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