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Virtual Assistant: a 3-D avatar, the best classmate for deaf students

Yanivis Izaguirre

June 20, 2015 |

The Irish Times |

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Response Location: Honduras

In Honduras, tens of thousands of people have hearing disabilities. The National Autonomous University of Honduras has developed software that converts spoken language into an avatar on the computer who signs for the hearing impaired. Teachers in classrooms can teach hearing impaired students with this new software.

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Depressed? Try Therapy Without the Therapist

Tina Rosenberg

June 19, 2015 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Australia

MoodGYM is an online program targeted to help those suffering from depression for whom it is a challenge to access therapy because of location or the stigma it carries. Essentially a therapy session in your pocket, the program allows users to access help at little to no cost, regardless of where they are or what time of day it is.

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At Cedars-Sinai, technology spurs improved, lower cost care

Rebecca Plevin

May 13, 2015 |

Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

One challenge of the United States’ health care system involves keeping costs down while simultaneously improving the level of quality care. Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles has adopted electronic medical records in accordance with the Choosing Wisely campaign, which offers guidelines on different tests and treatments to reduce wasteful or harmful ones for patients. The electronic medical records have helped doctors by alerting which prescriptions to avoid, and have overall reduced health care costs by $4 million.

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What if we prescribed video games, and not Ritalin, to treat ADHD?

Greg Toppo

May 11, 2015 |

Bright Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Game inventors have created a new game to help students who suffer from ADHD and other mental problems develop and stimulate their brains in a safer, more targeted way than normal medicines.

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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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Five Cheap Ways Tech Is Transforming Classrooms

Alex Madison

May 06, 2015 |

Bright Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Low budget schools across the U.S. are having students use their smartphones as learning tools inside and outside the classroom. At no extra cost they can incorporate technology into the curriculum through a myriad of applications, from homework reminder apps to free cloud document platforms like Google Docs.

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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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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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