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Develop lower-waste consumables, chemical substitution, energy-efficient equipment, and procurement systems without compromising scientific rigor.
climate-environment
europe
germany
reducing
environmental
footprint
laboratory
research
develop
lower-waste
consumables
chemical
substitution
systems
society-governance
technology-computing
procurement
economics-resources
Create discovery, trial, manufacturing, stockpiling, and access systems for drugs effective across viral families with pandemic potential.
health-biology
pandemic
developing
broad-spectrum
antivirals
next
create
discovery
trial
manufacturing
stockpiling
systems
technology-computing
economics-resources
society-governance
global-unspecified
mobility
ensuring
open
United States, North America
Build usable security, governance, maintenance, and incident-response practices for community-owned networks operated with limited technical staff.
society-governance
north-america
united-states
networks
securing
community
wireless
underserved
areas
build
usable
security
governance
rural
public
service
global-unspecified
economics-resources
Develop lightweight methods to protect AI deployed in vehicles, farms, factories, clinics, and sensors from extraction, poisoning, and malicious updates.
society-governance
preventing
model
theft
tampering
edge
systems
develop
lightweight
methods
protect
technology-computing
climate-environment
quantifying
economics-resources
ensuring
safety
open
Brazil, South America
Develop low-burden reporting, threat-sharing, insurance, legal, and recovery systems so small firms disclose attacks without fear of ruinous consequences.
technology-computing
south-america
brazil
reporting
small
improving
cyber
incident
businesses
develop
low-burden
threat-sharing
insurance
climate-environment
global-unspecified
society-governance
systems
economics-resources
Develop early intervention, platform accountability, youth support, and research methods that reduce recruitment without criminalizing vulnerable communities.
economics-resources
recruitment
preventing
online
violent
exploitation
networks
develop
early
intervention
platform
safe
low
social-civic-problems
communities
quantum
public
Develop technical and legal systems that enable multi-country research collaboration without exposing patients to reidentification or discriminatory misuse.
health-biology
research
privacy-preserving
health-data
sharing
rare
disease
develop
technical
legal
systems
society-governance
philosophy-ethics
global-unspecified
mathematics-logic
technology-computing
whether
economics-resources
open
United States, North America
Develop standards and low-cost protections for irrigation controllers, sensors, drones, and farm equipment that may become attack vectors.
economics-resources
north-america
united-states
securing
agricultural
iot
devices
against
large-scale
compromise
develop
standards
low-cost
without
irrigation
diesel
health-biology
low
Create affordable security monitoring, backup, staff training, and recovery systems for hospitals without dedicated cybersecurity teams.
technology-computing
cybersecurity
hospitals
detecting
cyberattacks
small
service
disruption
create
affordable
security
monitoring
systems
health-biology
economics-resources
society-governance
global-unspecified
whether
open
Central African Republic, Africa
Develop approaches for safeguarding wildlife, rangers, local communities, and habitats where conflict undermines governance and fuels extraction.
society-governance
africa
central-african-republic
biodiversity
protecting
conflict-affected
conservation
landscapes
develop
approaches
safeguarding
wildlife
rangers
economics-resources
communities
ecosystems
local
climate-environment
open
South Africa, Africa
Develop lawful anti-poaching technologies and intelligence systems that protect wildlife without militarizing conservation or harming local communities.
society-governance
africa
south-africa
preventing
poaching
enabled
cheap
drones
encrypted
coordination
develop
lawful
anti-poaching
systems
communities
economics-resources
technology-computing
public
Develop mapping, protection, restoration, anchoring, wastewater, and fisheries management systems for seagrass ecosystems.
climate-environment
africa
tanzania
seagrass
restoring
meadows
under
coastal
development
pressure
develop
mapping
protection
systems
society-governance
economics-resources
climate
migration
open
Brazil, South America
Develop enforceable systems that ensure indigenous peoples and local communities share in benefits from commercial use of biological resources and knowledge.
mathematics-logic
south-america
brazil
creating
fair
benefit-sharing
bioprospecting
develop
enforceable
systems
ensure
indigenous
peoples
society-governance
communities
economics-resources
public
technology-computing
Develop integrated fisheries, water-flow, pollution, invasive-species, and habitat strategies for ecosystems supporting millions of people.
climate-environment
asia
bangladesh
safeguarding
freshwater
fish
diversity
megadeltas
develop
integrated
fisheries
water-flow
pollution
ecosystems
economics-resources
protection
global-unspecified
philosophy-ethics
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 detection, enforcement, platform, customs, and demand-reduction systems for illegal wildlife sales shifting into encrypted and cross-border digital channels.
economics-resources
wildlife
reducing
trade
risks
online
marketplaces
develop
detection
enforcement
platform
systems
society-governance
technology-computing
digital
corruption
resilient
global-unspecified
open
Papua New Guinea, Oceania
Create scalable combinations of eDNA, acoustic sensing, imaging, community science, and AI that produce trustworthy species data in under-surveyed ecosystems.
climate-environment
oceania
papua-new-guinea
biodiversity
mapping
regions
few
taxonomists
create
scalable
combinations
edna
acoustic
economics-resources
ecosystems
protection
society-governance
species
open
New Zealand, Oceania
Develop targeted eradication and containment methods that protect native species, food systems, and local communities from unintended harms.
mathematics-logic
oceania
new-zealand
species
controlling
invasive
small
islands
ecological
side
effects
develop
targeted
methods
economics-resources
climate-environment
communities
systems
open
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
Develop monitoring approaches that work despite persistent cloud cover, fragmented enforcement, local economic dependence, and rapidly changing extraction routes.
technology-computing
africa
democratic-republic-of-the-congo
detecting
illegal
logging
cloud-covered
tropical
forests
develop
monitoring
approaches
work
society-governance
economics-resources
forest
science-space
systems
Develop drainage, runway materials, power backup, communications, and financing approaches for airports essential to island connectivity and disaster response.
climate-environment
oceania
samoa
island
climate-resilient
airport
infrastructure
small
states
develop
drainage
runway
materials
communities
remote
economics-resources
public
society-governance