2020-21 Laureates

Livestock farmers need a way to monitor and keep tabs on their animals, and since agriculture is a huge industry, this is important to nations' economic and food security.

Victoria Alonsoperez, the founder of Chipsafer, was only 12 years old when she had the idea of developing a solution to monitor livestock remotely.

Chipsafer improves the safety and security of livestock herds while reducing ranchers’ environmental impact and providing traceability across the cows’ lifecycle by equipping farmers with data to help identify and isolate irregularities for the protection of their herds. Data is gathered with sensors and transformed into actionable information.

You're never too young to begin solving problems!

Homeless services are made up of local governments, police, healthcare, and nonprofits working independently for each other. But no single organization on their own can overcome a system that is so broken.

Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home, talks about how Destination: Home was created to convene different organizations and consolidate all data into one place so everyone can keep moving forward together to end homelessness.

Destination: Home uses data to track progress toward permanent housing for vulnerable populations in Santa Clara County, as well as to help individuals and families at risk of becoming homeless.

Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination: Home, shares some advice on how we can be part of the solution to end homelessness.

Some 90% of children born before 1940 grew up to earn more than their parents. But only half of children born after 1940 do so. The American Dream is increasingly difficult to achieve.

Raj Chetty, director of Opportunity Insights, talks about our chances of achieving the American Dream is dependent on a variety of factors, and how we can use data to create a society where everyone has a shot of succeeding.

Opportunity Insights uses data to uncover and understand the potential of our society to increase economic outcomes for all Americans.

Go to opportunityatlas.org and explore opportunity in any neighborhood in America.

We need a way to track and help predict the spread of diseases such as Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19.

Chris Fabian, co-founder of UNICEF Innovation & Giga, talks about the origin of UNICEF's Magicbox after realizing how important real-time data was during the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa.

UNICEF’s Innovations team created a technology platform to track and help predict the spread of diseases. The information empowers global and community leaders to make data-driven decisions towards prevention and containment of disease.

There are various online tools you can use to experiment with data and solve problems you see around you.