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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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Software freedom activism meets environmentalism in Bogotá. Like anybody else, Antonio Vanegas likes to breathe clean air in his...
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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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“Equity is not secondary to survival, as some suggest; it is survival.” — Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilson,...
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The B-Lines project supports the small wild inhabitants of the British landscape by forging new pathways and regenerating an interconnected...
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Little Amal is a little girl on a BIG journey. The giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian girl is journeying...
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Flowers, vegetables, tea plants, fragrant herbs and fruit trees blossom next to the train platforms used daily by hundreds of...
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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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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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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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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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A museum created in Minecraft is craftily encouraging citizens to fight climate change in virtual worlds – to help solve...
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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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Instead of casting their eyes to the starry night sky, this Observatory is looking at one of earth’s most precious...
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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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Take a virtual walk through space and time with a walking audio book that tells a new story of the...
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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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In São Paulo, people are using the Cataki app to swipe right on cleaner streets, protecting the environment, and improving...
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For many of us, a hole in a much-loved jumper sees it drift to the back of the cupboard and...
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Articles, photo essays, videos, exhibitions, reports, events, training and other multimedia material can effectively affect policy-making. That's why AMWAJ is spearheading the move...
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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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Games can transform how we live, work and play. This UN programme proves how people of all backgrounds and ages can show...
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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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Caring for one another is, well, caring, but it can be hard and it can be lonely. You need to...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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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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Songwriting grannies, robot sidekicks, savvy social media training, wild swimming, hip hop-picking and hen road shows; what does it mean...
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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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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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Black holes are found at the centre of most, if not all, galaxies. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the...
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Big in Japan: the global goals can seem too big to make a difference. That’s where the 2030 SDGs Game comes...
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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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A video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
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Brazil’s culture-friendly tax law, a bus trip in India where he met his future wife and a desire to dive...
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As the world's population continues to grow, industry has begun to affect even the most remote of places. As well...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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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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Atlas of the Future has partnered with Red Bull Amaphiko to share each other's stories. The global platform enables, connects and inspires social...
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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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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 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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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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Two Afghan refugees are raising global awareness of a neglected topic: landmines. There are 110 million landmines worldwide – and every day ten...
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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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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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What does the future of business look like? How will developments from big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things to driverless vehicles, 3D printing and synthetic biology...
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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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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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When we think of NASA, we think of sending man to the moon – or Mars – but the space agency is...
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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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Is there anything cooler than the misunderstood king of the sky, the vulture? Yes... A vulture with a GoPro camera...
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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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Global Breakfast Radio aggregates local radio stations from across the world, constantly streaming broadcasts from wherever the sun is rising...
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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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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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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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The digital age loves maps, but not everywhere in the world is represented equally. Digital survey application tool Map Your...
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Africa is growing at a rate never seen before, and everyone wants a piece of the action, but not everyone...
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Hart Island lies to the east of New York City and is the largest tax-funded mass cemetery in the world....
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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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