Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
29 June 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In 1965 a traveling salesman published a series of travel guides with gay or gay-friendly businesses across the U.S. that became survival guides for the LGBTQ community. “Mapping the Gay Guides” has digitized those co...
8 April 2021
Poland
Text
Over 3000 Words
Scientists, NGOs, conservationists, and the government worked together to bring the Polish wolf back from the brink of extinction. Methods like GPS tracking and genetic sampling have helped politicians made decisions ...
16 March 2021
Togo
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Togo distributed money to people in need, including informal sector workers, by identifying them using machine learning. Algorithms search satellite photos for clues of poverty, using measures like building density, a...
22 March 2020
Czech Republic
Text
800-1500 Words
Českou republiku v začátcích pandemie koronaviru sužoval nedostatek zdravotnického materiálu. Chyběly také roušky, které pomáhají omezit přenos nákazy. Švadlena Michaela Moudrá z jihomoravských Hodějic na krizovou sit...
11 March 2021
Lake George, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An experiment in upstate New York showed how town officials could maintain clean and safe roads during the winter season and protect the environment. By using a salt brine before winter storms, they were able to plow ...
25 February 2021
Ghana
Text
1500-3000 Words
A growing number of governments, companies, and nonprofit organizations are working together with new technology and data to identify fishing vessels that are breaking laws and engaging in human rights violations. Usi...
The New Yorker
David Owen
8 February 2021
Rome, Holy See (Vatican City State)
Text
Over 3000 Words
Molly Burhans, a young cartographer and environmentalist, is using GIS technology to map out the Catholic Church’s global property holdings to encourage them to improve the environmental impact on the lands they own. ...
15 January 2021
Algeria
Text
800-1500 Words
Tree mapping helps researchers understand deforestation and climate change, however the technologies used often miss trees that aren’t clustered. Researchers, in collaboration with NASA, used high-resolution satellite...
17 December 2020
Togo
Text
1500-3000 Words
To quickly distribute money to poverty-stricken areas in Togo during the coronavirus pandemic, the country's government turned to mobile cash payments. Working with a nonprofit and UC Berkeley’s Center for Effective G...
24 November 2020
Rwanda
Text
1500-3000 Words
Rwanda’s Akagera National Park, once a conservation failure, has been revitalized with fences, patrols, and new technology to become a successful wildlife park. The government partnered with conservation group African...
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Katia Mullova
26 October 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
SkyTruth, a nonprofit environmental watchdog organization, is using satellite imagery and remote sensing data to identify and monitor the impacts of human industrial activity on the natural environment. Their service ...
22 October 2020
Switzerland
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Contact tracing apps have received a lot of attention since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, but researchers caution they should be used in conjunction with other tactics and not be relied on to help on their ow...
Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT)
Giedrius Vitkauskas
13 October 2020
Lithuania
Text
800-1500 Words
Lithuanian officials are launching a contact-tracing app to better trace the path of coronavirus cases and alert people when they have potentially been exposed. Although there have been delays in the roll-out of the a...
28 September 2020
Durban, South Africa
Text
1500-3000 Words
A cheetah conservation project in South Africa has helped the cat population rebound over the years by securing them in wildlife reserves. The Cheetah Metapopulation Project started in 2011 when there were 217 cheetah...
15 September 2020
Flint, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In the first full month since it was created to take illegal guns off the street, Flint's Special Investigative Unit seized 64 firearms and made dozens of arrests. The unit's predictive policing approach relies on dat...
11 September 2020
Kenya
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
Women in GIS Kenya created a digital tool that helps the government track the number of Covid-19 cases, recoveries, and confirmed deaths, as well as the number of tests administered. The online database combines a sur...
25 June 2020
Kenya
Text
Under 800 Words
A partnership between Facebook and the Ministry of Health in Kenya has helped connect blood banks with blood donors. The process uses artificial intelligence and geo-location data to notify Facebook users who have sig...
10 May 2020
South Korea
Broadcast TV Programs
Under 3 Minutes
South Korea has effectively crushed the curve in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by using extensive tracking and tracing on its citizens. Using a combination of GPS tracking, monitoring CCTV footage, and even ...
24 March 2020
Seoul, South Korea
Broadcast TV Programs
3-5 Minutes
South Korea has reported a reduction of new coronavirus cases thanks in part to rapid government regulations, widespread testing, and increased transparency. While other countries, such as the United States, have made...
24 March 2020
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Facebook collects data from people that choose to share their location with the app, and have started sharing it with various researchers who are trying to track the spread of the novel coronavirus. They share the dat...
16 March 2020
Seoul, South Korea
Text
Under 800 Words
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...
11 March 2020
Texas, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
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...
Wired
Megan Molteni
10 March 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
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...
7 March 2020
Mexico City, Mexico
Text
800-1500 Words
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 m...
2 March 2020
Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
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 t...
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