OUR NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO UNLEASHING YOUR TEAM'S POTENTIAL

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The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

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Startups and social entreprises that are transforming cities around the world through technology.

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This site tracks COVID-19 testing data and hospital bed availability over time in the city of Chicago.

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rAInbow is a smart companion for domestic abuse victims, people in difficult or abusive, controlling situations and unhealthy relationships. The chatbot uses artificial intelligence and storytelling (platform provides the users with personalised, immersive stories of characters who may have had similar experiences) to help victims of domestic violence find support through prevention, intervention and access to resources. The platform is hoping to provide South African domestic abuse victims with a safe space to speak out about their situations. Since its launch in November 2018, 300,000 conversations have been started on rAInbow

Explore, visualise and interact with youth-centered data

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Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.

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Enabling access to global clinical research studies. Launch your clinical study and find thousands of vetted, eligible participants in minutes.

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Championing the ethical use of technology

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Welcome to your 8-day data detox! In just half an hour or less per day, you'll be well on your way to a healthier and more in-control digital self. What are you waiting for?

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Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

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Medsaf is a curated medication marketplace for African hospitals and pharmacies.

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The Emanuel administration hoped to harness the city’s trove of digital data to improve Chicagoans’ health, safety, and quality of life.

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

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Political organization focused on generating healthy physical and digital spaces for co-creation and incidence in the political landscape.

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People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers

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Bringing a new approach to urban health, one block at a time

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Leverages opt-in wearables health data to try to predict the spread of the pandemic

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We are focused on leveraging leapfrog technologies and an ecosystem of partners to offer rural, underserved communities affordable and holistic solutions for their basic needs. Our data insights revealed that families in Buikwe spend up to $20 a month to access unclean energy (charcoal), unclean water, limited healthcare, and no electricity. Our solution will solve these challenges through providing telemedicine, microfinance, smart agriculture, solar power, insurance, internet connectivity and clean water, at only $8 a month

Ezolwaluko is a provincial Web platform that serves as database for initiates. Ezolwaluko is an "initiation watch" that provides citizens with information on whether the traditional surgeons are registered with the Eastern Cape Department of Health or not. On the web platfrom Eastern Cape citizens can report illegal tradtional surgeons, register to become a tradtional surgeon with the Department of Health and report initiates in trouble. Ezolwaluko is provincial available in both English and IsiXhosa

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

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Unite Us is an outcome-focused technology company that builds coordinated care networks of health and social service providers.

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Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

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The Ministry of Health (MISAU), in fulfilling its mandate to provide health services to all Mozambicans, has drawn up the Strategic Health Sector Plan (PESS) 2014-2019 with a view to “helping all Mozambicans, especially target groups vulnerable, to enjoy the best possible health, at an affordable cost. ” Despite the existence of a lot of health information available to help citizens to avoid contracting diseases as well as taking initial measures whenever symptoms arise, the segment of the population that most needs this information is often deprived of it, due to the means of communication. communication used. Email / Internet campaigns rarely reach hidden areas, and many citizens remain without the means to buy televisions or enough energy to power this device. It is for these reasons that we found a possible solution on mobile phones, and in particular the Educational Health Information Platform (PENSA).

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Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

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IDEO brings together technologists and social innovators to imagine new uses for these “flying helpers"

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Hamdam is a classic period and ovulation tracker with a twist: a significant function of the app is to help familiarize Iranian women with their reproductive and legal rights.

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Daily situation reports and data from the World Health Organization

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Luminate Group's daily email digest of findings across the following topics: Data platforms and privacy-preserved tracingNovel testing for both COVID-19 and antibodiesTreatments and vaccine developmentDecentralized supply chains and open-source hardwareVulnerable populations and protecting at-risk groupsStrengthening the safety net to deliver aid and preserve/create jobsHealth system and workforce protections and capacityPublic-private partnership opportunitiesOpen innovation initiatives

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World Central Kitchen and its partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day.

• US Election 2020

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The COVID Challenge Platform is a no-cost clearinghouse to connect healthcare and government agencies to the resources they urgently need to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

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Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

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Nameesa, which is an AI powered conversational and personal engagement platform that automatically responds to people inquiries about Coronavirus (COVID-19) with information from credible sources such as WHO and Ministry of Health.

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Services week is a nationwide, cross-government event that looks at how we can work together to deliver end-to-end, user-focused services.

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Hundreds of public agencies around the world use Strava Metro to evaluate and improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure. Strava

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One of the key factors in a Nation’s democratic success is how engaged and inclusive her Government is. However, the health of any democratic society may be measured by the levels of engagement and inclusion of the private citizen. The Civic Hub is modelled as an accelerator to help social or civil intervention grow into systems for Citizens’ – Government engagement.

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Health-e News is South Africa’s award-winning television and print health news service that has been producing news and in-depth analysis for national media since 1999. Health-e News has television, online and print clients and has a nationwide network of citizen journalists called OurHealth who are based in rural villages and small towns throughout the country.

As the nation's largest public health philanthropy, we strive to build a national Culture of Health that will enable all to live longer, healthier lives.

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Monitoring Thai Elections with Citizen Engagement

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Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform. The project is an initiative of Map Kibera and uses the Ushahidi platform to aggregate and map citizen reports. The platform aggregates local citizen reports from the Kibera community media and other relevant news and information. In partnership with various local organizations, the Map Kibera team (http://mapkibera.org/) launched Voice of Kibera to visualize reporting in and about Kibera (one of the largest slums in Africa). The platform acts as a social reporting platform used to enhance resilience through community-led actions. It has become a dataset about the challenges faced by Kibera’s residents, the existing services and capacity (e.g. clinics, schools, water resources), and other relevant news and information about the area. Via a simple web-based reporting system, citizens of Kibera can report incidents, from security presence, to health, education, and natural disasters.

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Digital Rights Monopoly is a game that reflects core digital rights issues affecting youth in marginalized regions, and offers pathways to build a healthier internet in local communities.

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EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

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• Watchdogging and transparency

Understanding the balance between utility, privacy and the uncertainty associated with synthetic data sets

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A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

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Chalmers can help you find things like: free meals, overnight shelter, clothing banks, emergency contacts and can point you to offline and online mental health services.

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Comparison of online social benefit platforms for all 50 US states

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NowPow connects people to high quality community resources to help address their chronic health and social conditions or just stay well.

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Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact. Working closely with governments and nonprofits, fellows take on real-world problems in education, health, energy, public safety, transportation, economic development, international development, and more. For three months in Chicago they learn, hone, and apply their data science, AI,analytical, and coding skills, collaborate in a fast-paced atmosphere, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia.

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