At the University of Sydney, sustainability is taught and researched with the clear goal to make a difference in the world. Manfred Lenzen, professor of ...
Rap helps sell the SDGs
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are instrumental in building resilience and making the world more sustainable, but it is sometimes hard to ...
CityWorks (X)po to launch new fellowship program
Connecting placemakers to increase opportunities for all involved, CityWorks (X)po is going to launch a new fellowship program. Fellows accepted into the ...
Chicago finally close to being the City of Learning
When Mayor Rahm Emanuel launched the Chicago City of Learning online platform (CCOL) four years ago, it was to offer extracurricular activities to ...
AI research ramping up in Australia through 3A Institute
The Australian National University (ANU) has announced that the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance (3A) Institute will be established within the university’s ...
Intel study shows what it takes to get people used to self-driving cars
As a large majority of people still feels uncomfortable letting go of the control of a car, getting people to travel in self-driving vehicles still ...
Microsoft takes unused TV channels to provide internet to rural areas
Microsoft wants to harness the unused channels between television broadcasts to help rural America get access to the internet. The goal is to connect ...
Crowdsourcing project uses satellite images to identify slavery sites
In the framework of a crowdsourcing project, online volunteers use machine learning algorithms to identify slavery sites such as brick kilns in South Asia ...
Desert winds reduce air pollution in China
A group of researchers around Yang Yang from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, in Washington State, US, studied simulated wind and dust patterns ...
Handbook of Cyber-Development, Cyber-Democracy, and Cyber-Defense
Editors Elias G. Carayannis, David F. J. Campbell, and Marios Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos have compiled a list of articles by researchers, industry leaders ...
