World Solve

Create scalable combinations of eDNA, acoustic sensing, imaging, community science, and AI that produce trustworthy species data in under-surveyed ecosystems.

Develop practical methods to map water, sewer, power, gas, and telecom networks where records are incomplete and excavation is dangerous.

Create practical education programs where students map risks, test solutions, and contribute to community resilience rather than only learning abstract climate facts.

Create practical risk models and investment plans for fast-growing cities that lack detailed maps, weather records, asset inventories, or technical staff.

Develop mapping, treatment, and enforcement strategies where homes, workshops, tanneries, and small factories discharge into the same unmanaged drainage networks.

Map and mitigate heavy metals, flame retardants, acids, and other pollutants leaching from informal electronics-processing sites into drinking-water aquifers.

Map and govern seasonal livestock routes so roads, farms, conservation zones, and private enclosures do not trigger conflict or livestock losses.

Develop low-cost ways to map and manage rising soil salinity before farms become economically unviable due to over-irrigation, seawater intrusion, or poor drainage.

Develop surveillance and affordable safety protocols for dialysis delivered in fragmented private and informal systems, where contamination and equipment reuse may go undocumented.

Illegal and unreported fishing vessels operating near Peru's waters are difficult to track due to limited satellite coverage and insufficient coordination between regional maritime authorities.

Achieving farm-scale mapping of mycorrhizal networks and soil carbon at meaningful scale demands simultaneous progress in fundamental research, engineering integration and socio-technical systems that work for low- and middle-income settings. Existing efforts remain fragmented relative to the magnitude of the challenge.