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New report highlights how innovations in data, AI and publishing are advancing science
...can be used to advance scientific research and dissemination of knowledge. The complete proceedings of the workshop are captured in a new report, Data in Motion: New Approaches to Advancing...
Foundation announces new grants to accelerate potential of digital health
...Foundation’s Strategist for AI, Data, and Digital Health. ”Our new grants reflect ongoing exploration of how to ensure digitally-enabled approaches continue to put people and communities at the center of...
Foundation awards more than $10 million to drive digital equity and to support relief and recovery for vulnerable communities
...behind. The Hidden Genius Project Founding Executive Director Dr. Brandon Nicholson works with students. (Photo courtesy of The Hidden Genius Project) “We need to come together to create new pathways...
Ariadne Labs’ Dr. Asaf Bitton on social distancing, connection, resilience and courage
...knew what was happening in the park could prove dangerous. Dr. Asaf Bitton, executive director of Ariadne Labs Friends and coworkers were directing lots of questions Bitton’s way about coronavirus...
App helps governments, health leaders and NGOs track critical pandemic data
...deadly, new challenge: COVID-19. As the coronavirus spread, Dimagi used funding from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Johnson & Johnson’s Center for Health Worker Innovation, and the Open Road Alliance...
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...New solutions for global challenges: Those at the frontline of vulnerability need new capacity to address global challenges. Technology & data capacity: Organizations need new forms of access to the...
An open call to technology companies: Do More, Know Less
...users worldwide. Private companies need to reassess their fundamental assumptions about the use of our personal data to promote their commercial interests and realign their practices to shared social good....
Foundation awards $5.7 million to support vulnerable communities as pandemic surges
...analysis to policymakers and the public. The 21 grants are the latest of the Foundation’s COVID-19 response and community support commitments in 2020, totaling $14.7 million since March. More than...
AidData's Ben Yishay discusses impact of $1.1M award to support their GeoQuery program
...will come through building out of GeoQuery’s infrastructure, external outreach and trainings, and the addition of new datasets. Some of these new users, based in poorer countries, will have experience...
May 8, 1968: The Baseball Encyclopedia becomes first book with computer typesetting
...players – would have required at least five years of manual computing if done without a computer. Instead, the actual processing of the data was completed in just over a...