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Create workplace design, hiring, training, support, and anti-discrimination practices that recognize varied strengths and needs without forced masking.
economics-resources
oceania
australia
reducing
barriers
employment
autistic
adults
create
workplace
design
hiring
training
society-governance
gender
based
violence
reporting
Develop documentation, cross-border coordination, and legal-support systems that prevent children from being denied nationality, education, healthcare, and protection.
social-civic-problems
asia
malaysia
children
improving
legal
recognition
stateless
develop
documentation
cross-border
coordination
legal-support
systems
society-governance
education
global-unspecified
whether
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
open
United States, North America
Develop navigation, staffing, station design, payment, safety, and communication systems that make transit usable beyond physical wheelchair access.
society-governance
north-america
united-states
transit
building
inclusive
public
sensory
cognitive
disabilities
develop
navigation
staffing
systems
technology-computing
social-civic-problems
access
informal
open
Mexico, North America
Ensure older adults, disabled people, rural residents, and undocumented groups can access benefits when governments shift from cash to digital channels.
society-governance
north-america
mexico
preventing
financial
exclusion
digitization
welfare
payments
ensure
older
adults
disabled
digital
technology-computing
identity
access
rural
Create sustainable community care, pensions, housing, health, mobility, and digital-access systems for countries aging before becoming high-income.
social-civic-problems
asia
thailand
aging
countries
supporting
populations
middle-income
create
sustainable
community
care
pensions
systems
society-governance
global-unspecified
health-biology
economics-resources
Develop childcare, eldercare, water, transport, health, and social-protection systems that reduce the hidden labor limiting women's education and income.
social-civic-problems
asia
india
reducing
unpaid
care
burdens
local
service
design
develop
childcare
eldercare
society-governance
systems
economics-resources
health-biology
climate-environment
Create inclusive warning, transport, shelter, communication, and continuity systems designed with disabled people rather than added as an afterthought.
society-governance
asia
japan
systems
disabled
people
accessible
evacuation
during
disasters
create
inclusive
warning
technology-computing
climate-environment
economics-resources
social-civic-problems
global-unspecified
Develop wheelchairs, prosthetics, hearing aids, and mobility devices that withstand heat, humidity, dust, rough roads, and limited repair networks.
climate-environment
africa
uganda
devices
affordable
assistive
adapted
tropical
climates
develop
wheelchairs
prosthetics
hearing
global-unspecified
philosophy-ethics
whether
haven
technology-computing
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
Create data, enforcement, housing, and tourism policies that manage short-term rental growth without harming legitimate small hosts or local economies.
social-civic-problems
europe
portugal
short-term
strengthening
city-level
capacity
regulate
rentals
create
data
enforcement
housing
society-governance
global-unspecified
african
local
technology-computing
open
Guatemala, North America
Design participation processes that use visual, oral, local-language, and offline methods instead of relying on written notices and digital portals.
social-civic-problems
north-america
guatemala
making
public
consultation
accessible
low-literacy
communities
design
participation
processes
visual
society-governance
local
might
digital
actors
open
Mexico, North America
Develop fair consultation, compensation, benefit-sharing, ecological assessment, and appeals systems for large solar, wind, and transmission projects.
climate-environment
north-america
mexico
resolving
conflicts
over
renewable-energy
land
acquisition
develop
fair
consultation
compensation
society-governance
systems
making
global-unspecified
philosophy-ethics
Identify and counter structural barriers such as violence, unpaid care work, party gatekeeping, financing, and tokenization in local political participation.
society-governance
asia
india
local
increasing
women
meaningful
representation
government
identify
counter
structural
barriers
economics-resources
actors
mathematics-logic
before
might
Create understandable, revocable, culturally appropriate consent and benefit-sharing systems for data gathered from communities by governments, researchers, and firms.
society-governance
consent
data
building
mechanisms
community
collection
create
understandable
revocable
culturally
systems
technology-computing
economics-resources
global-unspecified
climate-environment
philosophy-ethics
whether
Develop earlier warning, transparent restructuring, and social-protection mechanisms that reduce the impact of debt crises on essential public services.
society-governance
africa
zambia
debt
managing
public-interest
risks
sovereign
distress
develop
earlier
warning
transparent
public
services
economics-resources
governance
safe
Create transparent allocation, beneficiary selection, monitoring, and complaint systems for local funds vulnerable to patronage and informal coercion.
society-governance
asia
nepal
funds
preventing
elite
capture
community
development
create
transparent
allocation
beneficiary
systems
informal
economics-resources
settlements
social-civic-problems
Develop humanitarian, service-delivery, accountability, and peacebuilding approaches where official institutions have limited territorial authority.
society-governance
africa
somalia
improving
local
governance
areas
controlled
non-state
actors
develop
humanitarian
service-delivery
public
registries
accountability
interest
institutions
Develop simplified filings, translation, legal aid, scheduling, remote access, and case-tracking systems for people unable to navigate formal courts.
society-governance
asia
india
legal
reducing
exclusion
caused
inaccessible
court
procedures
develop
simplified
filings
systems
technology-computing
global-unspecified
whether
philosophy-ethics
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
