World Solve

Low digital literacy among vulnerable populations in Haiti increases susceptibility to online scams, grooming, and exploitation, with few structured public education programs addressing the gap.

Current approaches to real-time digital twins of entire river basins for adaptive management either underperform under variable field conditions or generate externalities that undermine long-term sustainability and equity. Closing the gap requires coordinated advances in science, systems design and enabling institutions.

Design systems that remain usable for people with limited literacy, disability, low connectivity, language barriers, or insecure documentation. The challenge is especially acute in remote island communities, where existing solutions often assume stable institutions, high incomes, continuous connectivity, or centralized service delivery.

Secure identity, transaction authorization, audit trails, public verification, and dispute mechanisms for land registries targeted by organized fraud.

Develop systems that preserve chain of custody, privacy, authenticity, and access in jurisdictions with uneven digital capacity and public trust.

Create practical inventories, cryptographic transition plans, testing frameworks, and procurement standards for government systems vulnerable to future quantum attacks.

Develop detection, enforcement, platform, customs, and demand-reduction systems for illegal wildlife sales shifting into encrypted and cross-border digital channels.

Create voting systems that are independently usable, secure, private, and accessible across physical, sensory, cognitive, language, and digital barriers.

Develop community-owned connectivity, local-language services, digital skills, governance, and data sovereignty rather than imposing extractive technology models.

Create interfaces, authentication, support, and consumer protections that enable safe independent banking without relying on text-heavy or smartphone-only systems.

Ensure older adults, disabled people, rural residents, and undocumented groups can access benefits when governments shift from cash to digital channels.

Create sustainable community care, pensions, housing, health, mobility, and digital-access systems for countries aging before becoming high-income.

Develop interoperable standards, open contracting, data portability, and technical capacity so public agencies retain control over essential digital systems.

Design participation processes that use visual, oral, local-language, and offline methods instead of relying on written notices and digital portals.

Develop fair, administratively feasible methods for taxing digital economic activity without overwhelming countries with limited negotiating capacity.

Create secure, accessible, dispute-aware processes for converting paper and customary land claims into digital records without enabling elite capture.

Develop rights-preserving identity systems for displaced people, informal workers, and marginalized groups without creating surveillance, exclusion, or vendor lock-in.

Create secure, ethical systems for collecting, authenticating, storing, and making digital evidence usable by investigators without exposing victims.

Develop warnings, transaction safeguards, complaint systems, and financial literacy tools for people newly using mobile wallets, QR payments, and instant transfers.

Develop rapid-response, evidence-preservation, platform-accountability, legal, and psychosocial support systems for journalists targeted by coordinated abuse.