This edition is packed with AI, though notably not designed by it – some things, we believe, are best left to humans.
Our cover story takes us to Copenhagen, where we meet the brilliant minds at Danfoss, an engineering firm innovating climate control in buildings since the 1930s. Now, in partnership with AWS, they’re dramatically reducing emissions from buildings using just the power of data and AI.
Elsewhere, we explore both the promise and peril of AI: from personalized education, climate solutions, and bridging the digital divide – as demonstrated by researchers at the University of Plymouth – to the scourge of AI-generated misinformation and students learning to using AI to avoid thinking for themselves.
Creating A Pathway To Hope
Gilead Science’s PrEP Hub® platform is a gamechanger in the fight against HIV – both the disease and the stigma.
Delivering One Version Of The Truth
How East of England Ambulance Service’s digital data lake is being used to save lives.
What3Words: Life-Changing Tech
The location app is riding a wave of publicity as the ubiquitous nature of the solution becomes helpful to multiple sections of society.
Beyond your viral dreams
Eva Taylor, CSR Director at Hootsuite explains how social media can help refugees take control of their narratives
Sustainable construction’s tipping point: Will tech, policy, or practical action make the biggest impact?
Saskia Manson of re:new argues sustainable construction’s tipping point hinges on tech, policy, and action. Reusing materials, not just recycling, offers vast carbon savings.
Keeping the lights on in an intermittent world
Michael Lynch, Global Real Time Operations Manager at Enel X on the scale, systems and virtual skills of a modern global network operations centre.
Teenage Tech Stories: Guardians of the GalaxSEA
Kiefer Ong, Pierre Yeap and See Jay Ng are the three members of Guardians of the GalaxSEA. In this podcast, the Singapore-based team explains how they have used orange peel extracts to synthesise an eco-friendly magnetic ferrofluid to help clean up oil spills.
Teenage Tech Stories: Prisha Shroff
Prisha Shroff is not yet 15, but she is already determined to help solve real-world problems, starting with wildfires. In this podcast, Prisha explains how she developed an affordable AI system capable of identifying areas where wildfires are likely to begin and deploying drones to prevent them from happening.
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.
