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.

By George Newhouse, The Big Smoke
NAIDOC Week is a time to celebrate Indigenous culture and community and ...

by Robin de Vries, Geospatial Analyst
To solve the plastic pollution problem, we must first understand its ...

By Lilian Ta & Casey Merrick
The Challenge
BaptistCare NSW & ACT has been a leading provider ...

by Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine
The battery-free devices could be used to gather environmental data ...

by Ryan Layer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Using big data to find ...

by Claudia Santori and Ricky Spencer, The Conversation
Citizen science is ripe with benefits. Programs can ...

by Liz Kimbrough, Mongabay
In the world’s largest rainforest, wildlife crawls, hops, flies and prowls through ...

By Liew Ming En, GovInsider
Have you ever asked Siri or Alexa to ‘Text mum “I love you”’, only to realise that ...

By Joshua Sokol, Science.org
City lights lure migratory birds, with lethal results, but weather radar and ...

By Randy Bean, CDO Magazine
At the inaugural summit of the Chief Data Officer Data for Good Global Summit held ...

by Birdlife Australia
With Australian birds facing so many pressures, it's crucial that we collect the ...

By Mark Say, Managing Editor, UKAuthority
The British Geological Survey (BGS) has unveiled a package of ...