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Digital Inclusion
Accelerating The Equitable Use Of Data For Common Good
United States
How has the population of each American state evolved over the last decade?
Using the most recent Census Bureau data, a visualization has been created which shows how each U.S. state's population has changed over the last decade.
Latin America
Latin America could become a world leader in non-commercial open science
Fernanda Beigel from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo makes the case that Latin America has the optimal conditions to create open science infrastructure.
Data Science
Could all your digital photos be stored as DNA?
MIT scientists are working on a more effective method of storing data using DNA, which can contain massive quantities at a very high density.
United States
COVID-19 tests rely on bacteria discovered in a natural pool in the 1960s - and it’s not the only slice of nature essential to medicine
The natural world is an important source of medicines. PCR tests for COVID-19 are only effective due to a bacteria discovered in the Yellowstone National Park.
Biodiversity
Scientists are mapping animal migration to improve conservation
These mapping efforts are helping to create conservation solutions, in order to encourage more migration and protect the ecological health of regions.
Climate Change
Lessons learned from five years of extreme weather ‘rapid attribution’
In 2015, the WWA launched a collaboration between climate scientists in the UK, Netherlands, France and beyond, to understand the causes of extreme weather.
Artificial Intelligence
The iTeam: How researchers created a group of robots that work together
The method of Distributed Local Search improves the robot team’s performance by adding or removing individual robot’s trajectories from the group’s overall plan.
JRS2021
Want to understand the extent of the world’s digital divide? Look at these 3 charts
The World Development Report 2021, Data for Better Lives seeks to highlight and address inequalities with regards to data connectivity.
United States
These maps show the extreme variations of US population density
This research visualises the rural equivalent of heavily populated areas in America such as New York, offering a different perspective of the country.
Behavioural Sciences
What is the best way to visualize human emotion?
William James originally proposed four basic emotions (fear, grief, love, and rage) which still form a considerable foundation for current frameworks.
Education and Skills
These are some of Coursera’s most popular coding courses
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the uptake of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. People are reskilling and technology jobs are offering better job security.
Gender Parity
Gender equality: Why pay equity isn’t enough
Research shows that many women tend to perform roles that pay less per hour than men, such as care work, education, bank tellers, bookkeeping and payroll.
India
How India can improve urban public health with lessons from COVID-19
Healthcare data and infrastructure investment need to be policy priorities for India, where cholera, tuberculosis, dengue and Ebola are still prevalent.
The Davos Agenda 2021
Here’s how data can help us fix the climate
Investors still do not have the information they need to take sustainability into account when making investment decisions.