Becoming carbon neutral is not just for the big organisations, but it can be a challenge to find the resources...
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CitieS-Health is making citizen science people-centred from research questions to solutions. Several citizen science projects have evaluated environmental parameters...
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“An unpolluted night sky that allows the enjoyment of the contemplation of the firmament should be considered an inalienable right...
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The best built-in odour sensor? It’s sitting on your face. Did you know that around the world, odour pollution...
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Ice is vital for Alaskan ecosystems and communities. Plus, it’s fun to play with! Fresh Eyes on Ice uses citizen...
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Communities around the world have been experiencing the effects of changes in their environment for decades. LICCI is putting them...
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Go online, catch a blood stall, and speed up Alzheimer’s research — by years! Stall Catchers is the game that...
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“We know we’re in the middle of an extinction crisis but we still know remarkably little about which species live...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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The combination of laser and ozone technologies allows Jeanologia to finish a pair of jeans using just a glass of...
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Fancy fabricating your own beehive in 30 minutes? A buzzy giant hive of makers and beekeepers have come together in...
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Need a distraction? Lots of people are turning to the world’s leading citizen science platform to help scientists without leaving...
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Tickr’s app allows users to invest as little as £5 in companies expanding access to education, clean water, renewable energy...
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Wearables, medical devices, AI and data come together in this lightweight exoskeleton for robot rehab. And it's been tested by former...
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If a tree falls in the forest, and there's nobody around to hear, does it make a sound? It does when the trees have electronic...
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Just one step can be an insurmountable obstacle for wheelchair users. And this is where Wheelmap comes into play: the crowdsourcing...
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In the least mechanised place on earth, tractors and farming machinery are expensive. This agritech app connects smallholder farmers to tractor owners...
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The Internet is broken. But we can fix it with an alternative collection of open, fair and safe alternatives. For...
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Water is getting the digital treatment. Within a network of innovative control towers in Spain, people are coming together with...
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Is there water on Mars? This technology was designed to tell us, but now it’s being used to see leaks...
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Come rain or shine, knowing weather patterns is pure gold when it comes to food security. But in the tropics, you...
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Home to endangered marine turtles that come to its shores to lay their eggs, Ghana has a rich fauna and...
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Let us transport you to central Chile to a small farm tucked way in the coastal hills. This is a story...
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A group of activists led by a 'Water Warrior' are on a mission to improve the lives of Detroiters by...
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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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The Save The Chicken app is providing a digital solution to the very analogue chicken mortalities happening in Africa. Early...
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This collective online platform can make a difference for rare disease patients and their families. Rare diseases amount to...
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Most farmers in advanced economies take advantage of a wealth of agricultural information services to support farm management and increase...
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Caring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
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Trail cameras are an important tool in wildlife research and conservation – and you get some surprising results. What's...
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Clearly not pretending to be human, Intuition Robotics' ElliQ is an AI-powered companion that is half tablet, half robot and...
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Butterflies don’t just look beautiful, they have an unusual trait. They are nature's way of showing us the effects of...
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“You can spend your time on Facebook and Instagram, or spend half of that time helping researchers realise their objectives!”...
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Do you know your yellow-browed warbler from your bluethroat? Then Ornitho.cat wants you. The online citizen science project is dedicated...
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Today, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
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If somebody has a heart attack in a film, there's nearly always a crowd of people nearby – and screaming...
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Decades of over-exploitation have left our ocean and fish populations a shadow of their former selves. That’s why, after securing...
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Who doesn't want to discover new planets? With Exoplanet Explorers, citizen scientists search for exoplanets, the planets around other stars. One...
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Plankton are a critically important food source. No plankton = No life in the ocean. Plankton also play an important...
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With Snapshot Serengeti everyone can observe animals in their natural habitat, without disturbing them – so you feel like you’re seeing...
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Black holes are found at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the...
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"I really do believe in the community. I really do believe in the genius in every person. And that's not...
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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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There’s a growing unease about the use of behavioural advertising: technologies that track and learn about our online behaviour in...
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Ground control to major impact! dashboard.earth wants you to feel good while helping the planet – and be rewarded while...
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In Pakistan, an award-winning startup is redefining special education with augmented reality games that are cheap, efficient, measurable and accessible for everyone....
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On paper it looks weird: A three day congress dedicated to technology and innovation taking place in the heart of...
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“The ice caps are melting, Leonard. In the future, swimming won’t be optional!” So says the inept genius Sheldon...
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Open Motors (formerly OSVehicle) is an example of a distributed 21st century design. Their purpose is to democratise mobility – by enabling...
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Who would have thought at the start of 2017 that Bitcoin would increase 20-fold? Since it became the first decentralised digital currency released...
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Scott Nelson wants to fully embed a a resource-based economy inside existing market capitalism, just by issuing credit to people...
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What if you want to assess a proposed development's contribution to the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainability? A new...
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So, how do you get power to the people who need it most, to those who can’t afford it? ...
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Submitted by you: The Estonians have a long history of trying new things in digital, and blockchain is no exception....
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Submitted by you: Ownership is a core area that most people ignore or don't think about when it comes to...
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Rivers move. Fires occur. Cities grow. Forests shrink. Icecaps melt. Ecosystems change. That's why Robbie Schingler founded Planet, with the mission...
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Trying to find the perfect love match is never easy. We might trawl through Tinder or OKCupid, looking for the...
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We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
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If Antoni Gaudí were around today he would surely relish the advances 3D printing technologies are bringing to architecture, art...
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If there’s one political topic that has dominated our collective social consciousness in the last decade, it’s terrorism. Terrorism and...
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Providing pure creativity in a digital world, Barcelona-based creative symposium OFFF is more than a design festival with unbridled Fs. It's a...
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Over the last decade Fab Lab Barcelona has helped people around the world to locally conceptualise, design, develop and fabricate, with a...
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Insects often get a bad press. In reality, however, they can provide essential functions in agriculture and other areas. The...
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Do you know where your handbag or tuna comes from? Every product tells a story. And knowing more about where products...
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Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail set up Aware Girls when she was just 16-years-old to empower women and girls in her country....
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Robin Chase, founder of Zipcar once said: “Everything that can become a platform will become a platform.” The Curve couldn’t agree more, quoting...
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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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During Christmas 2003, computer scientist Frédéric Mazzella couldn’t get from Paris to his family home a few hours away. He...
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Mobile Internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of knowledge for rural populations in developing countries. But not every one...
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To shine a spotlight on the lack of data, on 14 September 2016, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon,...
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For decades, the high prices of computers has prevented most of the world’s population from being able to buy PCs...
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Submitted by you: When someone you love is sick, you want them to have the best possible caregiver... You. Healthcast empowers...
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Every day, sites like Netflix, Spotify and Flipboard tap into the power of data to provide recommendations that make life ‘easier’,...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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In light of this century’s gains in life expectancy, the issue of supporting older people so that they can remain in...
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Plants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
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Mexico City’s masked superhero Peatónito (Little Pedestrian) has a mission - zero deaths on the roads. The safe streets crusader is delivering...
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Barcelona's former factory neighborhood Poblenou, meaning 'new town', is witnessing a new type of industry in the neighbourhood’s streets. A...
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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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Submitted by you: Rising global connectivity shows that mobile internet is rapidly becoming a primary source of information and knowledge...
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It is both amazing and disconcerting to know that we are surrounded by an invisible architecture of radio waves and...
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Data in the digital age data has transformed the way we live our lives, from artificial intelligence and drones, to...
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By now you’ve probably had some exposure to the driverless technology phenomenon – even if it’s that taxi in Total...
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It bothered designer and engineer Ross Atkin that while handheld devices, such as smartphones, tablets and PDAs, now give us highly customised...
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There are approximately 130 unregulated matatu lines in Nairobi. Cheap, convenient, popular – and often decorated with disco balls and...
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With Google as an indispensable tool omnipresent in everyday life, it’s easy to feel like we have all the information...
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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The more our lives have been transposed to the internet, the larger our personal data trails have become. Bank details,...
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As humans we channel a staggering 70% of freshwater consumption into agriculture and industry, but urbanisation is making it harder to...
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Living under the threat of hurricanes and tsunamis, Hawaii has numerous outdoor warning sirens in place. And it’s of utmost...
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Many of Melbourne’s 70,000 trees are approaching the end of their useful life due to a combination of age and...
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Cultural identity and what it means to view oneself as self and the other as other, is so intricately complex...
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You may have heard of the Internet of Things - the idea that all physical objects communicate data over the...
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The self-published DIY ‘zine’ has always been the domain of those in search of alternatives. Its DIY nature eschews the...
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Brainwaves have always fascinated me. As a musician, the idea of understanding the brain though frequency is compelling. You can...
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Created BY 3D computational artist, geneticist and ‘data-friendly Elvis’ Peter Crnokrak and visionary director GMUNK, HALO is a data visualisation software that represents...
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In 2005, Stockholm-based philanthropist Hans Rosling predicted that differentiating between hard data and opinion would be one of the digital...
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The Global Tagging of Pelagic Predators (GTOPP) program is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration among biologists, engineers and computer scientists, which...
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