Long lost best friends were reunited through social media. They lost touch, but after 12 years, one photo, and thousands of retweets later, they were together again — thanks to the internet.
The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs developed a Palm Oil Shopping Guide app to help consumers find sustainable palm oil sources that don’t destroy rainforests.
1960s high school sweethearts married each other after accidentally reconnecting 50+ years later through a social networking site for former students.
“I was happy. In a way, I was [on the site] trying to find her, too.”
An online nonprofit and donation service called MEANS was founded by a high school freshman to help alleviate issues of food waste and feeding the hungry in the U.S.
“There was nothing that really allowed us to communicate in an efficient way… The Internet was right in front of us!”
MEANS has helped redistribute more than 1.8 million pounds of food since 2015 and serves about 3,000 partners in 48 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Italian company Volta is trying to improve the often chaotic feeding time in homes with more than one pet. The Mookie, an AI-driven pet feeder, uses facial recognition to release food to the right animal in multi-pet homes.
“The bowl can be connected to a dedicated smartphone application to record pet usage and monitor the amount of food present, while also alerting the owner to the need to resupply.”
Silvio Revelli, CEO of Volta
The Golden State Warriors partnered with Google Cloud to leverage analytics technology to track and organize data to help the team improve their game play.
“Today, 70% of the Golden State Warriors analytics team’s time is spent collecting and shaping data and only 30% of time is spent analyzing it”
Kirk Lacob, assistant general manager and vice president of GSW Sports Ventures at the Warriors
@Columbia neuroengineers created a system to translate brain activity into intelligible, recognizable speech using AI and speech synthesizers.
“We found that people could understand and repeat the sounds about 75% of the time.”
Nima Mesgarani, PhD, Columbia University
A resort in Costa Rica is using tech and video capabilities to provide a data-driven approach to evaluating surfing techniques for everyone from beginners to experts.
North Carolina startup K4Connect is working with dozens of senior-living providers & communities to seamlessly connect multiple devices in their homes to help manage daily tasks.
“These types of technologies for older adults can help them live more independent, vibrant lives.”
Derrick Minor, Manager, People Operations for K4Connect
BeMyEyes is a free mobile app that connects visually impaired people with 1.8 million volunteers – who speak more than 180 languages – for help with daily tasks, such as matching an outfit or locating missing car keys.
Follow along at: #InternetOfGood
The free app has connected more than 100K visually impaired people with an individual from a pool of 1.8 million volunteers for person-to-person calls.
An Oregon couple created a website & social media pages to reach expectant mothers considering private adoption. They shared photos of themselves, their dog, & other interests & used relevant hashtags to get in front of the right people.
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Our first #InternetOfGood story is about the @BARCS_SHELTER, which recently became the first organization in Baltimore to use facial recognition software & algorithms to identify missing pets & alert their owners.
Story Factoid: The software picked the correct animal 98% of the time.
“We’ve helped reunite owners with more than 15,000 missing pets since 2013.”
– John Polimeno, Founder of Finding Rover