by Data4Good | Feb 23, 2021 |
by Sara Menker, CEO of Gro Intelligence Even by startup standards, the mission of Gro Intelligence is lofty. Sara Menker, the company’s founder and CEO, says its goal is to provide tools to help confront “two of the biggest challenges we face as humanity: food...
by Data4Good | Feb 22, 2021 |
by Georgie Brooke, CEO of SMRTR As the world faces increasingly complex problems, right around the world, governments, companies and NGOs are turning to data as a way to find solutions. And while some data-driven social solutions might be obvious, the advancement of...
by Data4Good | Feb 12, 2021 |
by CSIRO Australia will develop a nationally consistent bushfire modelling and prediction capability under an agreement announced recently between CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, and AFAC, the National Council for Fire and Emergency Services. The...
by Data4Good | Jan 20, 2021 |
By technology reporter James Purtill, ABC Science For an animal that’s culturally ubiquitous, koalas are remarkably hard to spot in the wild. As a result, it’s difficult for scientists and conservationists to know just how many koalas are out there. In New...
by Data4Good | Jan 11, 2021 |
by Noah Wilson-Rich, Beekeeper Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving? To find out, he recruited citizen scientists across the US to set up beehives in their backyards,...
by Data4Good | Jan 7, 2021 |
By Linda Willing, FireChief.com Gathering data for inspection and data for learning must be seen as a positive tool rather than as a way of potentially punishing someone When I was an officer at the fire station nearest the University of Colorado, our station had more...
