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Below is a collection of inspiring / empowering / feel-good articles we have stumbled across where people or organisations are using data for good causes. We hope they inspire you to think about how you are/could be utilising your data or at the very least make you hopeful for the future!
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University project wins Anti-Slavery Australia Freedom Award
By University of Sydney Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) group and the Sydney Institute for ...
Development and testing of a machine-learning-based system for early prediction of antimicrobial susceptibility probability
By Tarun Sai Lomte, News Medical In a recent study posted to Research Square*, researchers develop...
AI helps power tsunami early warning system
By E&T editorial staff Cardiff University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence...
Dataset confirms that a vegan diet is dramatically better across a range of environmental measures
By University of Oxford Researchers have linked dietary data from over 55,000 individuals with data ...
Artificial Intelligence May Improve Detection, Prostate Cancer Decision Making
By Hayley Virgil, CancerNetwork Artificial intelligence (AI) may better aid in diagnosing patients...
AI-powered robot starts sorting Melbourne’s recyclables
By Stephen Withers, ComputerWeekly.com Melbourne’s APR Kerbside has been using an AI-powered robot...
Machine learning to the rescue: Preventing cyberbullying in real time
By Manjeevan Seera, Associate Professor @ Monash University Malaysia In today’s digital age, t...
Indigenous Data Governance for the 21st Century
By Professor Marcia Langton, Dr Kristen Smith, Dr Vanessa Russ and Antony Sinni, University of Melbo...
Using analytics and AI to tackle global human trafficking
By Nicky Furlong, Director, Public Sector, Health & Life Sciences at SAS UK. One of the most di...
AI helps create better, simpler hepatitis, COVID-19 tests
By University of Florida Going beyond pregnancy and COVID-19, the world could someday soon come to r...
Rich data to highlight crucial turning points for intervention to close the gap in Aboriginal health
by The University of Western Australia A multi-disciplinary team of researchers will use more than 4...
How ocean data innovation is changing how we see the sea
by Kate Wing, Friends of Ocean Action & David Millar, Americas, Fugro & Aaron Roan, Benioff ...
AI Comes To Bee Rescue
by Lachlan Colquhoun, CDO trends New-generation technology is transforming agricultural practices wo...
AI cameras reveal the survival stories of Australian animals after bushfires
by Josh Taylor, The Guardian New photos of Australian wildlife in bushfire recovery areas, captured ...
Data4Good at the Melbourne Data in Healthcare Conference
By Phoebe Song, Data4Good Volunteer As a long time Data4Good volunteer, I was privileged to hear fro...
7 Incredible Ways AI Is Being Used in Space Exploration
By Sakshi Gupta, Springboard For millennia, mankind has looked up at the night sky and been filled w...
NSW Gender Equality Dashboard
By NSW Government About the dashboard The NSW Gender Equality Dashboard is an interactive too...
5 planet-saving careers using AI + data
By Heather Catchpole, Careers with STEM Meet five real-life role models combining their passion for ...
Tips for NFPs “inherently vulnerable” to cyber security attacks
By Ruby Kraner-Tucci, Pro Bono Infoxchange CEO gives key tips to improve the security of online info...
Despite challenging conditions, thousands of waterbirds breeding throughout NSW wetlands
by UNSW MEDIA With long-term monitoring of breeding events, UNSW researchers also identify trends an...
Dimensions in Testimony using an AI Natural Language Processing algorithm
Today is International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust United Nation...
The Kimberley Database Project
The Kimberley Database Project involves research to build upon knowledge of the first Kimberley Gene...
How AI Is Being Used To Help Blind Students ‘Visualize’ Graphs And Charts
By Gus Alexiou, Forbes Roll back the decades, or for the more youthful, a shorter few years, and ref...
Partnership delivers data-driven insights for Variety
by GovTech Review A partnership between data consultancy company eliiza and not-for-profit servic...
How AI can help us better prepare for climate migration
by Injy Elhabrouk, Coordinator on the AI and ML team, World Economic Forum Climate change is one of ...
Data4Good Project: Helping the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) benefit from the power of Web Analytics
by Ben Atchison, Data4Good Background The Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited (ALS) opened th...
How Artificial Intelligence is Improving Accessibility
By Benjamin Roussey, accessibility.com Artificial intelligence has the power to revolutionize access...
AI trained to detect hard to spot cancerous lesions in colon
By UCL news An artificial intelligence (AI) tool, developed by scientists at UCL, UCLH and UCL-spino...
Data4Good Project: How Data4Good helped Take My Hands with a new data platform
By Sandra Cabrelle The Challenge Take My Hands is a social enterprise based in New Zeala...
Data4Good Project: Using data to help Big Group Hug to Expand their Reach
By Veronica Coyle, Data4Good Lead Big Group Hug works with local communities to respond to the imm...
How digital technology can accelerate food sustainability
by James Anderson & Patrik Sandin, Bain & Company Meeting the food needs of a constantly gro...
Mental wealth initiative – An early warning system for mental health
by Jo-An Occhipinti, Co-Director, Brain and Mind Centre, USYD Building the social fabric and economi...
Deep Learning Effective at Predicting Cerebral Palsy in Infants
By Shania Kennedy, Health IT Analytics Researchers have developed and validated a deep-learning mode...
Citizen Science for Change
By the Great Barrier Reef Foundation Citizen science offers ways for communities to complement scien...
Study paints picture of mental disorders in Australia
by Australian Bureau of Statistics More than two in five (43.7 per cent) Australians aged 16-85 year...
UK researchers develop new database to help conservation efforts
by By Alex Reis, European Scientist Researchers from Newcastle University, UK, created a tool to f...
Singapore develops Asia’s first AI-based mobile app for shark and ray fin identification to combat illegal wildlife trade
by Microsoft, Singapore The Singapore National Parks Board (NParks), Microsoft and Conservation Inte...
UK universities join initiative on data science for sustainability
by Mark Say, Managing Editor A group of UK universities have joined an initiative to use data scienc...
NAIDOC Week: Using data for positive systemic change
By George Newhouse, The Big Smoke NAIDOC Week is a time to celebrate Indigenous culture and communit...
Using AI to Monitor Plastic Density in the Ocean
by Robin de Vries, Geospatial Analyst To solve the plastic pollution problem, we must first unders...
Data4Good Project: Exploring the impact of staff rosters on resident wellbeing
By Lilian Ta & Casey Merrick The Challenge BaptistCare NSW & ACT has been a leading...
Tiny, Solar-Powered Sensors Fly Through the Air Like Dandelion Seeds
by Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine The battery-free devices could be used to gather environm...
Genetic mutations can be benign or cancerous – a new method to differentiate between them could lead to better treatments
by Ryan Layer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder Using big dat...
Our turtle program shows citizen science isn’t just great for data, it makes science feel personal
by Claudia Santori and Ricky Spencer, The Conversation Citizen science is ripe with benefits. Progra...
Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife
by Liz Kimbrough, Mongabay In the world’s largest rainforest, wildlife crawls, hops, flies and pro...
How Singapore uses AI to improve emergency services
By Liew Ming En, GovInsider Have you ever asked Siri or Alexa to ‘Text mum “I love you”’, o...
Bright Lights, Big Pity
By Joshua Sokol, Science.org City lights lure migratory birds, with lethal results, but weather rada...
Chief Data Officers Embrace Data for Good in Troubled Times
By Randy Bean, CDO Magazine At the inaugural summit of the Chief Data Officer Data for Good Global ...
Birdata – birding for conservation
by Birdlife Australia With Australian birds facing so many pressures, it’s crucial that we col...
British Geological Survey launches coastal dataset
By Mark Say, Managing Editor, UKAuthority The British Geological Survey (BGS) has unveiled a package...
Get bird migration information in real time
By Jim Williams, Special to the Star Tribune BirdCast provides live and local bird migration alerts ...
Gender Pay Gap Bot calls out brands tweeting about International Women’s Day while paying women less than men
by James Purtill, Technology Reporter – ABC Science Striking fear into the hearts of CEOs, a l...
Climate data tools win NOAA challenge
By Shourjya Mookerjee, Associate Editor, GCN The four winning teams developed digital tools designe...
Disaster response and preparedness
by Beyond Essential In disaster response, getting information to the right people as quickly as pos...
Data4Good Project: The importance of data collection in protecting Aboriginal Communities
by Ben Atchison, Data4Good Background Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited (ALS) opened their ...
Data4Good Project: Record retention policies reduce environmental impacts and improve legal services offered to Indigenous Australians
by Sonya Sherman, Data4Good Background Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited (ALS) opened their...
How Data Can Impact A Business’ View of Gender Equality
by Robyn Foyster, Women Love Tech Preena Johansen, who leads the CRM team at Telstra Enterprise, tal...
Data and gender equality indicators key to changing workplace culture, review finds
by Melissa Coade, The Mandarin The government has published a review of the Workplace Gender Equalit...
Breaking down bias: how businesses can leverage data to power diversity
by Julie Cooper, CEO Magazine Fintech’s female leaders share how they embrace and leverage data to...
Why Data Is The Key To Driving Sustainability In Retail
by Maria McClay – Brand Contributor, Google Cloud Both corporate values and customer expectati...
Nasa scientists find unlikely tool as rising temperatures bleach corals: a phone app
by Anne Wen in Guam, The Guardian Without the app, mapping reefs usually involves high amounts of da...
Skaidrite Darius
by Australian National University Citation for an honorary degree – Doctor of the University C...
Tupaia for reproductive health in the Pacific
By Beyond Essential Access to reproductive health services is a massive stepping stone to reducing m...
STEM Equity Monitor – Explore Australia’s data on women in STEM
by Australian Government, Department of Industry, Science Energy and Resources The STEM Equity Monit...
Healthy populations – how smart data can build better lives
By DigitalHealth.net Over recent years, attention has focused on how population health management ca...
We studied suicide notes to learn about the language of despair – and we’re training AI chatbots to do the same
by David Ireland & Dana Kai Bradford, CSIRO While the art of conversation in machines is limited...
Data as a force for public good
By The World Bank, Public intent data—data collected with the intent of serving the public good by...
Heathrow Airport trials AI-based screening technology for detecting wildlife trafficking
By Dan Symonds Security screening technology manufacturer Smiths Detection has collaborated with IT ...
Unlocking mental health therapy with AI
By Daniel Farber-Ball, CTECH “We are not here to replace therapists, we are here to empower them w...
193 countries adopt first-ever global agreement on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
by UN News, Global perspective Human stories Artificial intelligence is present in everyday life, fr...
Shaking things up: How your phone is changing the way we detect earthquakes
by Ryne Hager, Android Police How does Android’s new Earthquake Alerts System work? In short: As q...
How AI-powered poverty maps can increase equity in the COVID-19 response
by Laura McGorman, Guanghua Chi, and Han Fang, Brookings In addition to its devastating public hea...
AI projects to tackle racial inequality in UK healthcare
by Andrew Gregory, The Guardian Artificial intelligence is to be used to tackle racial inequalities ...
Data-backed stories that drive change: Reducing food waste, increasing profits
by Ellen Macarthur Foundation In a typical commercial kitchen, up to 20% of all food purchased is th...
Escavox’s smart supply-chain tech cuts food loss, boosts producer profits
by Future Food Systems With $20 billion of food wasted across Australia annually and nearly a $1 tri...
IOM-Microsoft Collaboration Enables Release of Largest Public Dataset to Bolster Fight Against Human Trafficking
by International Organization for Migration (IOM), United Nations The International Organization for...
Creation of a center for waste data collection in Monrovia, Liberia
by Inès Magoum, Afrik 21 Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) took the opportunity of the launch of the...
How monitoring can spur investment in land restoration
This article is published in collaboration with Forbes Around the world, 3.2 billion people are affe...
A machine learning breakthrough uses satellite images to improve lives
by Edward Lempinen, Berkeley News Deep streams of data from Earth-imaging satellites arrive in data...
In Haiti, A New Era of Disaster Response
by Noah Smith, Direct Relief Data collection and information tools are informing disaster response t...
Creating Impact With AI: Doing Well By Doing Good
by Mark Minevich, Global Digital Cognitive Strategist, Digital Visionary, Artificial Intelligence ex...
At its current rate, Australia is on track for 50% renewable electricity in 2025
By Professor Ken Baldwin, Professor Andrew Blaker, and Dr Matthew Stocks , The Conversation. The Aus...
This deeptech startup makes content accessible to millions of people with special learning needs
By Sohini Mitter, yourstory.com Deeptech startup Continual Engine uses AI, ML, computer vision, and...
Using data to turn the fashion industry into a force for good
By Lew Blaustein, GreenBiz Serial social entrepreneur Maxine Bédat is at the center of the relativ...
Investing in AI for Good
By Ben Brockman, Skye Hersh, Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Florian Maganza & Micah Berman A new fra...
Australia is the runaway global leader in building new renewable energy
by Matthew Stocks – Research Fellow, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australi...
Drought Prediction System Somalia – An end-to-end project with real world rainfall data
by Mohamed A. Warsame, Educator, Data Scientist, Applied Machine Learning, MSc certified Economist, ...
How Climate Change and Recent Shipping Disasters Highlight the Urgent Need for Real-Time Ocean Data
by Sofar Ocean The Ever Given, grabbed headlines after becoming stranded in the Suez Canal and block...
Enhancing Safety and Sustainability through a Data-Driven Approach to Gas Detection
by Mark Silvester, ohsonline.com For some companies, data has become a critical part of safety and s...
Online Map & Sea Turtle Database
by the SWOT Team and Duke University’s OBIS-SEAMAP SWOT’s interactive map and database of sea tu...
The Kiwis using AI to fight Covid
by NZ Herald Artificial intelligence model built by Kiwi firm being used globally to predict pandemi...
AI for good: Tech company and nonprofits track river pollution and deliver clean water
by Veronica Combs in Artificial Intelligence, TechRepublic DataRobot offers training and support t...
Manatees to molecules: the H125 Helicopter Observation Platform gathers ocean data
by University of Miami Rosenstiel School, School of Marine and Atmospheric Science via Airbus.com On...
Improving Hurricane Observations with Data from Scalable Sensor Networks
by Isabel Houghton, Ph.D., SoFar Ocean Over the past year, we’ve nearly tripled our coverage of bu...
Applying artificial intelligence for social good
By Michael Chui, Martin Harrysson, James Manyika, Roger Roberts, Rita Chung, Pieter Nel, and Ash...
Smart meters trialled as remote care monitoring system for elderly and disabled people
by Jenni Davidson, Holyrood Smart meters are being trialled as a form of remote monitoring to flag u...
Australia leads the way with world first regeneration certification for producers
by Grain Central Australia is the first country in the world to have a certification scheme for rege...
Innovative agricultural robots land $4.5 million in funding for start-up SwarmFarm
by Pip Courtney, Landline A Queensland couple’s decade-long push to lead the world in the pro...
How AI Is Enabling Smarter, Scalable, Sustainable Water Solutions
By Pip Courtney, ABC News What if artificial intelligence could help solve some of the world’s mo...
Unlocking the Power of Data for Sustainability Systems
Submitted By ISEAL, CSRWire “You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” runs the old business...
Deep-learning artificial-intelligence robot sprayer helps in farming fight to save Great Barrier Reef
By Ollie Wykeham and Myles Houlbrook-Walk, ABC Tropical North Artificial intelligence that target...
Data For Good Fellowship Recipient Wants to Empower Rural Healthcare Providers with AI
by Berkeley School of Information Mahdieh Taher, a Fall 2020 Master of Data Science graduate, has be...
Indian Farmers Can Now Better Predict Weather, Reduce Crop Loss With Help Of AI
by Monit Khanna, India Times Farmers are engulfed with several hardships and challenges to help make...
Banks are getting interested in big data to figure out their climate risk
by Marketplace Tech All this week on Marketplace Tech, we’re talking about climate change and how ...
Big Data Can Save Our Climate and Food Supply
by Sara Menker, CEO of Gro Intelligence Even by startup standards, the mission of Gro Intelligence i...
Four Ways You Didn’t Know Data Could Be Used For Good
by Georgie Brooke, CEO of SMRTR As the world faces increasingly complex problems, right around the w...
Panel Discussion: Harnessing the Power of Data for the Food System
by Elena Seeley, Food Tank During a virtual panel on data protection organized by Food Tank and the ...
Bushfire prediction tech to bolster emergency response efforts
by CSIRO Australia will develop a nationally consistent bushfire modelling and prediction capability...
Where has there been progress toward filling gender data gaps? What gaps remain?
by Kathleen Grantham, Data2x In 2014, Data2X published a foundational mapping of gender data gaps ...
Driving Positive Change in Organizational Diversity
by BoardEx BoardEx is uniquely positioned to deliver unparalleled data quality to create transpare...
The OECD Gender Data Portal
by OECD – Better Policies for Better Lives, The OECD Gender Data Portal includes selected in...
Drones count koalas faster and cheaper than manual spotting methods: study
By technology reporter James Purtill, ABC Science For an animal that’s culturally ubiquitous,...
How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time
by Noah Wilson-Rich, Beekeeper Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich ...
Fire service data: How to employ 2 kinds of data for effective problem-solving
By Linda Willing, FireChief.com Gathering data for inspection and data for learning must be seen as ...
An AI Used Facebook Data to Predict Mental Illness
by GRACE HUCKINS, Wired.com Volunteers let an AI scan their messages from more than a year before th...
Trusted data helps us all ‘understand the changing world’
by UN News, news.un.org Statistics are “fundamental for evidence-based policymaking…[and] drive ...
AI For Good Is Saving The Planet By Accelerating Human Sustainable Development And Transforming Wildlife Conservation
by Mark Minevich, Forbes The world’s biodiversity status is in crisis mode––and Covid-19 has o...
Can Artificial Intelligence Detect Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer?
by Allison Inserro, AJMC Could artificial intelligence (AI) be used to identify patients with early-...
Unlocking AI’s Potential for Social Good
by Mark Purdy, Harvard Business Review Will AI prove to be the great leveler or a new divider? The a...
2020 Aussie Backyard Bird Count results
by Birdlife Australia Australia counts more than 4.6 million birds in 7 days! In its seventh year, t...
Transparency, Sustainability and Certification: The Future of our Food Production and Distribution Systems
by Melissa Baer and Jemma Penelope Consumers and producers know that the food we grow and the agric...
Wild Pollinator Count 8th-15th Nov
Ever wondered what pollinators visit your favourite flowers? Take 10 minutes to watch flowers in you...
How the 50 Words project is using technology to bring language to the world
by Rae Johnston, NITV News The 50 Words project is an interactive online map giving everyone the opp...
Where? Where? Wedgie! Citizen science for endangered eagle populations
By Dr Eve White (White Editing), freelance science editor and writer Monitoring threatened species i...
Deep learning helping make fishing more sustainable
by research @ CSIRO SCOPE program from Network10 aired an episode on our sustainable fishing project...
Visualizing the Human Impact on the Ocean Economy
By Iman Ghosh, Visual Capitalist When you think of economic output, it’s likely the ocean isn’t...
How artificial intelligence can tackle climate change
By Jackie Snow, National Geographic Climate change is the biggest challenge facing the planet. It w...
Why ‘tech for good’ is such a ‘hot topic’ in Greater Manchester – and how it could drive investment
By Isabel Finch, Business Reporter Data ethics and ‘tech for good’ are some of the most ...
Artificial intelligence in medicine: Getting smarter one patient at a time
by Kathleen Raven, Yale University What if doctors had more time to spend addressing their patients...
ANU-Optus Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence
by Australian National University Australia is experiencing unprecedented extreme fire conditions as...
Partnership Reports on Better Data to Improve Lives, Reach SDGs
by International Institute of Sustainable Development The Global Partnership for Sustainable Develop...
How a homemade dashboard helped resume 3,000 necessary surgeries during COVID-19
By Bill Siwicki Elective but necessary surgeries were banned for a time. To properly catch up, Phoe...
Using Ride-hailing Data for Sustainable Transport Systems
By Pulse Lab Jakarta As traffic congestion in modern cities becomes more complex and dynamic, contin...
How Oracle and The World Bee Project are Using AI to Save Bees
By Justin Charness, ORACLE AI Oracle recently announced a partnership with the World Bee Project to ...
Indonesian Super App Creates Safe Zones for Women in Transit Following Recommendations of “After Dark” Research
By Pulse Lab Jakarta Affirming its commitment to safety, Gojek, one of the leading super apps in Ind...
What Matters Most to People in Each Country
By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist If you surveyed 60,000 people in over 180 countries about what...
What is data poverty and how can it impact the charity sector?
By Chloe Green, Charity Digital Small charities are sitting on a gold mine of data that can transfor...
AFL Players Launch 2020 Indigenous Map
By Staff Writers, AFL Players In celebration of National Reconciliation Week, the AFL Players’ Ass...
Air NZ teams up with NASA to collect environmental data on domestic flights
By 1news on TVNZ A day after Air New Zealand announced there would be financial turbulence ahead, la...
How Data Became One of the Most Powerful Tools to Fight an Epidemic
By Steven Johnson, NY Times As public-health experts have known since the 19th century, information ...
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Wildlife Conservation
by Medium.com The African forest elephant population has dropped 65% percent over the past decade ...
New Zealand’s White Island is likely to erupt violently again, but a new alert system could give hours of warning and save lives
by David Dempsey & Shane Cronin, University of Auckland Building an early warning system We used...
Journey begins for Teachers of STEM Initiative participants
by Stronger Smarter First Nations Women have long been the strong backbone that provide support and...
Monitoring Lakes Using Remote Sensing Data
by Mark Altaweel, GIS Lounge Increasingly, lakes, small and large, around the world are under threat...
The use of technology increases transparency of supply chain risks
by FairSupply The use of technology in supply chain analytics will result in a significant increase ...
A Generation To Protect
By UNICEF Monitoring violence, exploitation and abuse of children within the SDG framework E...
How the Internet of Things is Building Smarter Cities
By Katie Jones, Visual Capitalist Urban populations are rising around the world, but cities are s...
‘More Blue’: An Artwork Shows the Sea Changing During Lockdown
By Nina Siegal, The NY Times A data-driven media installation, created to reflect marine conditions...
Visualizing the Global Rise of Sustainable Investing
by Iman Ghosh, Visual Capitalist No matter where you look, climate change is at the centre of every...
How a college student became a planet hunter
by Anne Dattilo, Former student, University of Texas at Austin I didn’t grow up thinking I was...
Scientists turn to drones to cleanup plastic-polluted rivers
by Josh Spires, Drone DJ The Mekong River flows through six countries in Asia, contributing to much...
Saving lives during a global pandemic through medical resource optimization
by Jennifer Griess, SAS Insights Editor Though the pandemic poses unprecedented challenges, analytic...
How Artificial Intelligence, IoT And Big Data Can Save The Bees
by Bernard Marr – Contributor, Enterprise Tech Modern agriculture depends on bees. In fact, ou...
Optimizing well placement to eliminate water poverty
By Kara Roberts, SAS Corporate and Executive Communications Madina Fanette has always had a passion ...
The Statistics at a Glance: The Mental Health of Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex People in Australia.⠀
by National LGBTI Health Alliance Although many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LG...
Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are targets for global development adopted...
Inside a project that used AI to help survivors of modern slavery
By McKinsey & Company For survivors of modern slavery, the end of the nightmare is hardly the en...
Internet of Things in agriculture
By Agriculture Victoria The Internet of Things (IoT) is about making “dumb” things “smart” b...
The Emissions Impact of Coronavirus Lockdowns, As Shown by Satellites
There’s a high chance you’re reading this while practicing social distancing, or while your corn...
How AI could predict sight-threatening eye conditions
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the biggest cause of sight loss in the UK and USA and is t...
Big Data says time’s running out to save the Environment
BY LITO VILISONI WILSON-U. MELBOURNE Big data can help scientists chart not only the degradation of...
Using AI to find where the wild things are
According to the World Wildlife Fund, vertebrate populations have shrunk an average of 60 percent s...
Help us train AI models to detect deforestation.
by Albert Van Jaarsveld CEO International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis The Amazon is dis...
Opportunities for big data in conservation and sustainability
Big data reveals new, stark pictures of the state of our environments. It also reveals ‘bright spo...
AUSTLANG provides an insight into the different indigenous languages used in Australia
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories...
COVID-19 Resources
As with many of the global challenges we work to tackle every day, the Coronavirus Disease-2019, or ...
Indigenous knowledge linked to pollution data
by Dr Scott Chambers Scientists who study the atmosphere often use seasonal averages in their studie...
Machine learning meets African agriculture
by Nilesh Bell-Gorsia – Executive Producer, Google Developer Studio n 2016, a crop-destroying...
Using Data & AI in the Service of Community Health Workers
By Caitlin Augustin, Director of Product, DataKind To drive sector-wide change, DataKind is looking ...
ABS data release to aid post-Covid recovery
by Shahida Sweeney, FST Media The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released new Covid-19 on...
Google AI’s killer (whale) app
The Salish Sea, which extends from British Columbia to Washington State in the U.S., was once home t...
Saving the Bees with Big Data Analytics and AI
Over three-quarters of food production around the world depends on the actions of natural pollinator...
Responsible Use of Digital Data to Combat COVID-19
Large-scale collection of data could help curb the COVID-19 pandemic, but it should not neglect priv...
BeesCount is Crowdsourcing Photos of Bees for World Bee Day 20 May
BeesCount is #crowdsourcing photos of #bees and other #pollinators for our Global Pollinator Map. Do...
10 big data science challenges facing humanitarian organizations
Big data refers to the astonishing amount of information that is created as a by-product of the grow...
The African Drone and Data Academy in Malawi
The African Drone and Data Academy: The African Drone and Data Academy (ADDA) aims to be a centre o...
Harnessing The Power Of Data Visualization To End Gender Inequality And Fuel Global Action
SDG 5: ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS Providing women and girls with equal ...
Human Development Report 2019
Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st Century ...
Keeping people safe with AI-enabled flood forecasting
For 20 years, Google Search has provided people with the information they need, and in times of cri...
The COVID-19 Threat To Generation Equality: Harnessing Data Insights To Protect The Most Vulnerable Girls
2020 will be remembered in the history books as the year of coronavirus. However, before COVID-19 ec...
Hakuna Ma-Data: Identify Wildlife On The Serengeti
Camera traps are an invaluable tool in conservation research, but the sheer amount of data they gene...
5 ways to measure beehive health with hive-streaming data
Imagine walking through the produce section of your local food market and seeing empty shelves that ...
Data Visualization and Cholera: An Unexpected Connection
Cholera was a ruthlessly efficient killer, with both rapid onset and severe symptoms. By the time th...
8 Powerful Examples Of AI For Good
By Bernard Marr – Enterprise Tech Amid the cacophony of concern over artificial intelligence (...
Using Data-Driven Insights to Help Revive a Historic New Orleans Neighborhood
In February 2019, the Center gathered more than 60 Mastercard data scientists in a 36-hour “Datath...
Philippines Flying Labs Joins First Responders to Help Victims Affected By Fire
Philippines Flying Labs joined the medical mission as part of the drone team to map three regions ra...
Hiria Te Rangi: Stubborn has to be the best trait ever
Hiria is one of the speakers at our upcoming Auckland Data4Good Conference, check out her latest int...
C40 Cities Debuts Data Explorer Dashboards Leveraging the Qlik Analytics Platform
Qlik today announced in partnership with C40 Cities the formal launch of multiple data-driven das...
The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers
Using Data Visualisation to show how little progress nations have made toward limiting greenhouse-ga...
Bloomberg’s Data for Good Exchange event gave scientists and researchers a chance to show how they’re using big data to save the environment
This week, data scientists, researchers and company representatives from across the globe came toget...
Drones a Vital Tool in Climate Change Research
Drones are playing a crucial role in vital work to better understand the effects of climate change i...
Using NASA Data to Monitor Drought and Food Insecurity
NASA’s satellite imagery and model forecasts regularly help agricultural and aid agencies to monit...
Using Data for Good: How Data in Marketing Can Save Lives
Data is at the epicenter of marketing today and can be used in various ways, from helping to sell a ...
Here are the grantees of the Google AI Impact Challenge
As part of Google’s AI for Social Good program, we launched the Google AI Impact Challenge, ba...
A new way to use the AI behind deepfakes could improve cancer diagnosis
Generative adversarial networks, the algorithms responsible for deepfakes, have developed a bit of a...
Britain’s HSBC to help modern slaves ‘rebuild lives’ with bank access
LONDON, June 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British retail bank HSBC UK launched a scheme on Mond...
Oceans of data: tracking illegal fishing over 1.4 billion square miles
PIPA, the world’s largest UNESCO World Heritage marine site, had recently transitioned to a comple...
Google’s Environmental Insights (beta) showing insights on Melbourne
Emissions for Melbourne City are estimated for the boundary indicated on the map using Google activi...
Transforming social welfare with analytics
Social welfare accounts for nearly a quarter of New Zealand’s gross domestic product. Tasked with ...
The world is on the move: Exploring migration with network analysis
More than 3.5 percent of the world’s population is on the move, considered international migrants....
Bulk Carrier Completes Fully Carbon Offset Voyage from South Africa to Europe
Global mining company Anglo American has completed what is thought to be the first fully carbon offs...
How AI/ML is helping to eradicate poverty
Outside the US, the definition of poverty is income of $1.50 a day or less per individual. In the Un...
Microsoft challenges Australian students to use AI to solve social and environmental issues
Microsoft Australia and professional learning organisation, Education Changemakers, are calling on t...
Endangered rhinos are now being protected by powerful data analytics
After poaching surged recently, the South African government turned to techniques more often used to...
How AI is helping make the world greener
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, and it’s already changing the shape of many industries and s...
Mapping America’s wicked weather and deadly disasters
The fear of losing everything in a natural disaster sits in the back of our minds no matter where we...
How A.I. Can Help Handle Severe Weather
Maria Uriarte, a professor in the department of ecology, evolution and environmental biology at Colu...
How data collected from mobile phones can help electricity planning
"In sub-Saharan Africa, there are more people with mobile phones than access to electricity, as peop...
Tracking goats and bleach, artificial intelligence helps out in crises
"...when people prepare to leave home, they sell their goats and the market price falls, signalling ...
George Clooney and Microsoft’s TrialWatch hopes to put a spotlight on injustice
"It's a straightforward vision: To make the world a witness to what happens in courtrooms around the...
Turing Data Futures: AI for government policies and social justice
In regards to how a country measures itself against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, "syne...
Data-driven health care
Five stories of how organizations are tackling global health issues with big data analytics...
Study: How Will Tropical Mammals React To Rising Temperatures?
How wildlife will react to climate change is an open question, but one of the first studies to compa...
Nature’s emergency: Where we are in five graphics
The felling of forests, the plundering of seas and soils, and the pollution of air and water are tog...
