Audacious ideas are transforming the world

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

Molecular biologist Christian Happi is working around the clock to get testing available throughout the continent.

Bolstering Africa’s coronavirus detection efforts

Today in America, you have Covid-19 bringing biblical plague to the black community. The job loss is already at depression level, and now you have civil unrest following the killing of George Floyd. We must build a cradle to career set of supports for children, improve housing and health care, and ultimately help support and strengthen families and neighborhoods.

Op Ed: It’s time to invest in community infrastructure

Crisis Text Line

With the COVID-19 pandemic driving a mental health emergency, a service providing support for people in crisis via text messages is speeding up expansion plans to add four new languages in the next two and a half years.

Text Message Crisis Help Line Speeds Up Expansion Amid Pandemic