Develop equitable clinical, laboratory, telemedicine, and data-sharing pathways that shorten diagnostic odysseys without requiring centralized high-cost sequencing.
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Securing community wireless networks in underserved areas
open
United States, North America
Build usable security, governance, maintenance, and incident-response practices for community-owned networks operated with limited technical staff.
Preventing model theft and tampering in edge AI systems
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Global, Global
Develop lightweight methods to protect AI deployed in vehicles, farms, factories, clinics, and sensors from extraction, poisoning, and malicious updates.
Reducing fraud in digital land-registry systems
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Ghana, Africa
Secure identity, transaction authorization, audit trails, public verification, and dispute mechanisms for land registries targeted by organized fraud.
Building cyber capacity for local governments
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Kenya, Africa
Develop shared services, workforce pathways, procurement support, tabletop exercises, and affordable tooling for municipalities responsible for essential services.
Verifying emergency alerts against spoofing and misinformation
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Japan, Asia
Create interoperable authentication systems for disaster alerts delivered through mobile networks, radio, social platforms, and public displays.
Improving cyber incident reporting for small businesses
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Brazil, South America
Develop low-burden reporting, threat-sharing, insurance, legal, and recovery systems so small firms disclose attacks without fear of ruinous consequences.
Securing low-cost medical devices used outside hospitals
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China, Asia
Create update, authentication, safety, and procurement standards for connected diagnostics and monitoring devices used in homes and clinics.
Preventing online recruitment into violent exploitation networks
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Global, Global
Develop early intervention, platform accountability, youth support, and research methods that reduce recruitment without criminalizing vulnerable communities.
Secure digital evidence collection for local police and courts
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India, Asia
Develop systems that preserve chain of custody, privacy, authenticity, and access in jurisdictions with uneven digital capacity and public trust.
Reducing software supply-chain vulnerabilities in public procurement
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European Union, Europe
Create verification, dependency management, secure update, open-source support, and contracting standards for software bought by public institutions.
Protecting activists from commercial spyware
open
Mexico, North America
Develop detection, remediation, legal accountability, secure-device access, and emergency support systems for targeted civil-society actors.
Securing municipal water systems from cyber-physical attacks
open
United States, North America
Create accessible cybersecurity, segmentation, monitoring, emergency operations, and workforce tools for water utilities with aging operational technology.
Privacy-preserving health-data sharing for rare disease research
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Global, Global
Develop technical and legal systems that enable multi-country research collaboration without exposing patients to reidentification or discriminatory misuse.
Securing satellite data used by disaster-response agencies
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Global, Global
Build authentication, redundancy, anomaly detection, and governance systems that prevent manipulation or denial of critical Earth-observation data.
Post-quantum migration for public digital infrastructure
open
Global, Global
Create practical inventories, cryptographic transition plans, testing frameworks, and procurement standards for government systems vulnerable to future quantum attacks.
Detecting cyberattacks on small hospitals before service disruption
open
Global, Global
Create affordable security monitoring, backup, staff training, and recovery systems for hospitals without dedicated cybersecurity teams.
Measuring ecological impacts of night-time artificial lighting
open
Global, Global
Develop standards, sensing, urban design, and public awareness interventions to reduce disruption of insects, birds, turtles, and nocturnal ecosystems.
Monitoring biodiversity effects of renewable-energy expansion
open
Global, Global
Build long-term evidence and mitigation systems for impacts of wind, solar, transmission, hydropower, and battery-mineral extraction on ecosystems.
Safeguarding freshwater fish diversity in megadeltas
open
Bangladesh, Asia
Develop integrated fisheries, water-flow, pollution, invasive-species, and habitat strategies for ecosystems supporting millions of people.
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