Lacuna Fund Invites Proposals to Develop Inclusive Health and Climate Datasets

Lacuna Fund Invites Proposals to Develop Inclusive Health and Climate Datasets   Lacuna Fund is pleased to announce two new calls for proposals to develop open and accessible machine learning (ML) datasets that will improve Sexual, Reproductive & Maternal Health and Rights (SRMHR) and illuminate the relationship between Climate & Forests to help identify interventions that could mitigate or adapt … Continued

Announcing Awards for Climate Datasets: Health and Energy

Announcing Awards for Climate Datasets: Health and Energy 2022 Climate Awardees Lacuna Fund is delighted to announce awards to eight teams who will create machine learning datasets in the Climate domain. Five project teams will focus on the intersection of climate and energy, studying impacts in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, and Mauritius. These datasets aim … Continued

Open Data and the Power of AI: Supporting Local Experts to Tackle the Climate Crisis

The four supporters of Lacuna Fund’s new investment in climate change datasets explain how the climate crisis, unbiased, local data, and their different funding strategies connect. Communities suffer from increasingly frequent heat waves, but policymakers lack the data to better prepare them for the effects of climate change. Models that help us understand the impact … Continued