helps law enforcement find victims of human trafficking

    April 16, 2018 |

    Futurism |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    When Emily Kennedy was a teenager traveling in Eastern Europe she saw street kids she learned were trafficked by the Russian mob and decided to tackle human trafficking in her college work. The company she launched, Marinus Analytics, created a software application that has been used by authorities to rescue hundreds of victims in the U.S. and Canada and is expanding. The data it gathers has also debunked assumptions about how and where trafficking takes place.

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  • World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden

    April 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Stockholm, Sweden has opened the world's first stretch of road that will recharge car's batteries as people drive. Similar to a tram system, but half the cost, motorists install a moveable arm to the undercarriage of their vehicles which connects to the electrified strip running down the road. Talks have already begun about expanding the pilot in order to move towards achieving independence from fossil fuels by 2030.

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  • Here's how The New York Times is trying to preserve millions of old pages the way they were originally published

    April 12, 2018 |

    Nieman Lab |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York

    Project Kondo has identified and archived over 7 million New York Times web pages that contain news content in outdated and unsupported formats. Readers can report broken links, but the number of sites to review is too big to do by hand, so the team created an automated tool called ‘munger’ to identify JavaScript with unsupported code and clean it up into HTML that can be shared widely. In order to preserve the content exactly how it was originally published, the websites are moved to a different domain, archive.nytimes.com, where readers are notified that they are reading an archived article.

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