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  • The state's emergency child-care centers kept COVID-19 in check. Here's how

    September 22, 2020 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Emergency child-care centers in Massachusetts have recorded only a small handful of cases of COVID-19 due to strict adherence to safety measures. Most notably, the centers have implemented a combination of contact tracing and mandatory two-week quarantine for anyone who could have been exposed, which applies to all school personnel, students, teachers, and family members.

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  • Can an Algorithm Help Solve Political Paralysis?

    September 18, 2020 |

    Scientific American |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Citizen assemblies bring together residents for in-depth discussions about solutions to social issues. This alternative form of democracy led to policy changes in many countries, including legalizing abortion in Ireland. In the UK, an algorithm was applied to form a 110-person “climate assembly.” In a multistage process, the algorithm selected a representative sample of the U.K.’s population, sometimes oversampling harder to reach groups to ensure inclusion. A small stipend was also offered to offset costs for people with lower incomes. The group submitted a final report with climate policy recommendations.

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  • The Wayback Machine and Cloudflare Want to Backstop the Web

    September 17, 2020 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine crawls and caches websites to preserve a history of deleted pages. The Wayback Machine has archived a large amount of the public web over the past two decades, adding more than a billion URLs a day to its databases. The archive has over 468 billion web pages in total, and more than 45 petabytes of data. A new partnership with the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, which caches a static version of websites, has had promising results. Powering Cloudflare’s work with the Wayback Machine’s interface has allowed them to find more sites to archive.

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  • Health Board: Can't we all just get along?

    September 15, 2020 |

    The Boulder Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Teton County, Montana

    When the coronavirus pandemic complicated matters for local government, the Teton County public health office devised a process to enact state mandate that was effective, transparent, and led to rational decision-making. Although discord continued to a degree, the model is still providing guidance to Jefferson County as officials determine "how to best serve the public health interests of its residents."

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  • When contact tracing works, families, friends and co-workers avoid infection

    September 11, 2020 |

    WCNC-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Health officials in North Carolina have shown that contact tracing can successfully identify those who have been exposed to COVID-19. The efforts of the contact tracers in one county resulted in 35 people being quarantined after an exposure to the virus during a child's birthday party, however that was only possible because of those individuals "were willing to be open and honest and forthcoming."

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  • Women Data Scientists Created GPS-Driven App to Help Kenya Keep Covid-19 Numbers Low

    September 11, 2020 |

    Zenger News |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Women in GIS Kenya created a digital tool that helps the government track the number of Covid-19 cases, recoveries, and confirmed deaths, as well as the number of tests administered. The online database combines a survey that assesses a person's symptoms with cellphone GPS data to create a map of current hot spots and recommend treatment locations. The government credits the tool, which can also predict high-risk areas vulnerable to future outbreaks, with helping to keep Kenya's COVID-19-related deaths relatively low compared to other countries. The tool is popular among younger, tech-savvy populations.

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  • Why Pennsylvania is ground zero for mail-in voting debate

    September 04, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Learning from the failures of the 2020 Pennsylvania primary, where a sharp increase in mail-in voting led to a 2-week delay in certifying election results and many ballots being invalidated, officials introduced a bill to address those problems. Anticipating 3 million mail-in presidential election ballots, the bill would allow mailed in ballots to be opened before election day, which is currently prohibited. The bill would also notify voters and allow them to prove their identity in the case of signature mismatches. While officials are optimistic, there is not much time left to pass and implement the bill.

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  • An Ohio county had the second-highest infant mortality rate in the nation. Then they started listening to Black moms.

    September 03, 2020 |

    The Lily |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    A local collaborative in Hamilton County, Ohio has reduced infant mortality by initiating regional educational campaigns and creating “sacred spaces” where Black women meet and learn how to become empowered to "tell the government what pregnant Black women needed." The program, which focused on three pilot neighborhoods and included leaders from the largest maternity systems in the county, resulted in the county recording the "lowest levels of infant mortality ever."

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  • Interest in Community Police Watch Training Soars as Courses Go Online

    September 02, 2020 |

    San Francisco Public Press |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Groups in the Bay Area that have successfully sought to have police disciplined for misconduct and won new police-accountability policies have turned their form of organized monitoring into a training platform for protesters nationwide. Responding to widespread Black Lives Matter protests, groups like Berkeley Copwatch and Wecopwatch use online education to teach hundreds of activists nationwide how to use videotape archives to systematically document abuses, and how to perform the work of legal observers at protests. Those activities are meant to act as deterrents to abuse.

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  • How They Did It: Collaborating Across a Continent on Latin America's Untold Migrant Stories

    September 02, 2020 |

    Global Investigative Journalism Network |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    A cross-border collaborative and investigative journalism effort brought 24 media organizations in 14 countries and more than 40 media professionals to report on the migrants from Asia and Africa who travel every year through Latin America to reach the United States and Canada. Although data was often hard to obtain, an award-winning migration reporter who was not part of the project said it "succeeded in humanizing the migrants, in part because of the multi-formatted way in which the stories were published."

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