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.

How AI/ML is helping to eradicate poverty

Outside the US, the definition of poverty is income of $1.50 a day or less per individual. In the United States the definition of poverty is income less than $34 per day per individual or a family of four with income less than $69 per day.

Microsoft challenges Australian students to use AI to solve social and environmental issues

Microsoft Australia and professional learning organisation, Education Changemakers, are calling on teachers and local high school students to enter a new national competition – the AI for Good Challenge – to learn about artificial intelligence (AI) and engage with it confidently and ethically, by developing ideas for AI solutions to help tackle real world social and environmental challenges.

How AI is helping make the world greener

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here, and it’s already changing the shape of many industries and seeping into daily life. In our previous article, we’ve explored how AI (Artificial Intelligence) is helping open up the digital world for people with disabilities.

Mapping America’s wicked weather and deadly disasters

The fear of losing everything in a natural disaster sits in the back of our minds no matter where we live. The same diverse physical geography that gives us sunny beaches and crisp mountain air also generates devastating storms and wildfires. Climate change is only making things worse.

How A.I. Can Help Handle Severe Weather

Maria Uriarte, a professor in the department of ecology, evolution and environmental biology at Columbia University, is trying to understand how Hurricane Maria in 2017 altered plant life in Puerto Rico.

How data collected from mobile phones can help electricity planning

"In sub-Saharan Africa, there are more people with mobile phones than access to electricity, as people are willing to commute to get a signal and/or charge their phones. By using mobile data we were able to identify the approximate size of rural villages and access to education and health facilities."
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