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The new State of AI in Africa Report created by the AI Media Group from South Africa, offers an analytical insight into the growing Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector in Africa, a topic that has not been fully explored up until...
  • 14 July 2022
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28 March 2022 / Culture, Data, Education, Ethics
By Jennifer C. Clemente Women remain underrepresented at the top. Let’s do something to change that. Though the leadership pipeline of women has grown in a variety of professional, managerial and SVP roles, the newest IBM research warns that many...
  • 28 March 2022
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Wang Xinhui, General Manager of Wireless Standardization, and Industrial Relations, ZTE Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing at an increasingly rapid pace. New technological applications and systems are currently being used to simulate, extend, and expand human intelligence. With the continued development...
  • 25 February 2022
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22 February 2022 / Data, Ethics, Inclusivity
In the 1960s, emerging research on the effects of poverty and its impact on education came to light. This research indicated an obligation to help disadvantaged groups, compensating for inequality in social or economic conditions. In January 1964, a former...
  • 22 February 2022
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4 February 2022 / Data
Pierre Adrien Hanania Data & AI for Good leader, Capgemini Anne-Laure Thieullent Data & AI Group Offer Leader, Capgemini With less than 10 years to go, the United Nations is not on track to meet the goals set out for...
  • 4 February 2022
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The climate crisis is becoming more urgent and more serious, with increasingly extreme events happening more often. Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, cited the example of the current heatwave driving record temperatures in Siberia (Russian Federation), the...
  • 13 July 2021
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More than 40 million people around the world are enslaved today. Eliminating modern slavery has been particularly challenging due to its near-invisible nature – until recently. Experts from the Code 8.7 community have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) and computational science to fight modern...
  • 11 March 2021
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23 December 2020 / 5G, Data, Innovation & Creativity
“Free, fast, for all, the Journal aims to promote accessibility of research to academics and industry researchers across the world,” says the ITU Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, Ian F. Akyildiz. “The publication is free of charge for both readers and authors, highlighting the true...
  • 23 December 2020
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What do we need to build a better and more equal world for everyone on this planet? And how can artificial intelligence (AI) help us get there faster? The AI for Good Global Summit organized annually by ITU and XPRIZE...
  • 6 October 2020
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Datasets relevant to sustainable development, expertise in AI and humanitarian action, and ‘AI for Good’ projects with ambitions to achieve global impact – these are the three key pillars of the Global Initiative on AI and Data Commons. The AI for Good...
  • 23 April 2020
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30 May 2019 / Data, Space
New developments in the space industry and advances in cloud computing are presenting opportunities to improve people’s lives at a pace and scale not seen before. From mapping poverty to improving food security to responding to disasters, these developments could...
  • 30 May 2019
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17 December 2018 / Data, Inclusivity
“With ICTs everywhere, data is being generated everywhere,” says ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. “We have amassed an enormous wealth of data, creating a resource of enormous productive value.” The second issue of the ITU Journal – themed ‘Data for Good’...
  • 17 December 2018
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1 October 2018 / Data, Smart Cities
The Georgia Institute of Technology is an Academia Member of ITU. The university’s Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) recently released a new paper titled “Foundational Research in Integrated Building Internet of Things (IoT)...
  • 1 October 2018
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30 May 2018 / Data, Space
Since the birth of commercial satellite systems in the 1960s, satellites have grown to deliver a broad range of essential services to people around the globe. They are key in delivering television broadcasting, in providing emergency telecommunications, global positioning, meteorological information, environmental...
  • 30 May 2018
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As momentum to build new ‘AI for Good’ projects emerges from last week’s AI for Good Global Summit, experts and leaders are recognizing the need to share resources to help such projects achieve significant scale. Discussions towards ‘AI and Data Commons’...
  • 25 May 2018
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22 May 2018 / Data, Space
“Satellites beam to earth the equivalent of roughly 2 billion one-megapixel photographs every day. AI is the only thing that can let us see the whole world at once. Not recording it, but seeing it – creating a global real-time...
  • 22 May 2018
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26 January 2018 / Data, Innovation & Creativity
Every January, big technology trends become more central to key discussions as the world’s top business and political leaders gather at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting  in Davos, Switzerland. It reflects the growing importance of information communication technologies (ICTs) for...
  • 26 January 2018
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19 January 2018 / Data, Digital Economy, Smart Cities
The story of Singapore’s birth in 1965 is ingrained in the population to this day. The single-layer government knew at the time that it had to be creative to build Singapore’s economy. Since then, the city-state with few natural resources...
  • 19 January 2018
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