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Article: News

Helping young Africans innovate for climate resilience

15 March 2023
Africa is the continent that will be most adversely affected by climate change. IIASA researchers are collaborating on Yoma OR – an ambitious project aimed at helping young people grow their digital skills as a first step on a journey from learning to earning using AI, blockchain, and crowdsourcing.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Member Organization (SSARMO)
Article: News

Driving inclusive and green urban transitions

25 January 2023
A new Horizon Europe project led by IIASA called Urban ReLeaf leverages citizen science for public sector innovation.  
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Germany Greece Latvia Netherlands Portugal United Kingdom
Article: News

Citizen science goes global

05 October 2022
On 3 October 2022, citizen science networks and practitioners from around the world welcomed the formation of the Citizen Science Global Partnership (CSGP), a newly established association which seeks to promote and advance citizen science for a sustainable world.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

A new dataset sheds light on the global impacts of mining

30 August 2022
To mitigate the adverse effects of mining activities, high-resolution maps of mining sites are necessary. In a new study, researchers created a large-scale, openly accessible, global map that almost doubles the coverage of previous datasets.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Citizen science: empowering citizens to address global challenges

25 August 2022
Citizen science is increasingly recognized as an important vehicle for democratizing science and promoting the goal of universal and equitable access to scientific data and information. IIASA researchers actively contribute to the development of this scientific approach and have recently published a primer aimed at both established and aspiring practitioners of citizen science to highlight key issues and how to address them.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Sign up for the CAMALIOT autumn data collection campaign

11 August 2022
The autumn campaign of the CAMALIOT project is underway! Add the processing power of your Android phone to help collect raw data from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to use machine-learning algorithms to improve weather-forecasting systems and win prizes.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Tapping the potential of citizen science to monitor the Sustainable Development Goals

28 July 2022
A new policy brief from the EU-funded Crowd4SDG project offers guidelines for National Statistical Offices on how to unleash the potential of citizen science in monitoring progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Making the most of crowdsourcing campaigns

20 May 2022
In recent years, crowdsourcing, which involves recruiting members of the public to help collect data, has been tremendously helpful to provide researchers with unique and rich datasets, while also engaging the public in the process of scientific discovery. In a new study, an international team of researchers explored how crowdsourcing projects can make the most effective use of volunteer contributions.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
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IIASA recognizes outstanding research contributions

10 May 2022
IIASA recently instituted a new system of awards to recognize outstanding contributions towards meeting the strategic priorities and values of the institute. We are proud to announce that five IIASA research activities have been recognized in the inaugural 2022 award cycle.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems (EM) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Water Security (WAT) Integrated Biosphere Futures (IBF) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Equity and Justice (EQU)
Article: News

Identifying global poverty from space

05 May 2022
Despite successes in reducing poverty globally in the last two decades, almost one billion people are still living without access to reliable and affordable electricity, which in turn negatively affects health and welfare, and impedes sustainable development. Knowing where these people are is crucial if aid and infrastructure are to reach them. A new IIASA-led study proposes a novel method to estimate global economic wellbeing using nighttime satellite images.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Energy, Climate, and Environment (ECE) Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions (TISS)
Article: News

Crowdsourcing campaign identifies drivers of tropical forest loss

01 April 2022
To combat forest loss in the tropics, a new study uses crowdsourcing to identify the drivers of deforestation. The resulting dataset can be used to create high-resolution maps and help policymakers apply the best protection measures.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

How can we improve biodiversity monitoring in Europe?

31 March 2022
National biodiversity monitoring programs in Europe face many challenges, according to the first report of the Europe-wide EuropaBON project released today. The analysis includes data from more than 350 experts from policy, science, and environmental protection practice. The team is also drafting a proposal for a transnational monitoring of Europe's biodiversity and ecosystems.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC)
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The drivers of tropical deforestation

25 March 2022
Deforestation continues to be one of the greatest challenges in the fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Countries all over the world have instituted protected areas, but there is still mounting human pressure on many of these areas. A new study looks at tropical deforestation and the key factors driving it.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR)
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Use your cellphone to improve weather forecasts

17 March 2022
Ahead of World Meteorological Day, you can help improve weather forecasting models with CAMALIOT, an infrastructure and app that uses GPS from smartphones to support scientific research. Join our crowdsourcing campaign on 17 March 2022  ̶  any person with access to an Android cellphone is invited to download the free app and participate.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Special podcast: Technology, Big Data, and Agrobiodiversity

07 March 2022
The big data revolution is here, but what does it mean for creating a life-supporting sustainable food system? Can technological innovation help us feed the world and protect against biodiversity loss? IIASA hosts this special episode of the Prophets, Wizards & The Quest to Value Nature podcast.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Crowdsourcing data to monitor progress on the SDGs

25 November 2021
Monitoring progress on our way to successfully achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is key to their achievement, but there are significant data gaps that make this crucial exercise difficult. A new IIASA-led study explored the use of a citizen science tool known as Picture Pile to see how it could contribute to SDG monitoring.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Global partnership to support citizen science for the SDGs

04 October 2021
The Global Citizen Science Partnership is a network-of-networks that aims to advance the use of citizen science to support the monitoring and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

Are we on track to end world hunger?

27 August 2021
IIASA researchers have contributed to a study that provides a new model to monitor and predict food insecurity in the coming decade. It finds that while overall global levels of food insecurity are set to decrease an increase is implied for lower income countries.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Migration and Sustainable Development (MIG)
Article: News

To achieve the SDGs, we need better data

04 June 2021
IIASA researchers have contributed to a new global campaign that illustrates the centrality of data to sustainable development with a project that uses citizen science to monitor marine litter in Ghana for official UN Sustainable Development Goals reporting.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES)
Article: News

New oil palm map to inform policy and landscape-level planning

30 March 2021
IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce a map of the extent and year of detection of oil palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand that will help policymakers and other stakeholders understand trends in oil palm expansion to inform landscape-level planning.
Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) Indonesia Malaysia Thailand

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