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.
Technology Driving Blood Supply
NHS Blood and Transplant keeps people alive. Wendy Clark and David Rose discuss the role of technology.
3M M*Modal: Voice-activated healthcare
AI and natural-language processing present a huge opportunity for stretched healthcare systems to transform their clinical day-to-day.
Human Rights In The Age Of AI
Jan Kleijssen discusses how the Council of Europe is protecting human rights in the digital age.
Seeking AI’s true purpose
George Tilesch and Omar Hatamleh, co-authors of BetweenBrains, explore major themes around artificial intelligence, humanity and the future
Schools of the Future
How Next-Generation Competency-Based Learning is Transforming Education
Updating the outdated in education
LearnLife’s Christopher Pommerening on why education needs to be dragged into the 21st century via an open learning ecosystem
Series Three: Sergio Budkin
Sergio Budkin is Director of Market Development for Virgin Media 02.
In this podcast, Sergio shares some steps towns and cities can take to become smarter, greener and healthier.
Series Three: Andrea Danes
Andrea Danes is Global Human Services Leader for EY.
In this podcast, Andrea discusses the company’s work to support vulnerable populations.
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.
