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!
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Healthy populations – how smart data can build better lives
By DigitalHealth.net Over recent years, attention has focused on how population health management can help improve the lives of citizens. With that in mind, Tracey Cotterill, managing director for population health intelligence at Civica, explores h...
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, there are improvements with every iteration. As machines are developed to navigate complex conversations, there will be technical and ethical challe...
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 informing the design, execution, monitoring, and evaluation of public programs and policies—are a prerequisite for many government functions. Such ...
Heathrow Airport trials AI-based screening technology for detecting wildlife trafficking
By Dan Symonds Security screening technology manufacturer Smiths Detection has collaborated with IT giant Microsoft and London Heathrow Airport to develop a first of its kind multispecies AI model designed to uncover illegally trafficked wildlife con...
Unlocking mental health therapy with AI
By Daniel Farber-Ball, CTECH “We are not here to replace therapists, we are here to empower them with human-centered AI. We are here to give them superpowers,” said Alon Rabinovich, co-founder and CTO of Eleos Health, an Israeli startup that is l...
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, from booking flights and applying for loans to steering driverless cars. It is also used in specialized fields such as cancer screening or to help creat...
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 quickly and reliably as possible, according to the project’s lead engineer, Marc Stogaitis. And on July 23rd, plenty of people in the Philippine...
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 health impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated inequality around the world. Poor populations have disproportionately experienced COVID-19 infectio...
AI projects to tackle racial inequality in UK healthcare
By Andrew Gregory, The Guardian Artificial intelligence is to be used to tackle racial inequalities in the NHS under government plans to “level up” healthcare. It is hoped that millions of black, Asian and minority ethnic Britons will benefit fro...
Data-backed stories that drive change
By Ellen Macarthur Foundation The Need – each year an estimated USD 100 billion worth of food is thrown away by the hospitality industry, mainly due to overproduction. There are huge benefits in developing tools that help address this and the...
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 trillion wasted worldwide, a solution that pinpoints spoilage-inducing problems in fresh-food supply chains would be a game-changer. Australian agritech ...
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 Migration (IOM) today released a new synthetic dataset on human trafficking, made possible by innovative technology developed in partnership ...
