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  • 'A New Generation of Poll Workers' Steps Up to Ensure Safe, Fair Elections Audio icon

    October 01, 2020 |

    Ms. Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    New groups are recruiting poll workers to help fill shortages made worse by Covid-19. Poll Hero Project is an initiative created and led by young people that has recruited over 28,000 high school and college-age poll workers using social media. Power the Polls is a coalition of well-known brands that used social media outreach, digital marketing, and celebrity promotions to sign up over 530,000 volunteers. Both groups help navigate what can be a complicated process to sign up to work the polls.

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  • The Pandemic is Resurrecting India's Folk Arts by Forcing Performers to Make Their Online Debut

    September 30, 2020 |

    Vice |

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    Response Location: India

    Shaale.com is an online platform that hosts performances and learning content on classical and folk arts from India. The coronavirus pandemic meant lost income for most of the country’s performers, especially those in rural areas. So many have figured out ways to monetize their arts by putting them online where overseas and domestic subscribers pay to access the performances. Other platforms, such as the nonprofit Kalbeliya World, provides performers with a chance to earn money by offering classes to people from around the world. Most of the students are from the Europe and the Americas.

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  • 2020 Changes Help Disabled, Blind Voters

    September 29, 2020 |

    KDNK Community Radio |

    Podcast |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    A Colorado system allows voters with disabilities to request an accessible ballot, which enables them to fill out their ballot online using a personal computer or a smart phone. This allows voters to maintain confidentiality in their voting selections rather than needing to have someone assist them in filling out their ballot. Voters can fill out their ballots online, using assistive technologies if necessary, and then print their ballot to either mail to their county clerk or drop off at an official ballot drop box in their county.

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  • In Rio, Mapping Gunshots Can Backfire

    September 29, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    Crime-tracking mobile apps give millions of Brazilians crowdsourced data on urban violence, alerting people to dangerous places and filling gaps in government data on shootings, robberies, and other risks. But apps such as Fogo Cruzado (“Crossfire”) and Onde Tem Tiroteio (“Where There's a Shooting”) offer statistically crude glimpses of crime, distorted by media and racial biases that one expert blames for myths about the risks people actually face.

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  • Why Detroit Might Be the True Test of Whether More Cameras Make Cities Safer

    September 28, 2020 |

    70 Million |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    In Detroit, Project Greenlight uses video surveillance technology to try to solve and deter street crime. Instead of the police requesting private security video after a crime occurs, businesses pay to install the Greenlight system, which then streams video live to police analysts. The police claim it has lowered crime, but researches have found no evidence that it affects violent crime rates. Critics see the system as a pay-to-play system in which businesses buy better police protection. And they say that the cameras, and the use of facial recognition software, bias enforcement against people of color.

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  • State of Texas: Lawmakers weigh ‘solutions' proposed for education equity during pandemic

    September 27, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Texas

    In Texas, 2 million households in the state don’t have high speed internet, affecting students of color at a greater rate. Some districts have also had problems with chronic absenteeism. This segment explores creative solutions enacted by different schools in Texas. In Lockhart ISD the district built seven cell phone towers to provide high speed internet to rural students who lived in dead zones. In Leander ISD, a librarian and a parent when door knocking to reconnect with absent bilingual students. In Manor ISD, a digital tracking system helped boost the rate of contactable students from 91 percent, to 99.

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  • How South Korea Successfully Managed Coronavirus

    September 25, 2020 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    Despite never mandating a lockdown, South Korea has been able to better control the spread of COVID-19 as compared to other countries of similar economic and development status. Focusing on information management and testing, as well as the use of technology to aid both of these tactics, the country has kept the case count to fewer than 80 cases per day. According to the chairman of the World Health Organization’s global outbreak alert and response network, “No country has adapted to living with, and containing, the virus like South Korea."

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  • Purple Keys, Part 2

    September 25, 2020 |

    Are We Europe |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: France

    A mobile app called App-Elles was used 5,400 times during the early months of the pandemic by either the survivors of gender-based violence or witnesses and helpers trying to connect the survivors to assistance. Created by French singer Diariata N'Diaye, the app lets users designate three "protectors" chosen in advance to receive alerts. Once alerted, they can summon help via text message or other discreet means of contacting women who are trapped at home with their abusers. The app is among other examples of digital survivor-aid services developed for women during the pandemic.

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  • Do We Need Police To Curb L.A.'s Traffic Violence? Some Cities Are Saving Lives Without Them

    September 24, 2020 |

    LAist |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Five years after Los Angeles launched its Vision Zero program to reduce traffic fatalities, the numbers of pedestrians and cyclists killed on city streets have soared. By relying too heavily on the racially fraught and often ineffective practice of police stops of vehicles, and by not spending enough on street redesigns and automated enforcement technologies, L.A. has failed to make the kind of progress that cities like New York and Seattle have made with engineering innovations, stricter speed limits, and camera enforcement.

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  • REDMAP

    September 23, 2020 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    The Redistricting Majority Project, or REDMAP, used a sophisticated mapping technology and fund-raising strategy to flip 21 states' legislatures from Democratic to Republican control after the 2010 Census. That campaign, which poured money into hundreds of local elections to affect the outcomes, made a major impact on partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts in the following years, and on state policymaking. With the Supreme Court's refusal to block such tactics, the post-2020 Census promises to feature even more partisan manipulation of districts and local elections.

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