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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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...
The use of technology increases transparency of supply chain risks
By FairSupply The use of technology in supply chain analytics will result in a significant increase to transparency and visibility. The Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform FRDM use algorithms run against their knowledge base to assess modern slav...
A Generation To Protect
By UNICEF Monitoring violence, exploitation and abuse of children within the SDG framework Every child has the right to be protected from violence, exploitation and harmful practices. This right is a critical component of the 2030 Agenda for...
How the Internet of Things is Building Smarter Cities
By Katie Jones, Visual Capitalist Urban populations are rising around the world, but cities are struggling to keep up. As the silent force that has revolutionized our world, technology is now being leveraged to manage rapid urbanization and to cre...
‘More Blue’: An Artwork Shows the Sea Changing During Lockdown
By Nina Siegal, The NY Times A data-driven media installation, created to reflect marine conditions around the world, has altered with the slowing human activity. What impact does human behavior have on the Earth’s waters? Two London-based archite...
Visualizing the Global Rise of Sustainable Investing
By Iman Ghosh, Visual Capitalist No matter where you look, climate change is at the centre of every conversation. With a wide range of global sustainability challenges and complex risks on the rise, investors are starting to re-evaluate traditional ...
How a college student became a planet hunter
By Anne Dattilo, Former student, University of Texas at Austin I didn’t grow up thinking I was going to be an astronomer. There wasn’t a moment when I looked up at the moon and realized my destiny. I grew up loving math and science and in col...
Scientists turn to drones to cleanup plastic-polluted rivers
By Josh Spires, Drone DJ The Mekong River flows through six countries in Asia, contributing to much of the plastic in the oceans. Drones are being used to take photos of the plastic found in the river, giving them a geo-tag to provide scientists wi...
