If we know where whales are, we can take targeted protective measures, such as diverting ships and reducing sources of noise. OrcaHello helps to track the animals.
Sustain AI has developed an open source AI tool to support doctors and boost cardiology aceess in Ethiopia.
Carbon-hungry AI is everywhere. We explain how to avoid AI features and why open-source software and decentralised networks can help.
Are we really breathing clean air when we sit in our garden or local park? The portable measuring device AirBeam can answer this question—and thanks to its open-source data—also protects other people from the impact of air pollution.
An award winning open-source technology is bringing safe water to remote and water-scarce communities: cheap, easy to assemble and requiring no technical know-how or expensive inputs, it helps people to access clean drinking water fast!
Cities have got a magnetic pull; everyone nowadays is moving there. The world's urban population is increasing tremendously and stats predict that by 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. So how do we manage this huge growth?
In Heidelberg and Worms, the shaded.ors app is already helping people navigate the shade. However, HeiGIT’s routing application can also be adapted for use in other cities – and has the potential to become an important tool for climate adaptation.
Some municipalities are moving quickly to make Europe digitally independent from US tech, but civil initiatives are left to fill in the gaps where there is little political will.
Getting from A to B without selling your data, subscribing to a service or costing the earth is possible with these smart, open-source navigation apps.
