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  • Metropolitan Museum Aims for Accessibility with Sign Language Tours on Facebook Live

    April 18, 2018 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Metropolitan Museum in New York has interested tens of thousands of hearing-impaired art enthusiasts through their American Sign Language (ASL) tours on Facebook Live. The ASL tours are part of the Met’s newly launched Open Access initiative, which focuses on expanding the access of their collections online. In addition to the high numbers of engagement, the ASL online tours bring attention to American Sign Language and “the Deaf identity.” The Met also offers transcripts of curatorial guides for in-person visitors.

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  • In North Carolina, Hog Waste Is Becoming A Streamlined Fuel Source

    April 17, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Swine biogas are making an appearance across North Carolina, a state with more hogs than any other state in the U.S. Turning methane from hog waste into electricity has allowed the state to earn valuable carbon offset credits as they work towards brining emissions to zero.

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  • This app maker says his work saved thousands during Hurricane Harvey — and he's not done yet

    April 17, 2018 |

    The Verge |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    After Hurricane Harvey, it was hard to locate people amidst the swaths of water covering the city. Two Houstonians developed a “web-based geolocation service” that used data from social media to locate and visualize people’s location. Since then, they’ve updated their service and it’s been used for other catastrophes, helping rescue as many as 37,000 people.

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  • AI tool helps law enforcement find victims of human trafficking

    April 16, 2018 |

    Futurism |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    When Emily Kennedy was a teenager traveling in Eastern Europe she saw street kids she learned were trafficked by the Russian mob and decided to tackle human trafficking in her college work. The company she launched, Marinus Analytics, created a software application that has been used by authorities to rescue hundreds of victims in the U.S. and Canada and is expanding. The data it gathers has also debunked assumptions about how and where trafficking takes place.

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  • Telemedicine transforms healthcare in Dadaab

    April 15, 2018 |

    Mediamax Network |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Gertrude Children's Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya has a new telemedicine program that allows pediatric specialists to consult on cases in rural areas of Kenya. Specialists can hold consults with patients via webcam to help clinics that don't have access to pediatricians offer a higher standard of care to patients without having them travel prohibitively long distances to larger hospitals.

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  • Researchers Produce High-tech Clear Banana Juice Commercialization

    April 14, 2018 |

    IPP Media |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Turning bananas into juice isn't a new practice, but it is a less than efficient process for those that do it, and it also tends to lack hygienic care. New technology, however, alleviates this issue while also making it possible to store the juice for longer periods of time.

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  • Here's how The New York Times is trying to preserve millions of old pages the way they were originally published

    April 12, 2018 |

    Nieman Lab |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Project Kondo has identified and archived over 7 million New York Times web pages that contain news content in outdated and unsupported formats. Readers can report broken links, but the number of sites to review is too big to do by hand, so the team created an automated tool called ‘munger’ to identify JavaScript with unsupported code and clean it up into HTML that can be shared widely. In order to preserve the content exactly how it was originally published, the websites are moved to a different domain, archive.nytimes.com, where readers are notified that they are reading an archived article.

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  • World's first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden

    April 12, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Stockholm, Sweden has opened the world's first stretch of road that will recharge car's batteries as people drive. Similar to a tram system, but half the cost, motorists install a moveable arm to the undercarriage of their vehicles which connects to the electrified strip running down the road. Talks have already begun about expanding the pilot in order to move towards achieving independence from fossil fuels by 2030.

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  • Building an open, digital democracy in Taiwan

    April 10, 2018 |

    Equal Times |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    In Taiwan, more than 4,500 citizens helped design regulations on ride-hailing and taxi companies by sharing feedback on digital platforms. The online tools can support democratic policymaking but face some accessibility barriers. They are part of a wider initiative by President Tsai Ing-wen to increase governmental transparency and civic engagement.

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  • How Nearly 2,000 Cameras Tamed a Notorious American Prison

    April 09, 2018 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Attica, New York

    1,875 cameras and 915 microphones is what it took to change a culture of abuse in Attica State Prison, notoriously known as one of the worst places to serve time in amongst prisoners. Since the installation of the cameras, incident reports against corrections officers dropped 80 percent.

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