North Carolina tied Medicaid funds to hospitals erasing $6.5B in debt at no state cost
A charity and 99 hospitals wiped debts for 2.5M people after the state tied extra Medicaid payments to joining.
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300 最新事例 · 定期更新My Old Apartment: PEI tenants mail the old rent to the new tenant (interview)
In an NPR interview, Darcie Lanthier says her card lets departing tenants report their last rent so new ones spot illegal rises.
事例を読むMeituan lets volunteer 'kangaroo jury' users settle small order and review disputes
Meituan's app, since January 2020, lets panels of volunteer users vote on petty disputes, resolving 500 to 700 cases a day in 2021.
事例を読むMapatón CDMX turned mapping Mexico City's unmapped minibuses into a points game
Riders earned prizes for GPS-logging pesero rides, and an algorithm raised points for ignored routes, mapping nearly the whole system.
事例を読むEvansville's grocery sold $75 memberships for 24/7 app access to a mostly unstaffed store
A Minnesota couple reopened their town's grocery with app-unlocked doors and prepaid memberships, hitting year-one sign-ups in a week.
事例を読むA visiting surgeon taught a Tanzanian non-doctor brain surgery, starting 'train forward'
Dr. Dilan Ellegala spent six months teaching Emmanuel Mayegga basic neurosurgery at Haydom, then built an NGO around the model.
事例を読むLondon CLT sells Lewisham flats at local-income prices that stay locked to local earnings
Citizens House flats cost about 35% below nearby homes because price tracks local income and an asset lock fixes resale terms.
事例を読むHezam Kittani rebuilt a USAID-funded strawberry system for a third of the irrigation cost
A West Bank farmer swapped plastic boards for wood and plastic sheet, and a coded $500 irrigation computer, so neighbors could copy it without grants.
事例を読むJ.W. Westcott delivers mail to moving Great Lakes freighters by tugboat and bucket
Since 1874 a Detroit River company has served ships that barely slow down by running out alongside and swapping mail in a pail.
事例を読むJared Mauch built a fiber ISP when Comcast quoted $50,000 to reach his Michigan home
A network architect laid fiber himself with a $50 homemade blower and $5,000 prepay deals, hooking up 30 homes at a 70% take rate.
事例を読むIndiana University mailed students their running debt total, and borrowing fell 11%
Student debt accumulates in installments, so IU began telling borrowers their running total, rate and future monthly payment.
事例を読むICRISAT's GreenSIM delivers farm advice as free voice calls — no literacy required
When English websites and SMS failed illiterate Indian farmers, ICRISAT switched to voice messages recorded by farmers themselves — and profits multiplied.
事例を読むA Ghana teacher teaches Microsoft Word by chalking the screen on a blackboard (interview)
In an NPR interview, Owura Kwadwo Hottish says he spends 30 minutes drawing Word's interface before each class.
事例を読むNepal's largest hospital replaced its incinerator with a biodigester fed on placentas
HECAF360 added a second chamber to Nepal's village biogas design, so hospital placentas and food waste now make cooking gas.
事例を読むHavre, Montana fed a brewery's spent barley to its sewage bacteria, dodging a $1M upgrade
Havre's wastewater plant dumps a daily bucket of Triple Dog Brewing's spent barley into its bacteria, replacing a purchased chemical.
事例を読むGreen Mountain Power leased batteries to homes, built Vermont's largest power source
For $55 a month, GMP puts two batteries in a home; together 5,500+ users supply about 110MW and replaced peaker plants.
事例を読むGoogle cut cafeteria food waste with bowls an inch less deep
Shallower bowls led Googlers to take 30-50% less food and cut waste 30-70% — no menu change, no rules, says Google's Food for Good head.
事例を読むJames Goodfellow patented the PIN-and-card cash machine so only genuine customers get cash
Kelvin Hughes engineer James Goodfellow solved ATM access with a secret number plus a plastic token, filing in May 1966.
事例を読むFreund chased an SSH performance anomaly and caught a multi-year backdoor (interview)
In an NPR interview, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund recounts how a routine benchmark's SSH slowdown exposed a backdoor built over multiple years.
事例を読むFreightWaves, Nodal and DAT launched futures to let shippers lock in truck-route prices
The first US trucking futures hedge a route's per-mile rate up to 16 months ahead, priced off DAT's load-board data.
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