Stories
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!
If you come across an interesting article/topic/organisation send it through to us at connect@data4good.com.au and it could be featured on this page or in our next newsletter!
*Words are not all ours, authors are credited in individual articles.
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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 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 ...
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 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, th...
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 Refresh Working Group, experts discussed the ways that policies and community engagement can facilitate the fair use of data in the food system. Moder...
Bushfire prediction tech to bolster emergency response efforts
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 Ser...
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 across five key areas of development: health, education, economic opportunities, political participation, and human security. Since that time, the glo...
Driving Positive Change in Organizational Diversity
By BoardEx BoardEx is uniquely positioned to deliver unparalleled data quality to create transparency on diversity in the market. The leading people intelligence and relationship mapping solution, announces a new layer of insight to their database ...
The OECD Gender Data Portal
By OECD – Better Policies for Better Lives, The OECD Gender Data Portal includes selected indicators shedding light on gender inequalities in education, employment, entrepreneurship, health, development and Governance, showing how far we are ...
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, 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 ar...
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 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...
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 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, ou...
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 they received a psychiatric diagnosis. It was able to flag signs of their conditions. It’s easy to do bad things with Facebook data. From targeti...
Trusted data helps us all ‘understand the changing world’
By UN News, news.un.org Statistics are “fundamental for evidence-based policymaking…[and] drive the transformations that are needed”, in order to ensure no-one is left behind, upheld Secretary-General António Guterres. And the COVID-19 pande...
