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The CloudFisher collects drinking water from fog without requiring energy. As this video explains, it is quickly installed, is extremely low-maintenance and all materials used are food safe.
Resources - 03/29/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
Hajira Attah wanted to be the first in her family to go to college but she had a 1.7 GPA and low SAT scores. All eight schools she applied to said no. Then she heard about Johnson C. Smith University. It was willing to take a risk on Hajira. How did...
Resources - 03/28/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
For cities and companies involved in new construction or site transformations, areas with unstable or poor quality power can cause problems and diesel and other similar generators can add another one: expense. Read discussion from Council Lead...
Resources - 03/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Built environment, Energy
Demand for clean, energy-efficient renewable energy is growing in several fields, including supplying power for communications systems. When traditional hybrid renewable power solutions can't always meet customers' needs, integrated hybrid power...
Resources - 03/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Energy, Telecommunications
The development of highly efficient LEDs in the 21st century is showing itself to be a very positive game-changer, and the regulatory system is doing its best to keep pace with this technology and facilitate its deployment. Read the white paper from...
Resources - 03/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Connectivity
Reducing the amount of waste in landfills is a goal many are working to achieve. But how are zero waste claims validated? Read the white paper from Council Lead Partner UL to learn more about the issue, and for an overview on waste diversion,...
Resources - 03/27/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Waste management
The World Health Organization estimates more than 1.7 billion people suffer from a range of mental health conditions. Untreated, those conditions can unravel lives. Yet the social stigma attached to seeking help for emotional and psychological...
Resources - 03/24/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Wellness
There are not enough pediatricians to care for the world’s children. Pediatric subspecialists in particular are in short supply globally. Read in the case study linked below from Council Lead Partner Cisco about a pilot in a small state in Northeast...
Resources - 03/23/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Wellness
The urgency of congenital heart disease is an issue across the developing world. Doctors from the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. who participate in missions to Uganda needed to provide ongoing medical and technical...
Resources - 03/23/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Wellness
Connecting India to Disconnect Poverty is a project using 3G tablets and an innovative mobile application to improve the operational efficiency of microfinance institutions to support low-income borrowers. Click the Qualcomm Wireless Reach case...
Resources - 03/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
Arrow Electronics and the nonprofit organization Close the Gap are collaborating to turn used cargo containers into fully equipped digital classrooms and health clinics that can be deployed to remote areas of Africa. This video is about the first...
Resources - 03/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
Sherwood Village Senior Apartments in Salinas, California meets a growing demand for housing among low-income seniors. From its location along a public transit route to the solar panels installed on the roofs of the structures, the project embodies...
Resources - 03/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Shelter
Named after a former mayor of Portland, Oregon, the award-winning Bud Clark Commons is an innovative service center designed to provide stability to Portland's homeless. The Portland Development Commission, a Council Advisor, was one of several...
Resources - 03/20/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Shelter
More people in the world suffer from mental illness than heart-disease or cancer. And it is largely ignored. Could innovative technology solve the problem? Cornell University information science professor Tanzeem Choudhury shares insights on that in...
Resources - 03/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Wellness
Achieving the transition to "resource-smart" food systems will require better policy-making as well as a collaborative and proactive multi-stakeholder approach. Watch this UN video to see how resource-efficient technologies contribute to food...
Resources - 03/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water
One Home is a free web and mobile platform that allows anyone to search affordable housing options in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. With One Home, people can find a home that they are eligible for, share housing information with others and...
Resources - 03/19/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Shelter
In a deprived area of the U.K., a primary school has experienced an educational transformation due to the Microsoft Shape the Future Initiative in partnership with RM. Pupils, many of whom speak English as a second language, are becoming confident...
Resources - 03/16/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Upward Mobility
A collaboration between Qualcomm Wireless Reach and CINTEL has introduced wireless technology to the age-old tradition of fishing. Watch this video to learn how the ability to "fish with mobile nets" is raising productivity and increasing income in...
Resources - 03/16/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Compassionate Cities
With some of the highest poverty rates in the U .S., Rochester, New York used its IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grant in 2015 to identify ways to improve the lives of those in need. After visiting the city, IBM experts made a series of...
Resources - 03/09/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Compassionate Cities
As part of its Smarter Cities Challenge, experts from Council Lead Partner IBM went to Birmingham, Alabama to help the city tackle its 'food desert' challenges and other issues, including economic development. Watch the video for information that...
Resources - 03/09/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities, Readiness Guide Online
Category: Food and Water