An Afrocentric Approach to Tackling Climate Risk with Drones
By Sikem Brice, Unusual Solutions Grand Prize Winner
Phantom IV Pro hovering...
Helping Ensure Ethical Indian Drone Operations
By Nandini Mehrotra and Shashank Srinivasan, Technology for Wildlife
The global...
What We Learned From ‘Unusual Solutions’
Organizing the first edition of the Unusual Solutions Competition was an...
Discover the Videos of the Unusual Solutions Competition Final Pitch Event
On February 25, 2020, the Final Pitch day we held in Nairobi was a grand finale...
Announcing the Unusual Solutions Competition Grand Prize Winner
We know firsthand that it is the data analysis and community and stakeholder...
An ‘Unusual Solution’ to Fight Forest Fires with Drones, Data
By Nicolás di Tada, Argentina, Unusual Solutions Finalist
Forests are vital to...
Safeguarding the Rights of Those Impacted by Drone Use
By Shashank Srinivasan, Unusual Solutions Finalist
Around the world, a stark...
This New Tool Aims to Help Farmers Choose the Right Crop
By Mounmo Bayangmbe, Unusual Solutions Finalist
In Africa, particularly in...
Using Drone Data to Improve Climate Resilience in Mayo-Danay, Cameroon
By Sikem Brice, Unusual Solutions Finalist
Recent trends in climatic conditions...
Drone-Mounted Microphones Could Help Rescuers Find Disaster Survivors More Quickly
By Annesya Banerjee, Unusual Solutions Finalist
In the modern high-tech world,...
Using Drones to Improve Water and Sanitation in Papua New Guinea
By Mclaren Hoping, Unusual Solutions Finalist
The use of proper sanitation...
This Participatory Mapping Project Hopes to Make Urban Planning Smarter
By Ónice Arango Flores, Unusual Solutions Finalist
International nonprofit TECHO...
Meet the ‘Unusual Solutions’ Final Pitch Event Jurors
Since receiving their grants of US $15,000, the nine Unusual Solutions finalists...
Empathy & Testing of JembeKilimo+ in Tanzania
By Rose Funja, Unusual Solutions Finalist
For more than a decade, the Agriculture...
Meet the Unusual Solutions Competition Finalists
On September 8th, we officially closed the application phase of the Unusual...
Introducing the Unusual Solutions Expert Jury Panel
When we launched the Unusual Solutions Competition back in June, we wanted to...
The ‘Unusual Solutions’ Competition Is a $235,000 Challenge to Solve Social Issues Through Drone Data
While drones are now more accessible than ever, communities around the world,...