Attachments Almost one billion children and adults with disabilities and older persons in need of assistive technology denied access, according to new report WHO and UNICEF call on governments, industry, donors and civil society to fund and prioritize access to assistive products GENEVA/NEW YORK, 16 May 2022 – A new […]
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Big Tech data harvesting comes under fire by world central bank group
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LONDON, May 5 (Reuters) – A paper published by the world’s main central bank umbrella group, the BIS, has called for individuals and firms to be given more control over the data collected on them by social media and other Big Tech firms and banks. The boom in internet-enabled mobile […]
Smart Cities World – Micromobility
Micromobility operator Voi is working with Drover AI to deploy computer vision technology on its e-scooters in Oslo. Drover AI’s technology uses machine learning and computer vision to identify whether the e-scooter is on the pavement, road or cycle lane, to help prevent pavement riding. Computer vision trial […]
The World Is in Crisis, and That’s Good for the Economy
The war in Ukraine, the economic and social turmoil induced by China’s zero-Covid policy, the European Union’s collective security and defense awakening, and the polarization of American politics have combined to induce global economic pessimism. Yet none of these factors will stagnate long-term global growth. They will accelerate it, driven […]
World Refugee Day: Tech firms, collectively, can strengthen the security internet
“Please don’t create the following trafficking app.” These have been the phrases I heard a number of months in the past after I visited a big worldwide humanitarian group because it centered on serving to refugee youngsters from Ukraine. The purpose of that assertion was that too typically and regardless […]
Bridging DevOps, data science and business outcomes in a software-defined world
While the general advancement of enterprise software is often thought of as the marrying of software development and data stacks, a third consideration is essential to driving tangible advancement. “You’ve got to think about not just the software developer or the data scientist, but also there’s a line of business in there […]