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  • Safer at sea: The unexpected benefit of traceability for small-scale fishers

    November 12, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Philippines, General Santos City

    Efforts to reduce illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing also make fishermen safer at sea. Vessel Monitoring Mechanisms (VMM) and electronic catch documentation (eCDT) track the origin of fish headed to market, part of an international effort to ensure sustainable and equitable practices. Data transmission also makes fishermen safer, relaying their locations from hundreds of miles out at sea. In the Philippines, a partnership between Futuristic Aviation and Maritime Enterprise (FAME) and USAID Oceans and Fisheries Partnership helps cover subscription fees for FAME radio transmitter service.

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  • The Dark Toll of Light Pollution

    November 04, 2019 |

    Freethink |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In the morning, before the city’s cleaning crew makes its rounds, volunteers of the Lights Out Baltimore chapter are counting the number of birds that fly into buildings. Each year, for four months, they monitor 25 buildings, documenting over 400 bird deaths annually due to flying into a building. Artificial light from buildings can interrupt their vision and cause them to collide with structures. Using citizen science to log bird collisions, they hope to convince property owners to dim their lights during peak hours of the migration season or install a bird-safe film to their windows.

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  • After Hurricane Dorian, The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue

    October 03, 2019 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    Humanitarian, crowdsourced street mapping has become a crucial part of disaster relief efforts. Initiatives like Missing Maps and OpenStreetMaps call on volunteer cartographers – professional or not – to fill in maps and data gaps so that emergency humanitarian efforts can help as many people as possible. Such platforms became necessary after Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas in September 2019, with over 100 people coming through to map previously unidentified roads and buildings.

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  • Want To Reduce Suicides? Follow The Data — To Medical Offices, Motels And Even Animal Shelters

    September 23, 2019 |

    Kaiser Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Hillsboro, Oregon

    To reduce the rate of suicides in Oregon, a Washington County epidemiologist formed an unlikely collaboration with the county's death investigators in order to build a comprehensive pool of data about where and why suicides were taking place. The outcome was a better understanding of prevention tactics that included partnering with "motel clerks and housekeepers, animal shelter workers, pain clinic staffers and more" to teach warning signs and ways to respond.

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  • Meteorology authority improves climate forecast systems

    September 18, 2019 |

    The Observer |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Early warning systems allow communities to implement effective disaster preparedness. The Uganda National Integrated Early Warning System (U-NIEWS), disseminates forecasts—ranging from weather patterns to market prices for crops—in a bulletin. Data is collected across the country and bulletins go out on a national level, disseminated by local stakeholders through WhatsApp, radio, and other media.

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  • Saving The Planet One Drone At A Time

    September 03, 2019 |

    Are We Europe |

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    Response Location: Antarctica

    As conservationists around the world grapple with saving endangered species, many have turned to the tech sector. Initiatives like The Zooniverse, a citizen science platform for people-powered research, are helping expand over 90 different projects. Even more, scientists have started directly collaborating with technologists to develop products, like weather-resistant cameras for capturing penguins in Antarctica, specially for their work.

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  • CU Anschutz unveils out-of-home gun storage map to help improve safety, prevent suicide

    August 26, 2019 |

    KMGH-TV |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Aurora, Colorado

    For individuals wanting to store their guns outside of their homes, they can now find a space using the Colorado Gun Storage Map. The interactive tool was developed in collaboration between the Colorado School of Public Health, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the Colorado Safety Coalition, with the goal of helping those in crisis situations find spaces like law enforcement agencies and special storage facilities to store their firearms.

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  • How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People With Disabilities

    August 21, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Crowdsourcing data allows developers to help those with limited mobility find accessible routes. The AccessMap Seattle project, in collaboration with the Taskar Center for Accessible Technology at the University of Washington and OpenStreetMap, has tested and is improving a map where users can find and edit information about the elevation of rotes, sidewalks, and crosswalks to serve those who are challenged with their mobility.

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  • Evidence of a solution: Using data to report more than just bad news

    June 27, 2019 |

    DataJournalism.com |

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    Response Location: United States

    Fact-based, data-driven, and solution-oriented journalism can shift the media paradigm from asking “what” to asking “how.” Solutions journalism, known also as constructive journalism in Europe, focuses on data and evidence to shift discourse from political advocacy and ideological debates to problem-solving and productive discussion. Using this approach, students in Eugene, Oregon, brought accountability to municipal administrators who had previously obfuscated the effectiveness of a program to reduce court caseloads.

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  • Can ‘Big Data' Help Fight Big Fires? Firefighters Are Betting on It

    June 24, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    FireMap is a new program that uses real-time data to predict the direction of wildfires. In Southern California, where the tool is being tested, there is a huge potential for positive impact - fires in California swept across about 1.7 million acres in 2018. FireMap is built off an older technology, but this one is faster, more accurate, and has greater potential to scale.

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