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.
by Australian Bureau of Statistics
More than two in five (43.7 per cent) Australians aged 16-85 years have ...
by By Alex Reis, European Scientist
Researchers from Newcastle University, UK, created a tool to find the gaps ...
by Microsoft, Singapore
The Singapore National Parks Board (NParks), Microsoft and Conservation International ...
by Mark Say, Managing Editor
A group of UK universities have joined an initiative to use data science in ...
By George Newhouse, The Big Smoke
NAIDOC Week is a time to celebrate Indigenous culture and community and ...
by Robin de Vries, Geospatial Analyst
To solve the plastic pollution problem, we must first understand its ...
By Lilian Ta & Casey Merrick
The Challenge
BaptistCare NSW & ACT has been a leading provider ...
by Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine
The battery-free devices could be used to gather environmental data ...
by Ryan Layer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Using big data to find ...
by Claudia Santori and Ricky Spencer, The Conversation
Citizen science is ripe with benefits. Programs can ...
by Liz Kimbrough, Mongabay
In the world’s largest rainforest, wildlife crawls, hops, flies and prowls through ...
By Liew Ming En, GovInsider
Have you ever asked Siri or Alexa to ‘Text mum “I love you”’, only to realise that ...
