Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
Deutsche Welle (DW)
Ihab Zidan
20 June 2021
Egypt
Text
800-1500 Words
The Egyptian Facebook group Qawem (Arabic for resist) helps victims of sextortion by turning threats around to target the attacker. Sextortion, in which threatened disclosure of a person's nude or other embarrassing p...
13 June 2021
United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
The people who produce child pornography give police invaluable evidence, if it can be decoded, when they film themselves sexually abusing children. A Scottish forensic anthropologist and anatomist has helped both in ...
11 June 2021
Nairobi, Kenya
Video
5-15 Minutes
To make internet connectivity accessible and affordable across Africa, Dr. Harold Omondi developed “internet from the moon,” a technology that uses satellite dishes to communicate with transponders placed in the moon ...
22 May 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The first DNA database in unsolved rape cases was created at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center nearly 50 years ago by a forensic pathologist who was appalled by the callous treatment of rape victims and the impunit...
Happinewss
Ella Westlake
13 May 2021
Stockholm, Sweden
Text
1500-3000 Words
Urban Oasis, a vertical farm in Sweden uses innovative technology to grow crops in shelf-like structures that aims to maximize output and be more sustainable in its agricultural practices. Instead of soil, it uses nut...
Roar News
Helena Kudiabor
12 May 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To reduce long wait times and exposure to health concerns amid the latest global pandemic, some coffee shops are experimenting with robot baristas. The robot barrista at Café X, in San Francisco, can make about 120 cu...
12 May 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Internet Archive is a digital library of around 544 billion archived web pages, most of which are found using a bot that crawls the web and saves snapshots. However, a self-described loose collective of volunteer ...
7 May 2021
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Text
Under 800 Words
A community effort spearheaded by a local church and a software company is helping senior citizens in Markham, Ontario secure Covid vaccine appointments. Ahead of the vaccine rollout, a reverend and a parishioner bega...
BBC
Nick Holland
4 May 2021
Papua New Guinea
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
After remote Indigenous communities in Papau New Guinea set aside some of their land as conservation areas, they wanted to know if it was working. With the help from scientists and The Nature Conservancy, they were ab...
4 May 2021
Jinja City, Uganda
Text
800-1500 Words
Solar-powered street lights have replaced the shoddy conventional lighting in Jinja City, Uganda. Solar-powered panels and batteries power lighting that is not only cheaper but is also more reliable and has resulted i...
3 May 2021
Kentland, Indiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Genetic genealogy's use in criminal cases has gone mainstream. As the cases of three murder victims in Indiana illustrate, the science of DNA evidence combined with genealogical research and detective work is rapidly ...
28 April 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Social media influencers are using “pre-bunking” -- the practice of exposing people to misinformation and offering expert-backed explanations of why it isn’t true before they see the misinformation in the wild – as a ...
28 April 2021
India
Text
1500-3000 Words
In India, citizen-led small-scale digital efforts are helping to connect Covid-19 patients with the resources, supplies, and medical equipment they need to survive. The citizen groups are largely using online platform...
27 April 2021
Nanyuki, Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
More and more park rangers, judges, prosecutors, and wildlife investigators are working together to stop poaching in Kenya. Through training and a new app that allows all parties to track wild animals in a protected c...
26 April 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Families with students in prekindergarten in Philadelphia now are eligible for PHLConnectED, a program that provides students with free internet access during remote learning. The program has already reached out to ov...
23 April 2021
Houston, Texas, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
One of the first crime-lab scandals gave birth to a better way of ensuring the integrity and accuracy of forensic evidence. The Houston Forensic Science Center operates independently of law enforcement agencies, with ...
22 April 2021
Cape Town, South Africa
Text
800-1500 Words
Watergate Estate is working on two issues in South Africa: affordable housing and renewable energy. The housing development is installing solar panels for its residents that are being bought by people all over the wor...
22 April 2021
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
After lithium-ion batteries from iPhones, laptops, or electric cars are used up, the Ontario-based company LiCycle recycles parts of them to be reused in new batteries or in other products. While the recycling process...
22 April 2021
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Text
800-1500 Words
In India, where women face high rates of harassment by men but rarely report abuse because they view the police as hostile, the Telangana State Police encouraged more reporting by turning WhatsApp into an anti-harassm...
20 April 2021
Hem, France
Text
800-1500 Words
Inspired by the Dutch concept of “Energiesprong,” or “energy jump,” a developer in France retrofitted a group of townhouses for social housing to be more environmentally friendly. They installed polyurethane facades t...
The Daily Yonder
John Miller
19 April 2021
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Ledenews.com is one of the more than 80 online-only news sites started in 2019 to fill the void in news deserts. The site covers sports, politics, traffic, and local stories about local people in the Wheeling, WV area...
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Jonathan Levine
19 April 2021
South Sudan
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
As a way to help train frontline health workers in developing countries about childbirth practices and child health, a nurse practitioner launched a video production project to offer short instructional films. In the ...
17 April 2021
Maine, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Running Tide Technologies, a shellfish hatchery in Maine, is betting on kelp forests as a way to store carbon deep in the ocean and sell that carbon to corporations looking to combat climate change and offset their ow...
15 April 2021
Kwale, Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
As a way to combat unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to prevent further deforestation in Kenya, local rangers are using smartphones, satellite feeds, and global mapping to monitor their forests. The projec...
14 April 2021
Vanuatu
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
As the small island nation of Vanuatu emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of a tropical cyclone, entrepreneur Votausi Lucyann Mackenzie-Reur argues that they need to focus on local ingredients to be a...
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