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  • Anyone Who Needs Help Seeing Has 2 Million Pairs of Eyes Available With This App

    April 17, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    Using the camera of a smartphone, individuals who are blind or visually impaired can receive quick and easy help from volunteers. The Danish company, Be My Eyes uses a smartphone application to connect those who are blind or visually impaired to an international network of sighted volunteers ready to assist. The on-demand access to assistance provides visually impaired individuals with more independence in their daily lives.

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  • Upcycling Guns

    April 16, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: El Salvador

    Giving guns a nonviolent afterlife can also increase economic opportunity for struggling communities. In El Salvador, IM Swedish Development Partner, a nongovernmental organization, is addressing the issue of guns and violence by creating new partnerships and opportunities. Through the Humanium Metal program, confiscated guns are recycled into raw material and then sold to companies that produce finished products like watches, jewelry—and even toys. The funds from the project go back into funding efforts to further reduce violence in El Salvador’s communities.

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  • How Drones and GPS Are Helping Indigenous People in Ecuador Save the Amazon

    April 16, 2019 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    The indigenous Cofan community in Ecuador, battling miners and other seeking to use their ancestral land, have a new tool to fight them: mapping. By working with non-profits who trained locals to use data and GPS technology, the Cofan now map the environmental resources worth protecting. They are using this data to make the case for why the land should stay in their hands.

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  • Six years later: Learning from the deadly West fertilizer plant explosion

    April 16, 2019 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, West, Texas

    Following a deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant, cities in Texas are taking preventative measures. Emergency Management Specialists have updated and are employing software that tracks hazardous material storage in facilities around the state and generates disaster scenarios. The software can be used in real-time by firefighters and other emergency responders on their way to the scene.

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  • Endangered rhinos are now being protected by powerful data analytics

    April 15, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    To fight a recent surge in endangered rhino poaching, the South African government began utilizing data analytics typically used to study consumers to map out poaching networks. Piecing together data from sources as varied as the serial numbers on guns left behind in parks, police data, intelligence data, and social media posts that show relationships between people, the government was able to isolate a European supplier that supplied most of the poachers' guns.

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  • One Way to Combat Climate Change: A Smartphone App That Lets Farmers Control Where Their Cows Graze

    April 15, 2019 |

    Inc. Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    A San Diego startup called Vence has created a device that can help farmers control their livestock’s movements and behavior. The new technology – a collar with accompanying software – buzzes when an animal is somewhere it shouldn’t be and shocks them if they keep going. While the practice of shocking animals isn’t universally approved, doing so can prevent overgrazing and thus improve overall land health.

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  • This company uses AI to flag racist and sexist comments from potential hires

    April 12, 2019 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States

    A company called Fama Technologies has developed a tool for businesses to analyze a potential candidate's public digital footprint for problematic comments or behaviors around sexual harassment, bigotry, and bullying. The company's analysis does not give a yes or no, nor does it provide a score. Rather, it surfaces the examples of bigotry and lets the company decide what to do. Fama also reports a 99.98% accuracy rate with its artificial intelligence-driven tool.

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  • Barcelona's superblocks are a new model for "post-car" urban living

    April 11, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    The implementation of "superblocks," or large areas of urban space dedicated to pedestrian & bike multi-use traffic and the unification of urban and rural living benefits, helped one Spanish city reduce automotive traffic. Now, an urban innovator aims to bring superblocks to Barcelona in an attempt to scale this community-oriented solution.

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  • A smart solution to vision problems

    April 10, 2019 |

    Nature |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    An ophthalmologist has created a smartphone application that allows not just doctors, but also non-specialists such as teachers, to conduct eye tests. The application helps those living in remote areas to access a service they otherwise may not be able to get and also allows for the few ophthalmologists who live in the area to only see the cases that are deemed necessary.

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  • Barcelona wants to build 500 superblocks. Here's what it learned from the first ones.

    April 09, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Calming traffic reduces noise and brings new public spaces to urban neighborhoods. Across Barcelona, Spain, neighborhoods designated as superblocks—where through traffic is prohibited—now serve as shared-use spaces. Existing superblock projects, created through years of collaboration between Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona and the city’s administration, serve as pilot programs for the city’s broader vision to create hundreds of such spaces.

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