Commercial maps miss out huge swathes of land, leaving volunteer-powered, open-source maps to fill in the gaps. Getting that software and knowhow into the hands of local communities means they can boost their climate resilience – and their income.
Crisis response and preparedness has come a long way – but to manage future disasters, we need to support a marketplace for tried-and-tested innovations – and to learn from experience in countries like India.
Following this month's devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, social entrepreneurs in Ankara tell Pioneers Post why they need ideas more than money – and why the social economy now needs to be "more audacious".
In the wake of unprecedented disaster, New Zealand social enterprise Heilala Vanilla has been gathering funds and putting plans in motion to help the Tongan community recover after a volcanic eruption, tsunami and Covid struck the nation.
