TED Blog
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Crisis Text Line is a counseling system via text—a comfortable medium for teens. It allows counselors to ask for backup and collects data for research.
The Washington Diplomat
24 November 2015
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Scope of Response: International
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Journalists can find themselves in unsafe regions without anyone knowing their whereabouts. 'Reporta' is a new app that allows journalists to send alerts, provide information about their location, and send an SOS incase of emergency.
http://blog.ted.com/crisis-text-line-nears-2-million-messages-answered?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Kate Torgovnick May
TED Blog
6 May 2014
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Crisis Text Line is a counseling system via text—a comfortable medium for teens. It allows counselors to ask for backup and collects data for research.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/19/depressed-try-therapy-without-the-therapist?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
19 June 2015
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MoodGYM is an online program targeted to help those suffering from depression for whom it is a challenge to access therapy because of location or the stigma it carries.
https://medium.com/bright/five-cheap-ways-tech-is-transforming-classrooms-3f0530f0c1b0?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Alex Madison
Bright Magazine
6 May 2015
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Low budget schools, across the U.S., are having students use their smartphones as learning tools inside and outside the classroom. At no extra cost they can incorporate technology into the curriculum.
http://www.wnyc.org/story/freelance-nation-greatest-economic-transformation-human-history?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Manoush Zomorodi
WNYC
16 October 2013
Radio / Over 15 Minutes
The 2008 recession’s job losses spurred a development of a Do-It-Yourself economy. With the advent of Uber, Etsy, Airbnb, and others, the marketplace has become full of micro-entrepreneurs who thrive with independent web-assisted businesses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/science/good-news-spreads-faster-on-twitter-and-facebook.html?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
John Tierney
The New York Times
18 March 2013
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Broadcast and printed news offers more coverage on suffering, war, and chaos. However, social media has altered the expectations of news by empowering individuals to spread positive news and emotions that reflects their own identities.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/pregnant-mothers-are-getting-the-message?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
David Bornstein
The New York Times
7 February 2011
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An average of 28,000 children born in the U.S. each year die before their first birthday – and many more face disabilities and serious life-long health problems, often because they are born prematurely or at low birth weights. A free service, text4baby, delivers crucial health advice via text message to pregnant women and new mothers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/upshot/how-to-cut-the-prison-population-see-for-yourself.html?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Erik Eckholm
The New York Times
11 August 2015
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Prisons in the United States are overcrowded with many non-violent offenders and the cost to keep them in jail consumes public budgets. Criminal justice reform has attracted bipartisan interest with diverse proposals to aid adjust the incarceration rate. The Urban Institute has developed an interactive “prison population forecaster,” which helps citizens to assess the impact of different policies.
http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-08-26/aleppo-cell-phones-are-helping-some-desperate-syrians-find-clean-water?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Joyce Hackel
Public Radio International (PRI)
26 August 2015
Radio / Under 5 Minutes
In war zones, people have a difficult time finding clean water and safe areas to inhabit. Social media, smart phones, and technology applications are aiding in people’s survival. In Aleppo, Syria, the International Committee of the Red Cross posted a map on Facebook to show alternative sources of clean drinking water that reached approximately 140,000 people.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/is-there-such-a-thing-as-an-affordable-lawyer/371746?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Michael Zuckerman
The Atlantic
30 May 2014
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In the United States, legal costs have become prohibitively high. Several solutions—such as Rocket Lawyer, which provides counsel via the phone, or such as in the Netherlands, where non-lawyers can provide legal advice—may remedy the situation.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/its-not-just-nice-to-share-its-the-future?utm_source=Solutions+Story+Tracker
Tina Rosenberg
The New York Times
5 June 2013
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New York City’s brand-new Citi Bike program is not just a bike share. It’s the city’s contribution to the new sharing economy, in which people don’t buy things, but buy access to things.
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