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.
As with many of the global challenges we work to tackle every day, the Coronavirus Disease-2019, or COVID-19, requires collective action and a coordinated response. It can't be contained by any one country, organization, or person.
by Dr Scott Chambers
Scientists who study the atmosphere often use seasonal averages in their studies of ...
by Nilesh Bell-Gorsia - Executive Producer, Google Developer Studio
n 2016, a crop-destroying caterpillar, Fall ...
By Caitlin Augustin, Director of Product, DataKind
To drive sector-wide change, DataKind is looking to use data ...
by Shahida Sweeney, FST Media
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released new Covid-19 online ...
The Salish Sea, which extends from British Columbia to Washington State in the U.S., was once home to hundreds of killer whales, also known as orcas. Now, the population of Southern Resident Killer Whales, a subgroup of orcas, is struggling to survive—there are only 73 of them left. Building on our work using AI for Social Good, we’re partnering with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to apply machine learning to protect killer whales in the Salish Sea.
Over three-quarters of food production around the world depends on the actions of natural pollinators (mainly bees); but also, that pollinators are dying out at an alarming rate, around 30% per year. This is jeopardizing our food supply (that’s $600 billion worth of agricultural activity) and 1.4 billion agriculture-dependent livelihoods.
Large-scale collection of data could help curb the COVID-19 pandemic, but it should not neglect privacy and public trust. Best practices should be identified to maintain responsible data-collection and data-processing standards at a global scale.
BeesCount is #crowdsourcing photos of #bees and other #pollinators for our Global Pollinator Map. Download the #beescount app and start uploading photos! Upload those pics in your photo library too!
Big data refers to the astonishing amount of information that is created as a by-product of the growing digitization of our lives – our use of mobile phones, social networks, search engines, online payment methods, apps, and so on.
The African Drone and Data Academy: The African Drone and Data Academy (ADDA) aims to be a centre of excellence ...
SDG 5: ACHIEVE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS
Providing women and girls with equal ...
