A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
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Design education is being given a radical redesign by extreme experience designer – and Atlas FutureHero – Nelly Ben Hayoun. The...
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The Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin was a passionate advocate for women’s right to speak out and influence change, and...
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Part of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
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Japan is facing a demographic disaster. As of 2014, 26 per cent of the population is over 65-years-old. Simultaneously the...
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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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Growing up in Brazil, Luciana Oliveira was often exposed to the reality of the hardworking waste picker at an early...
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Submitted by you: The impetus for Stories Behind The Fog is to challenge a single-minded view of homelessness by rendering its...
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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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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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Submitted by you: Communities for Development was created when engineers Iñigo Ruiz Apilánez and Sandra Díaz returned from a stint...
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They say "you can't teach an old dog new tricks", but that is not computed by 84-year-old Annie Middelburg, who...
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Condom use is critical to decreasing the spread of HIV and STIs on a global scale, yet there have been...
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Physical limitations don’t necessarily mean a limited life. All that is needed is a new perspective - and Argentine Pitu Blazquez is...
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We don’t really think too much about the story behind the soap that we wash with, but this is a...
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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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Games are everywhere, from the daily commute and at work, to in the pub over a pint. They forge friendships,...
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Frustrated that black girls are almost never the main character in children's literature, and tired of only reading about "white boys and...
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In 2015 roughly 36 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS, with about 70% of them...
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US election outcomes are always governed by expensive campaigns and big money, but this year the role of money has...
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What if the darkest social and environmental clouds really did turn up silver linings? What if the United Nation’s Sustainable...
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Tania Hadjithomas Mehanna knows that wonderful things happen in the resilient and energetic Lebanon – and that they deserve to be heard of....
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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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Amirah Sackett is break(dancing) stereotypes by using hip-hop to promote religious tolerance. With her female Muslim dance group We're Muslim, Don't Panic,...
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This is your typical story of boy meets girl, boy can't speak French, boy creates some tech. Classic. In 2013, with love in his...
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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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If you’ve ever felt like you can’t face watching the news then you’re not alone. Research shows that people often...
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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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Sencity is a training programme run by the Skyway Foundation in which young deaf and hard-of-hearing people organise sense-stimulating music events...
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In Bangladesh, the textile and garment manufacturing sector is fuelled by young workers, many of whom are extremely poor women...
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Chicken Town have come up with a recipe to reduce obesity in school children by offering an alternative to the...
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Hamburg is home to one of the world’s largest container ports. Also known as Germany's ‘Gateway to the World’, the...
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For the first time ever there is a clinic which focuses specifically on the body and caring for it after...
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Hundreds of students from universities in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are signed-up to Soliya Connect,...
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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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Nairobi's minibus taxis carry over three million people around the city every day. The loud and tightly packed matatu buses...
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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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The world isn’t just losing its biodiversity; human cultures are at risk as well. Across the globe indigenous peoples suffer...
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Trialled in numerous countries since the second world war and supported by many, there has never been a study which...
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The number of homeless people in New York City’s shelters peaked at 60,670 in January 2015 – and this figure only...
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In March 2012, two graphic designers and teachers living in Tel Aviv, Israel declared their love for Iran on Facebook....
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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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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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Good news for those with scratched, lost or damaged vocal cords through surgery or disease; a team at the University...
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In the Southern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Chirezi Foundation is helping to bring about peaceful solutions to...
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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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In the woods of Maine is a US Summer Camp like no other. Travelling thousands of miles from their homes...
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In Sweden up until the 21st century, there was no way to describe female genitalia other than using a clinical...
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The phrase 'dog-eat-dog world' was coined in the 19th century with the birth of modern capitalism. As the power looms...
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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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As part of a family that owned a moving company in New Jersey for more than ninety years, Adam Lowy...
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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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Submitted by you: Guided by a verse from the Quran, 'To save one life is to save all of humanity',...
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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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Buying good-quality local meat can be very expensive and not always accessible for cash-strapped carnivores, locavores (people who like to...
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Self-driving robots look set to shake up the delivery business, worth a massive US$4 billion globally. And it's Skype who came up...
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Amidst the mohawks and psychedelic shop fronts of London’s infamous Camden Town, the legendary Roundhouse boasts a rock’n’roll heritage stretching...
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When a busy commercial block collapsed due to structural failure in the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Dhaka, Bangladesh,...
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Virtual reality has had a lot of press of late for its role as a catalyst for empathy. And one...
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In a one of a kind collaboration with the Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea and the UNHCR, Better Shelter units are...
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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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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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The Human Rights Foundation is a small operation with an annual budget of $3.9 million, yet it has chosen to...
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Unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, are part of daily life for kids in Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen. An estimated 4,000...
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Nigeria’s healthcare system is notoriously expensive, and an unexpected emergency can bankrupt a family. Partnering up with Hygeia, EFInA (an...
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Domestic workers’ pay and conditions are among the worst in the US. A quarter are paid below the minimum wage. Few receive...
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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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Agender definition: Without a gender (nongendered, genderless, agender, neutrois); moving between genders or with a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid); third gender or...
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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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Latin America’s poorest slums and housing estates often lie at the margins of urban economies and social welfare systems as...
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Revolutionary technology rarely looks the part. The steel chimneys and chemical storage silos of Kalundborg on the Danish island of Zealand could be...
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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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In just under three years M-KOPA Solar has provided affordable energy to over 200,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda....
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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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Populations in South East Asia have had to live with haze (poor air quality from pollution) for decades, but intensive...
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Healthcare is underpinned by what’s sometimes defined as the ‘biomedical model’: the system responds when people are sick (with treatment)...
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Honestly, we all know the Elon Musks of the world, and we know the amazing work they’re doing, like the...
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Laki-Laki Peduli, translated as 'men that care', works to reshape common concepts of masculinity in Indonesia. Even in the country’s...
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The debate on how to cope with immigration is heated and complex. Based in Germany, a country which takes more refugees than...
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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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Back in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
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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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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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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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Silicon Valley talks about ‘moonshots’, the huge, ambitious projects that address the world’s problems such as cancer detection nanotechnology or...
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We’re struggling to house people sustainably. Rents have gone crazy high in cities from San Francisco to London, housing is...
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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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One billion people live in around 200,000 slums worldwide, half of them are wet slums located next to the water and are...
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Apple has never been shy about promoting its green credentials but it is their latest project in China that is...
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An online forum with the simple slogan ‘We Exist!’ is providing support for the 2.5 million gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
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IBM's game show-winning Watson is a supercomputer like no other. It can take data from any of the digital sources...
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Many up and coming African developers create innovative software, but they do not know how to commercialise their products. At...
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"It is our responsibility to enable every young person to make to learn and learn to make," says David Sengeh, Global...
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Access to water in Afghanistan is among the lowest in the world and many wells that exist are contaminated with...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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