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Develop offline-capable, multilingual, trusted systems for issuing alerts, gathering local conditions, and coordinating response when normal communications fail. The challenge is especially acute in informal settlements, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.
society-governance
africa
nigeria
informal
settlements
reliable
last-mile
emergency
communication
develop
offline-capable
multilingual
trusted
economics-resources
communities
public
local
worker
Develop delivery systems, manufacturing, payment models, and governance that move gene therapies beyond rare diseases and wealthy health systems.
society-governance
delivery
diseases
safe
equitable
gene-therapy
common
systems
develop
manufacturing
payment
climate-environment
governance
health-biology
technology-computing
economics-resources
ensuring
models
Create interoperable authentication systems for disaster alerts delivered through mobile networks, radio, social platforms, and public displays.
society-governance
asia
japan
alerts
verifying
emergency
against
spoofing
misinformation
create
interoperable
authentication
systems
public
technology-computing
reliable
global-unspecified
quantum
Develop land-use, early-warning, crop protection, compensation, corridor, and livelihood systems that reduce conflict in shared landscapes.
economics-resources
africa
kenya
conflict
reducing
human-elephant
harming
communities
wildlife
develop
land-use
early-warning
crop
systems
society-governance
climate-environment
global-unspecified
african
Develop fair insurance, road safety, earnings stability, algorithmic transparency, and worker representation for app-mediated delivery riders.
technology-computing
asia
india
safety
delivery
improving
informal
motorcycle
economies
develop
fair
insurance
road
economics-resources
worker
settlements
protection
society-governance
Develop systems that reduce diversion, duplication, spoilage, and exclusion while protecting the privacy and safety of aid recipients.
society-governance
africa
sudan
tracking
humanitarian
supplies
last-mile
delivery
develop
systems
reduce
diversion
duplication
technology-computing
safety
reliable
ensuring
last
open
United States, North America
Create shared infrastructure, sanitation, deposit, tracking, and business models that make reuse work across fragmented retailers and delivery systems.
economics-resources
north-america
united-states
improving
reverse
logistics
reusable
packaging
create
shared
infrastructure
sanitation
deposit
systems
society-governance
technology-computing
ensuring
climate-environment
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 rigorous methods to distinguish symbolic consultation from processes that genuinely alter budgets, policy, service delivery, and power relations.
society-governance
measuring
whether
participatory
governance
changes
outcomes
develop
rigorous
methods
distinguish
consultation
local
might
actors
public
economics-resources
evidence
Develop methods to quantify livelihoods, health, culture, land, and social losses caused by drought, salinization, erosion, and chronic heat.
climate-environment
measuring
loss
damage
household
level
slow-onset
disasters
develop
methods
quantify
climate
economics-resources
global-unspecified
health-biology
health
whether
relocation
Develop land-use, compensation, farming, and hydrological strategies that allow rivers to absorb floods without simply eliminating rural livelihoods.
mathematics-logic
europe
netherlands
restoring
floodplains
while
maintaining
food
production
develop
land-use
compensation
farming
climate-environment
economics-resources
global-unspecified
urban
rural
Develop enforceable, economically viable protections for construction workers, delivery workers, street vendors, farm laborers, and factory workers exposed to dangerous heat.
economics-resources
asia
india
workers
heat
protecting
extreme
informal
employment
develop
enforceable
economically
viable
mathematics-logic
local
might
actors
global-unspecified
Create restoration programs that improve coastal protection and carbon storage without excluding local fishers from traditional access and livelihoods.
climate-environment
asia
indonesia
restoring
mangroves
while
protecting
customary
fishing
rights
create
restoration
programs
economics-resources
coastal
communities
local
ecosystems
Design legal and social systems for relocating communities exposed to erosion, flooding, drought, or sea-level rise while preserving rights, livelihoods, and identity.
climate-environment
oceania
fiji
managing
climate-driven
relocation
land
dispossession
design
legal
social
systems
relocating
society-governance
economics-resources
communities
climate
coastal
Develop affordable kiln upgrades, alternative fuels, financing, and enforcement systems for fragmented brick industries that cause severe emissions and air pollution.
climate-environment
asia
bangladesh
air-pollution
brick
decarbonizing
kilns
destroying
livelihoods
develop
affordable
kiln
upgrades
alternative
systems
air
society-governance
global-unspecified
open
Argentina, South America
Develop affordable manure management, runoff monitoring, and nutrient-recovery systems for farms too large for household methods but too small for industrial treatment.
climate-environment
south-america
argentina
runoff
farms
stopping
nutrient
medium-scale
livestock
too
develop
affordable
manure
systems
society-governance
methods
global-unspecified
monitoring
Establish practical measurement methods and interventions for microplastics moving from rivers and sediments into fish, crops, livestock, and human diets.
climate-environment
tracking
microplastic
movement
freshwater
food
systems
establish
practical
measurement
methods
society-governance
human
economics-resources
assessing
reducing
real
time
Map and govern seasonal livestock routes so roads, farms, conservation zones, and private enclosures do not trigger conflict or livestock losses.
economics-resources
asia
mongolia
protecting
pastoralist
mobility
corridors
land
fragmentation
livestock
map
govern
seasonal
wildlife
protected
global-unspecified
reserves
reducing
Develop restoration models that reduce emissions and fire risk while providing viable incomes for communities dependent on drained peatland agriculture.
economics-resources
asia
indonesia
restoring
degraded
peatlands
harming
local
livelihoods
develop
restoration
models
reduce
communities
social-civic-problems
might
actors
remote
Build ethical, affordable systems to monitor animal handlers, farms, markets, and wildlife interfaces for pathogens with pandemic potential before sustained human transmission begins.
philosophy-ethics
asia
vietnam
interfaces
continuous
surveillance
zoonotic
spillover
livestock
build
ethical
affordable
systems
society-governance
wildlife
detecting
health-biology