Despite strides made in recent years, women continue to be underrepresented and face significant barriers to advancement in technology-related careers. In this issue we mark Women’s History Month – and International Women’s Day – with a collection of features highlighting the efforts being made to address this ongoing imbalance.
Elsewhere: A very deep dive into the design-thinking that’s driving transformation at Surrey County Council; talking sustainable IoT with Semtech CEO Mohan Maheswaran; 3M is voice-activating healthcare to create time to care; Cancer Research UK is transforming to the cloud and has already changed the game for matching clinical trials with patients.
Codesigning technologies for healthier communities
Researchers at the University of Plymouth have shown that developing tech with – not for – the digitally excluded can produce remarkable results.
Delivering One Version Of The Truth
How East of England Ambulance Service’s digital data lake is being used to save lives.
Protecting the kidneys of the Earth
The creators of LimKnow discuss how their app uses augmented reality to teach users about the importance of wetlands to the health of the Earth, and the threats they face.
Our plastic lungs
We speak to Dr Fay Couceiro, an expert in environmental pollution, about why plastics is a problem that will only get worse
Empowering sustainable investments with geospatial technology and earth observation data
Combining geospatial tech with data from space can will be key to making sound investments in a sustainable future, argues Ordnance Survey’s Mark Tabor.
Battling burnout: How AI can help reduce alert fatigue
AI can help alleviate cybersecurity alert fatigue by correlating events, qualifying threats, and reducing stress for analysts, improving well-being and addressing the skills gap in SOCs.
Technology and public services: We can do so much better
Andrea Danes, global human services leader at EY, discusses how we might unleash the public sector’s “innovative instigators” with technology.
The game-changing cloud innovation for cancer trials
Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest independent cancer research organisation, has digitally transformed. At the forefront of the world’s battle against cancer for the last 120 years, the charity has embraced agility and fast innovation in the Cloud in partnership with AWS.
Tech For Good’s cover story this time concerns Amref Health Africa, it’s brilliant work over decades to bring reliable healthcare to sub-Saharan Africa, and a remarkable partnership with GSK and Cognizant that has seen its digital capabilities dramatically enhanced.
Also in this issue: Lenovo’s Ian Jeffs talks to us about the company’s new Data for Humanity report, Health Education England’s James Freed talks digital leadership in times of trouble and change, and we meet some of the people pioneering lab-grown meat as a high-impact solution to global climate and food crises.
