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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Artificial intelligence in medicine: Getting smarter one patient at a time
By Kathleen Raven, Yale University What if doctors had more time to spend addressing their patients’ concerns? That’s the thrust behind the push for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into medicine. By using complex algorithms to d...
ANU-Optus Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence
By Australian National University Australia is experiencing unprecedented extreme fire conditions associated with prolonged drought, high temperatures and strong winds. This extreme weather creates catastrophic bushfire conditions that exceed known f...
Partnership Reports on Better Data to Improve Lives, Reach SDGs
By International Institute of Sustainable Development The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data launched a report on the use of data to improve lives and support SDG achievement. Examples from around the world highlight the use of data...
How a homemade dashboard helped resume 3,000 necessary surgeries during COVID-19
By Bill Siwicki Elective but necessary surgeries were banned for a time. To properly catch up, Phoenix Children’s Hospital built a visually informative, interactive, actionable dashboard using Microsoft’s Power BI software. With the increasing s...
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 ...
AFL Players Launch 2020 Indigenous Map
By Staff Writers, AFL Players In celebration of National Reconciliation Week, the AFL Players’ Association has launched its updated Indigenous Map for 2020. The map highlights the cultural diversity of the AFL’s Indigenous players with the league...
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...
