South Korea has pioneered an innovative way of testing for the novel coronavirus – inspired by the drive-through counters at McDonalds...
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AbleGamers empowers people with disabilities to access video games and fight social isolation. Hate lockdown? Spent the better part...
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Love choose-your-own-adventure books? They’re the inspiration for cellphone games that make financial, sexual, and health education accessible to remote communities....
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Dear explorers, It is with heavy hearts that we inform you that the 3rd edition of Fixing the Future Festival...
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Tough Turban offers a solution to close the gap between religious freedom and safety for Canadian Sikh riders. In...
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Bogotá has a new phone number for men who want to hang up on machismo and prevent domestic violence. ...
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In the Brazilian Amazon, tiny native seeds are saving forests, communities, and the climate. Any gardener will tell you...
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If COVID left you feeling down in the dumps, send in the clowns! It goes without saying that communities...
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If not us, then who? When it comes to keeping trees standing, that’s the question the inhabitants of the world’s...
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Welcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
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A drone company saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda has become a lesson in using autonomous drones as a tool for social...
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People have always found ways to use clothes to make a statement. What do yours say? Birdsong began life...
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Rain might be rare in the Moroccan desert, but there is no shortage of mist. Thanks to North Africa's largest fog...
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A franchise network of 'digital' toilets in Nairobi is helping to stem the spread of COVID-19 among vulnerable urban slum communities....
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Are you ready to speak frankly about gender issues and sexual taboos? Because this virtual art gallery wants you to...
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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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“The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash...
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The spirit of Mahatma Gandhi lives on in western India, brightening the futures of underprivileged children thanks to NGO Manav Sadhna....
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"Whoever you are, wherever you are, you only have to know one thing. You can learn anything." That's the motto...
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We've all heard the expression 'Don't judge a book by its cover'. Yet we’re all guilty of doing it. And you...
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David Price wants us to be curious in today's digitally connected world: to learn from hactivists, bloggers, citizen journalists,...
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Five years have passed since Berlin-based Vincent Zimmer and Markus Kressler launched Kiron Open Higher Education, the first online university...
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“To change the world, we need to change the people who will change it.” Social analyst and world scout guru Eduard...
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Welcome to Groundhog May. In most parts of the world May is a time of joy, when everything seems possible;...
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"It has become crystal clear that food is one of the most valuable things in our lives." Abby Rose was named...
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Today the food systems must adapt quickly. Farmers, growers, food businesses, cafes and restaurants are being forced to simultaneously and...
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Think adults don’t play Minecraft? Think again. Games help solve society's challenges. Minecraft is a lot more than the biggest video game...
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What a week. (Does anyone know what day it is?) This week saw the digital landscape flooded with action: Earth...
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Do you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
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Good news: Kindness has gone viral. OK, things are definitely weird now that we're inside for the foreseeable. But on...
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If ever there was a time to get innovative, it's now. While Tuesday saw World Health Day give respect and support to...
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Like it or not – and the international pharmaceutical industry doesn’t – an Indian drug company is boldly reverse-engineering and...
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"It's time to change the conversation about climate change from polar bears to people.” – Dominique Browning Forget Thunderbirds, these moms...
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People will always love books. While digital media has disrupted other industries, there really is nothing like a physical book...
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If life gives you good lemons, pass them to your neighbour... Globally over one third of all the food we...
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Something wicked this way comes, but then a lab comes along to challenge it... Known to many as the 'Godfather...
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Calling all doctors, nurses, engineers and designers: coronavirus wants you! Ventilators are essential for taking care of people struggling to breathe...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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It’s time to work together. It’s time to think creatively. And it’s time to be useful. That’s why we’re collating...
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Maff Potts is the founder of Camerados – a growing social movement in the UK that has a simple, but powerful approach: "looking out...
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This is the sort of rapid response the world needs right now. On the Monday of 3 February 2020, something...
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“We have to work together to stop this pandemic. All of us have to stay safe and have to use...
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As doctors limit face-to-face appointments to align with social distancing rules to slow the spread of the coronavirus, tools that help...
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“Food is a central part of the Filipino life. For the people of an agricultural country such as the Philippines...
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Hong Kong-born Bonnie Chiu is inviting everyone to step into the worlds of garment workers in Bangladesh, sex workers in...
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"The more parasites you find, the more data you contribute to fighting the disease." MalariaSpot allows gaming time to be...
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Two fashion entrepreneurs are turning the industry inside out by asking difficult questions. Do you know who made your clothes;...
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Meet Cameroon's protector of the oceans using plastic waste to build eco-canoes. The charismatic Ismaël Essome Ebone is the young entrepreneur...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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