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  • The 4 simple reasons Germany is managing Covid-19 better than its neighbors

    October 14, 2020 |

    Vox |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Germany

    A combination of luck, learning, local responses, and listening has kept Germany's coronavirus cases manageable, even as the pandemic continues to impact much of the world. In particular, the ability to enact decentralized approaches and locally scale-up testing in conjunction with a high rate of trust in public health departments proved to be especially impactful.

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  • Ex-logger leads firefighters defending Indonesia's peatlands

    October 14, 2020 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Indonesia, Rawa Mekar Jaya, Riau

    An Indonesian government program called Masyarakat Peduli Api, or “Fire Care Community,” aims to improve community responses to wildfires and restore peatlands — valuable ecosystems that store carbon. Through community engagement and education, this volunteer fire brigade patrols the peatlands and addresses small fires before they spread. The program remains underfunded, but residents recognize the importance of their work.

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  • San Francisco Doula Program Tackles Birth Equity and Economic Justice in One Fell Swoop

    October 14, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    A doula program in San Francisco is helping to create jobs and build equity in maternal health, especially for Black mothers. Training is free for the client as well as for the doulas, with trainees also receiving mentorship and full benefits. To date, the organization has raised nearly $1 million for operational expenses from a variety of channels including "foundations, a city-managed health plan, and revenue from a local sugary drinks tax."

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  • With unemployment hotline overloaded and stimulus on hold, PA boosts chatbot 90x

    October 13, 2020 |

    Billy Penn |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Accessing information about unemployment compensation online just got easier for residents of Pennsylvania. The current chat box capacity is 500 but will be increased to 50,000 by the end of the year. The phone hotline currently receives about 20,000 daily calls and has been difficult to get through since the unemployment benefits began in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown. The website also features a virtual assistant, which answers hundreds of commonly asked questions.

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  • Illinois advocates work to ensure ballot access for jail voters during pandemic

    October 13, 2020 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Cook County, Illinois

    Many people who are currently incarcerated still retain the right to vote, and as the 2020 election approaches advocates in Illinois are making sure that those who are in Chicago’s Cook County Jail have access to ballots. Under a newly implemented law, Cook County Jail was designated as a polling place, which increased access for pretrial detainees and those serving certain misdemeanor convictions, and ultimately resulted in a higher voter turnout for the March primaries.

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  • Equality of Opportunity

    October 13, 2020 |

    Montana Free Press |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Crow Indian Reservation, United States, Montana

    Legal challenges have protected Native voting rights since the 1980s, when districts diluting native votes were ruled unconstitutional and redrawn. In 2012, three tribes sued to increase access to registration and polling sites. The county settled, agreeing to open offices on two reservations two days a week. In 2018, tribal leaders challenged a law limiting the number of ballots someone could collect on behalf of others. A judge agreed that, by disproportionately suppressing Native votes, it was unconstitutional. The legal challenges increased voter turnout and helped elect more Native representatives.

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  • Scrap-and-Replace Program Helps Low-Income Californians Afford Cleaner Cars (and Now, E-Bikes)

    October 13, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In an attempt to curb carbon emissions from the transportation sector, Californians are trading in old, environmentally-unfriendly cars in for greener electric cars or vouchers for alternative transportation. Clean Cars 4 All requires participants to meet income-based eligibility and only takes cars built in 1999 or earlier. The program will soon include rebates on electric bikes as well.

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  • Fruits of shared labour: the Indian women joining forces for food security

    October 13, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Tamil Nadu

    A grassroots organization in Tamil Nadu, India has helped women farmers throughout the region to create "small informal farming groups" so that they can collectively lease land for their agriculture businesses. This collective farming venture, which has culminated in 89 collective farms with nearly 700 members, ensures "nutrition and food security for landless women at the household level."

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  • This game can stop people from falling for COVID-19 conspiracies

    October 13, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cambridge, England

    To combat the spread of conspiracy theories, researchers at Cambridge’s Social Decision Making Lab have created an interactive game that puts users in the shoes of "manipulators" to teach them how to "question social media posts that have the hallmarks of engineered virality." Although experts say playing the game just one time will likely not result in sustainable change, a similar game that focused on understanding how fake news was created found that users' beliefs in fake news decreased by an average of 21%.

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  • How will Lithuania's contact-tracing app work?

    October 13, 2020 |

    Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

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    Response Location: Lithuania

    Lithuanian officials are launching a contact-tracing app to better trace the path of coronavirus cases and alert people when they have potentially been exposed. Although there have been delays in the roll-out of the app, other countries have already released the technology and have seen success in people downloading the app as well as quarantining when alerted that they've been in contact with the virus.

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