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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Using Ride-hailing Data for Sustainable Transport Systems
By Pulse Lab Jakarta As traffic congestion in modern cities becomes more complex and dynamic, continuous streams of data with high spatio-temporal coverage are important for transport planning to better meet the mobility needs of citizens, while safe...
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 leverage cloud technologies to better understand the decline in bee populations globally and devise innovative strategies to help farmers manage bee a...
World-first research shows female CEOs boost companies by $80m on average
By Annabel Crabb, ABC news Electrifying new Australian research has established direct proof for the first time that companies do better when they appoint more women to leadership positions. The study, based on six years of Australian companies̵...
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 Indonesia recently launched an initiative called #AmanBersamaGojek translated as “safe with Gojek”. Under the pillars of technology, protection and e...
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 matters most to them, how different would people’s priorities be around the globe? It turns out we have this information, and it is from the OECD ...
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 transform their fundraising. The collection and analysis of data can be a valuable tool in helping charities respond to the needs of their users and take the ...
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, largely due to the coronavirus, some uplifting news from the airline has come today. In what’s reportedly a world first, Air New Zealand’s joining N...
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 can be the best medicine. What new data streams could help quell future outbreaks? Londoners were able to track the march of cholera across the East E...
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Wildlife Conservation
By Medium.com The African forest elephant population has dropped 65% percent over the past decade as a result of the ivory trade. The rhinoceros population has fared even worse. At the end of 2015, conservationists’ best estimates indicated that ...
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 sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to analyse the seismic data for undiscovered patterns in the lead-up to eruptions. The four-hour energy bur...
Journey begins for Teachers of STEM Initiative participants
By Stronger Smarter First Nations Women have long been the strong backbone that provide support and structure to Indigenous communities across Australia. The Stronger Smarter Institute’s acknowledges this strength through a new initiative known as...
Monitoring Lakes Using Remote Sensing Data
By Mark Altaweel, GIS Lounge Increasingly, lakes, small and large, around the world are under threat from different forms of pollution. This threatens a large percentage of the Earth’s freshwater supply, as lakes are often among the most critical r...
