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Efforts to promote research in non-medical STEM fields. These stories center on efforts to study, promote, and conduct research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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http://tpinsights.com/2020/06/12/black-technologists-create-new-virtual-gathering-spaces-for-support-networks-amid-pandemic?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Jewel Wicker
The Plug
12 June 2020
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Spurred by the trend towards digital conferencing during the Covid19 pandemic, Black technologists created virtual gatherings to support communities who are generally underrepresented in the tech industry. “Quarantine Con” and “In Streaming Color,” were aimed at elevating the voices of people of color in the tech industry. Their success led to other events in different industries such as a virtual gym, a culinary showcase, wealth building, and mental health. While the events are open to everyone, the organizers say that they want to normalize the appearance of Black experts.
https://www.latinousa.org/2020/06/09/prscientistscovid19?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Camille Padilla Dalmau
Edmy Ayala
Latino USA
9 June 2020
Podcast / Over 15 Minutes
In Puerto Rico, scientists, students, and educators from different organizations created a consortium to help develop a way to expand the territory's testing capacity for COVID-19 after the government continuously struggled to obtain test kits and was only conducting 150 tests per day. After developing a molecular test and partnering with a swab manufacturer in Italy, their efforts culminated in the distribution of 3,000 tests per day.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-police-forces-across-canada-expand-ballistics-imaging-efforts-driven?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Marsha McLeod
The Globe and Mail
27 May 2020
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As Canada sees an increase in gun violence, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are increasing their capacity to do ballistic imaging – an analysis that is able to potentially connect multiple crimes. Across the country, individual police agencies are developing their own way of conducting this analysis or working with the RCMP, which has access to an integrated network of crime information, to expedite the process.
https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/african-innovators-rethinking-toilet-save-water-make-money/271581?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Nick Dall
OZY
22 May 2020
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From Cape Town to Nairobi, innovations in waste processing are gaining increasing attention and adoption. Fresh Life toilets turn waste into fertilizer, while Safi Sana turns waste into electricity, giving new life to waste products that are traditionally overlooked. Above all, these innovations provide safe sanitation - Fresh Life toilets are used on a daily basis by at least 130,000 people.
https://religionnews.com/2020/05/20/tarteel-app-muslims-recite-memorize-learn-quran?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Aysha Khan
Religion News Service
20 May 2020
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An AI app is potentially eliminating the need for Quran teachers by offering precise feedback to those who are learning to recite or memorize the holy book of Islam. Tarteel uses machine learning technology to enable speech recognition, allowing it to test users' knowledge of the Quran and to receive feedback on recitation without a teacher. The tool can identify mistakes and has a memorization mode, only revealing words as they are recited. Building such an accurate tool "requires a vast data set to train a deep neural network" so users who opt in are crowdsourcing the data set needed to power Tarteel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/business/cow-methane-climate-change.html?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Adam Satariano
The New York Times
1 May 2020
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A company called Mootral is studying whether changing a cattle’s diet could make the animals belch and flatulate less methane. They created a food supplement out of compounds from garlic, citrus, and other additives, that in early tests, has shown a decrease in a cow’s emission of the greenhouse gas. If they can get investors on board and scale it to different breeds of cows and in different climates, it could help the agricultural and farming industries to combat climate change.
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