Join EFF in Calling for a Full Investigation Into NSA Surveillance By Emailing Congress Today
- Meghan Neal wrote in Technology, Privacy and Policy
It’s time for a full accounting of America’s secret spying programs—and an end to unconstitutional surveillance.
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‘There’s Waldo’ and Other NSA-Inspired Kids’ Books
- Meghan Neal posted in Privacy, Technology and Creativity
Inspired by the Twitter hashtag #NSAkidsbooks that sprung up in response to NSA surveillance, an artist is re-imagining children’s book covers that mock government spying. My favorite: “Horton Hears a You.”
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GOOD Video: Chronicling Coding for GOOD
- GOOD Partnerships wrote in Technology, Education and Video
Last October, GOOD and Apollo Group announced the launch of Coding for GOOD, an opportunity to gain skills in coding and, for one lucky participant, a chance to work with us here at GOOD. The program is our effort to bridge the skills gap through real-world application.
Participants had eight weeks to take sixteen free coding lessons and submit a final project using the skills they learned. The three finalists were flown to Los Angeles for a hack-a-thon at the Google offices in January that would help determine who would earn a desk here at GOOD.
Watch the video above to learn more about the three finalists and their journeys, plus watch the live announcement naming the Coding for GOOD winner.
This content was produced by GOOD with support of Apollo Group
The Surge of Data in Healthcare
- GOOD Partnerships and Matt Chase contributed in Figures Of Progress, Technology and Healthcare
We know that data is all around us. Each time you make a web search, turn on your car or even scan your rewards card at the grocery store, data is being collected. But there’s one industry where there is a lot of data being gathered, and most of it isn’t being used.
In the healthcare sector, 80 percent of patient data is unstructured—meaning it’s not being organized in a predefined manner. The Center for Disease Control estimates 42 percent of all physicians have an electronic health record system that meets federal standards, but in the healthcare field especially there are many hand written notes and charts, which can’t be easily processed by traditional computer programs.
Hacking Energy Culture: Join a Hackathon with GOOD at MICA
- Keith Bormuth wrote in Technology, Environment and Waste
Next weekend, we’re bringing designers, developers, educators, and storytellers together to rethink our global relationship to energy. GOOD’s Hacking Energy Culture hackathon, organized by Senior UI Designer Doris Yee, will be held February 8 to February 10 at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Infographic: Improving the World, One Patent at a Time
- GOOD Partnerships and FFunction contributed in Technology, Innovation and Infographics
This content was produced by GOOD with support of IBM
Every Tuesday, thousands of patents are issued in the United States, with more than 250,000 issued in 2012. Patents recognize inventors and protect the originality of their ideas, so they can continue to create the innovations that power the world around us. From the technology you carry in your pocket to the type of flowers in your garden, they’ve all come from patents. For 20 years running, IBM has been awarded the most U.S. patents with 6,478 issued in 2013 alone. Check out some of their patents in the infographic above.
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Welcome to the Global Citizenship Project
- Mary Slosson wrote in Technology, Living and Poverty
Welcome to the brand-new GOOD Global Citizenship project, a space where people who give a damn connect around issues of global health, poverty, and development.
Whether we live in Los Angeles or Lagos, Seattle or São Paulo, we are all part of the movement to creatively engage with each other and our surroundings to improve and strengthen our communities and our world.
Our mission is to uproot the idea that knowledge flows from global North to South, and that poor equals helpless and needy. We are more alike than the way we talk about power and poverty implies.
That’s where you come in.
We are looking for a truly global community of contributors from all walks of life. We encourage anyone to contribute to this conversation by posting relevant things you’re discovering online and simply tagging them with “global citizenship.” But we’re also looking for a select group of experts to contribute original thoughts, reporting, and help us identify key stories going on in your area. If you want to get involved with this growing Global Citizen Network let us know by applying here.
We hope you can join us in the celebration, and we’ll be in touch soon with exciting new ways of working together and bringing more GOOD to life.
Answer This: Nearly 40% in the World Are Without Access to Sanitation or Toilets. What Do We Do?
- Jessica Rivera wrote in in Global Citizenship, Technology, and Toilets
It’s been three weeks since we launched the Give a Shit campaign here at GOOD, to help spread awareness around sanitation issues. We developed a mobile tool to allow people to take action on their mobile phones in helping to provide better health and sanitation to people all over the world. You can check it out here.
I joined GOOD just four weeks ago to help elevate issues within global health and development, particularly issues related to water, health, and sanitation. I’d say I’m pretty well versed in this field—I devoted the last 10 years of my education and career to it. But I’ve got to admit, I need some help answering this question.
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