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Showing doctors the way to lower cost, improved care

Rebecca Plevin

May 06, 2015 |

Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

The United States health care system is expensive and enables doctors to prescribe costly brand name medication instead of generic versions. Sutter Health assembles its doctors a few times a week to review with electronic records the prescribing of brand name drugs and the necessity of procedures as an effort to reduce health care costs and to reduce unnecessary tests. In two years, the initiative has saved $30 million.

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Help the Nepal Aid Effort By Making a Map

Laura Bliss

April 27, 2015 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Nepal

Citizen cartographers around the globe are tracing and checking roads, buildings, and open spaces to assist people on the ground. You can help.

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Now It's Personal

Elin Kelsey

April 22, 2015 |

Hakai Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Pacific Grove, California

Marine biologists around the world are adopting personalization technologies into their work to help them better understand the movements and lives of the undersea creatures they’re monitoring. For example, the Shark Net app allows California researchers to receive notifications via smartphone about individual white sharks. Initiatives like this allow for a combination of personalization and crowdsourcing, which can be a boon for marine conservation efforts.

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Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

Hari Sreenivasan Judy Woodruff

April 10, 2015 |

PBS NewsHour |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.

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Did That Restaurant Pass Its Health Inspection? Now Yelp Will Tell You

Poncie Rutsch

March 27, 2015 |

NPR |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Yelp has partnered with city public health departments to display health inspection scores on a restaurants Yelp page. In this way, inspection information is more readily disseminated to consumers and diners can make better informed choices.

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Estonia redefines national security in a digital age

Molly McCluskey

March 20, 2015 |

Al Jazeera |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Estonia, Tallinn

Estonia is preparing to protect itself digitally from any neighbouring enemies. To do so it is trying to create 'data embassies', that would have the same protections as physical embassies, in order to protect the digital continuity of the people

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A Vermont-Made App That Could Save Kids' Lives

Ken Picard

March 04, 2015 |

Seven Days |

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Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

Medical providers, tech experts and business professionals joined together to create in Vermont to create MEDSINC, a mobile app that helps people with no medical background to treat children with health risks. The "mobile intelligence software" provides a list of questions to help assess a child's health risks and, based on results, offers treatment suggestions. An early pilot shows, "the app's recommendations have corresponded to those of actual pediatricians 94 percent of the time."

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How cities are searching for solutions among massive mounds of data

John Lorinc

February 20, 2015 |

The Globe and Mail |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

New York City suffered from fires that erupted in overcrowded, run-down apartments. Then the city sleuthed through residential records and found that landlords who foreclosed let their properties fall apart and ignored safety-code violations. Greater Toronto wants to expand upon New York City’s method by using transportation surveys, census data and computer data to build transit lines.

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The End of Gangs

Sam Quinones

December 29, 2014 |

Pacific Standard |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

In 2014, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that gang-related crime had dropped by nearly half since 2008. The transformation of LA holds lessons for decreasing violent crime through community policing, a focus on gangs, and the use of CompStat.

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In Tanzania, Coke improves medical distributions

Jacob Kushner

September 29, 2014 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tanzania

Project Last Mile is a partnership between Coca-Cola and Tanzania’s Medical Stores Department that is helping to deliver medications to the most remote parts of the country. Due to this partnership, the Medical Stores Department has been able to leverage Coca-Cola's "geocoded software to identify the most efficient delivery schedules and routes," and significantly increase the availability of medicine throughout Tanzania.

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