Audacious ideas are transforming the world

Center For Tech and Civic Life

Funding election upgrades is national emergency

Project CETI

With artificial intelligence and painstaking study of sperm whales, scientists hope to understand what these aliens of the deep are talking about.

Scientists to decode whale language.

Project CETI

The strange story of an unlikely crew of people who band together to take on one of our largest problems using nothing but whale sounds, machine learning, and a willingness to think outside the box. Even stranger, several of the world's most accomplished scientists seem to think they might have a good idea.

Climate Change, Machine Learning and Whale Songs

Drive Electric

People around the world are demanding clean air -- and cities are starting to respond, says electrification advocate Monica Araya. She takes us on a world tour of urban areas that are working to fully electrify their transportation systems over the next decade, shifting to emission-free motorcycles, cars, buses, ferries and beyond. See what a future without the internal combustion engine could look like -- and what it will take to get there.

How cities are detoxing transport

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Communities are using open source tools to help contain the coronavirus by mapping hand-washing stations and those at risk‍

Volunteer armies map 'invisible' communities hit by coronavirus

Project Echo

Project ECHO, which stands for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes, is now a national organization with hubs throughout the country. It allows healthcare professionals to regularly consult with specialists at larger institutions over video, and those specialists also get to learn from reviewing the cases in rural areas

Spurred By A Preventable Death, One Project Has Become A Major Tool To Combat COVID-19

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Collaborative projects for mapping in disaster, health, and conflict situations are on the rise around the world as satellite technologies improve, becoming accessible for a much wider range of people worldwide.

The rise of collaborative mapping for the masses

Institute for Protein Design

For years, scientists have been warning us about the alarming rise in drug-resistant bacteria — but it doesn’t have to be our future.‍

9 eye-opening facts about antibiotic resistance — and 1 hopeful approach to overcoming it

The progress on ending extreme poverty, preventable child deaths, gender equality and climate change was too hard won to be sidelined.

Looking beyond the lowest-common denominator? DFID/FCO merger

To gain the public’s trust, experts say officials should work with community members when they develop contact tracing programs.

Contact tracing programs have to work with local communities to be successful