How can we measure the urgency of environmental problems in our community?

Over the past few months, UNICEF has asked young people between the age of 18 and 25 to help them test out a new feature to UNICEF’s mapping platform – which ­visualizes the severity of citizen reports. Fifty youth innovators from over 40 different countries volunteered their time to test out the Urgency Rank Prototype. Each person was tasked with uploading at least one report of an environmental hazard in their communities, complete with photos, descriptions and tags, in categories such as water, sanitation, garbage and natural resources.

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