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United States, North America
Develop standards and low-cost protections for irrigation controllers, sensors, drones, and farm equipment that may become attack vectors.
economics-resources
north-america
united-states
securing
agricultural
iot
devices
against
large-scale
compromise
develop
standards
low-cost
without
irrigation
diesel
health-biology
low
Develop standards, sensing, urban design, and public awareness interventions to reduce disruption of insects, birds, turtles, and nocturnal ecosystems.
mathematics-logic
measuring
ecological
impacts
night-time
artificial
lighting
develop
standards
sensing
urban
public
global-unspecified
climate-environment
society-governance
reduce
social-civic-problems
heat
Create maintenance standards, inspection systems, repair financing, and accountability mechanisms where elevator outages isolate elderly and disabled residents.
social-civic-problems
asia
china
elevator
preventing
failures
high-rise
affordable
housing
create
maintenance
standards
inspection
society-governance
systems
public
technology-computing
intergenerational
Develop standards, tracking, community oversight, vehicle financing, and safe-route models for children traveling through informal transport networks.
social-civic-problems
africa
kenya
transport
safe
school
regions
formal
bus
systems
develop
standards
tracking
society-governance
informal
public
technology-computing
economics-resources
Create alternatives, extraction monitoring, ecological safeguards, and procurement standards to reduce river erosion, coastal damage, and illegal sand mining.
mathematics-logic
asia
india
sand
sustainable
sourcing
construction
booms
create
alternatives
extraction
monitoring
ecological
climate-environment
society-governance
global-unspecified
african
coastal
Develop right-to-repair standards and business models for agricultural machinery, medical devices, appliances, and electronics in markets dependent on imports.
health-biology
africa
kenya
devices
making
repair
manuals
spare
parts
available
essential
develop
right-to-repair
mathematics-logic
might
local
actors
global-unspecified
open
United States, North America
Develop audit methods, legal standards, and consumer remedies when data-driven pricing disadvantages people due to proxies for race, disability, gender, or poverty.
technology-computing
north-america
united-states
pricing
preventing
algorithmic
discrimination
insurance
develop
audit
methods
legal
standards
people
global-unspecified
philosophy-ethics
whether
climate-environment
Build sustainable training, remote interpretation, quality standards, and funding models for healthcare, courts, education, and emergency communication.
social-civic-problems
asia
india
interpretation
improving
access
sign-language
public
services
build
sustainable
training
remote
society-governance
global-unspecified
designing
african
governance
open
South Africa, Africa
Create testing, accountability, and escalation standards for systems that perform poorly for accents, dialects, code-switching, and minority languages.
society-governance
africa
south-africa
preventing
language
discrimination
ai-enabled
customer
service
create
testing
accountability
escalation
systems
technology-computing
public
intergenerational
open
Develop interoperable standards, open contracting, data portability, and technical capacity so public agencies retain control over essential digital systems.
technology-computing
digital
preventing
procurement
lock-in
proprietary
infrastructure
develop
interoperable
standards
open
society-governance
systems
public
data
technical
climate-environment
Build standards for need assessment, model evaluation, contracts, oversight, appeals, and vendor accountability when governments procure automated systems.
society-governance
creating
accountable
procurement
public
sector
build
standards
need
assessment
model
systems
technology-computing
across
accountability
open
intergenerational
Design interfaces, standards, and literacy interventions that prevent generated citations, fabricated experts, and confident falsehoods from being mistaken for evidence.
social-civic-problems
preventing
systems
laundering
false
authority
design
interfaces
standards
literacy
interventions
technology-computing
society-governance
philosophy-ethics
global-unspecified
whether
prevent
resolved
open
United Kingdom, Europe
Create enforceable design standards that prevent manipulative engagement, data extraction, profiling, and advertising in products marketed to children.
technology-computing
europe
united-kingdom
children
protecting
algorithmic
exploitation
educational
apps
create
enforceable
design
standards
global-unspecified
economics-resources
social-civic-problems
philosophy-ethics
whether
Develop standards and tools that detect manipulation, preserve provenance, and improve reproducibility across increasingly complex scientific workflows.
society-governance
scientific
authenticating
images
data
public
research
develop
standards
tools
detect
systems
technology-computing
global-unspecified
trust
open
Colombia, South America
Create affordable slope monitoring, drainage, building standards, relocation alternatives, and community warning systems for rapidly growing hillside settlements.
social-civic-problems
south-america
colombia
hillside
reducing
landslide
risks
informal
development
create
affordable
slope
monitoring
systems
society-governance
settlements
climate-environment
economics-resources
Develop safer battery chemistries, charging systems, standards, and emergency-response methods as electric mobility and backup batteries proliferate in crowded neighborhoods.
social-civic-problems
asia
china
reducing
battery-fire
risk
dense
urban
housing
develop
safer
battery
chemistries
systems
climate-environment
methods
society-governance
technology-computing
Build low-cost standards, inverters, storage coordination, and incentive systems that enable high rooftop-solar adoption without destabilizing distribution grids.
climate-environment
asia
india
systems
grid
integration
millions
unreliable
rooftop
solar
build
low-cost
standards
society-governance
technology-computing
economics-resources
global-unspecified
mathematics-logic
open
Brazil, South America
Develop point-of-care diagnostics for invasive and drug-resistant fungal infections, especially among immunocompromised patients in regions lacking advanced laboratories.
health-biology
south-america
brazil
diagnostics
fungal
infections
low-cost
resistant
standard
treatment
develop
point-of-care
invasive
global-unspecified
whether
philosophy-ethics
haven
mathematics-logic
Standard trauma-focused therapy models are frequently misaligned with the cultural frameworks of displaced populations from Global, reducing engagement and effectiveness among refugees receiving care abroad.
climate-environment
therapy
displaced
populations
building
culturally
adapted
protocols
standard
trauma-focused
global-unspecified
whether
philosophy-ethics
Public procurement processes in Nigeria lack standardized open-data reporting, making it difficult for civil society and auditors to detect overpricing, collusion, or misallocation of public funds.
society-governance
africa
nigeria
public
procurement
increasing
transparency
contracts
processes
lack
standardized
open-data
institutions
systems
technology-computing
global-unspecified
whether
philosophy-ethics