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With your help, researchers can use computer vision and machine learning to flag accessibility issues across the District.

Before Sidewalk Labs targeted Toronto for its "smart city" project, it found 1,307 acres of land near downtown Detroit where its team believed they could carry out their utopian vision. There was just one problem.

Engineering and computer science researchers seek to make digital wayfinding more equitable and accessible to more people.

New World Bank blog about the importance of building accessible sidewalks for inclusive cities. Project Sidewalk has an ambitious plan to map and assess the location and condition of every sidewalk in the world

As the pandemic and lockdowns dragged on and on over the past year, most of us longed only for the day when the world would return to what it was before Covid-19 entered our vocabulary. For others, though, the months of seclusion led them to search for ways they might be able to make the world just a little better place than it was before. Here are a few ideas on improving your little part of the post-pandemic Earth that you could latch onto, or maybe you have some ideas of your own.