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  • Commitment, transparency pay off as South Korea limits COVID-19 spread

    March 16, 2020 |

    EURACTIV |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    Weeks before the coronavirus outbreak was declared to be a pandemic, Seoul, and other parts of South Korea set into motion a combination of "prevention and mitigation programs" that are now being touted as lessons for other countries struggling to contain the virus. Using technological advancements such as a national mobile phone alert system and mobile phone applications along with increased transparency around data collected, new reports of cases have slowed allowing the country to prepare for a potential surge later on.

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  • Map the Vote app finds unregistered voters in cities and helps get them to the polls

    March 11, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Register2Vote (R2V) identified unregistered voters in Texas and built a platform for them to fill out the form online, which R2V printed and mailed to them with a stamped envelope addressed to their county’s registrar’s office. 112,000 of the 156,000 new voters they registered voted in 2018. R2V later created Map the Vote, a nationwide crowdsourced app that maps where unregistered voters live. It also provides tools to help organizations, or even neighbors, register new voters, including scripts that people can use to start a conversation about registering to vote and respond to common voting concerns.

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  • Pour It On: How Dutch Cities Are Soaking up Rain and Reducing Flooding

    March 10, 2020 |

    The Times-Picayune |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Rotterdam

    A green roof initiative is one of the projects Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands, is working on to capture and store more rainwater; a solution that might work in Louisiana. With heavier rains and more intense storms due to climate change in both places, the amount of rainfall coming down can overwhelm drainage systems. Although the price tag can be high to build these green roofs, Rotterdam boasts 100 acres of green roofs that have increased the city’s water storage capacity by about 1.6 million gallons.

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  • A Disease Tracker Backed by Gates and Zuckerberg Tackles Covid-19 in Cambodia

    March 10, 2020 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Identifying the metagenomic sequencing for new outbreaks of viruses can help to better assess how the virus is spreading, which in turn helps health officials figure out how to slow down the contagion. In the midst of a coronavirus outbreak, a tool that was first used to during the SARS outbreak is now being used to track Covid-19 in under-resourced places such as Cambodia.

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  • 'Visible women': Feminist mappers bridge data gap in urban design

    March 07, 2020 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    The underrepresentation of women in technology and computer science has led to the creation of Geochicas, a group of women who recruit and train female, open source mappers across the world. Open source mapping is a male-dominated pursuit but one that informs urban design and public policy. When mapping a city, women tend to add services that are overlooked by men, such as childcare services, hospitals, and women's health clinics. Diversifying the volunteers who do this work to include more women leads to mapping that is more inclusive and minimizes crowdsourced-data bias against women.

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  • What Would a World Without Prisons Look Like?

    March 06, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Deanna Van Buren and her nonprofit firm Designing Justice/Designing Spaces use architecture to advance social justice and criminal-justice-reform ideas, designing workplaces, meeting places, and homes nationwide founded on the notion of "what a world without prisons could look like." The firm's projects, often planned with input from the people directly affected, have included privacy-enhancing temporary living units for people recently released from prison, a "peacemaking" space in Syracuse, N.Y., and two of the first restorative-justice meeting places for crime victims and those who harmed them.

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  • How the Knox County Land Bank is affecting local communities

    March 02, 2020 |

    Knox Pages |

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    Response Location: United States, Mount Vernon, Ohio

    The Knox County Land Reutilization Corporation, also known as the Knox County land bank, takes abandoned properties that are vacant and tax delinquent, revitalizes them, and then sells them to new owners. This eliminates blight around the county and encourages economic development. The Land Bank President estimates that for every $1 the land bank spends, they generate $33.82 in redevelopment. Operating in earnest since the fall of 2018, the land bank has brought $3.5 million in reinvestment into the county. They are now looking to acquire even more buildings and financially support individual homeowners.

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  • Madhya Pradesh's ‘fluoride warriors' unleash citizen science to empower community

    March 02, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

    As part of a social work graduate program through Alirajpur Post Graduate College, a group of students are using “citizen science” to share their research that water with elevated levels of fluoride can be dangerous to drink. This has especially been an opportunity for female students to develop public speaking skills while connecting with women whose role it is to manage water for their households and encourage them to use wells with the appropriate fluoride levels, based on their data and research.

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  • Meet the Detectives Solving Crimes Against Trees

    February 28, 2020 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany, Hamburg

    The Center of Competence on the Origin of Timber in Germany is using innovative methods to help determine timber products’ origins in order to stop illegal wood trading. Scientists can identify wood’s anatomical features and compare them with microscopic samples in the center’s digital database to determine where a piece of wood originally grew. While the process can sometimes take a while, the center has had some successes in detecting illegal logging from some manufacturers.

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  • The Great Tulsa Remote Worker Experiment

    February 28, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    In an attempt to spur the economy and reverse years of a declining population, Tulsa, Oklahoma is paying remote workers $10,000 to live in the city for a year. The carefully-selected 100 members of this project, known as Tulsa Remote, are treated to subsidized housing, several perks, and a curated experience designed to create a sense of community and belonging in hopes that they choose to remain in Tulsa. The first phase resulted in 25 percent of participants purchasing homes, a step toward the long-term economic and social boost the experiment was designed for.

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