Loading...A “Problems to be solved” directory website – invite great minds to resolve humanity’s biggest challenges
Scholars, thinkers and owners of AI who find solutions would receive a prize – and it would beat the Nobel prize when it comes to practical solutions.
Hmm, I don’t think the UN is helping the situation when they name the first global issue to be solved as…. “Africa”. Surely the entire continent isn’t a problem humanity wants to be rid of?
I often search for this to find a site dedicated to hosting a definitive list of problems that can be filtered by category and sorted by order of how many people’s lives would be improved – ideally each problem would contain a list of different projects where people are trying to solve the problem. that would help them get in touch with each other, see progress made and allow each to know which bit of the problem still needs a solution. Why this doesn’t exist. I don’t know. Maybe it does. For now I am linking to one of the usual posts that list problems that should be on a site like this.
Good article here – it contains a “Long list of potentially pressing global issues.”
Hey thanks for the link, I like the aim of this site, it may be exactly what the idea poster meant. From the homepage it say…
“You have 80,000 hours in your career.
How can you best use them to help solve the world’s most pressing problems?
We’re a nonprofit that does research to answer this question. We provide free advice and support to help you have a greater impact with your career.
Join our newsletter to read our key ideas and get twice-monthly highlights from our job board.”
Adding this link because it is a place that connects people with challenges with capable innovators. Maybe a site that lists problems and better connects them to people who could crowdsource solutions is possible?
Not sure if a site like this exists, but they should be categorised something like the below, listed on this blog post at the Borgen Project:
Armed Conflict
Chronic Disease
Education
Infectious Disease
Population Growth
Biodiversity
Climate Change
Hunger and Malnutrition
Natural Disasters
Water and Sanitation