Space based data centres: Will they be viable?
Dr. Atanu Chaudhuri explores whether space-based data centres could solve Earth’s growing digital infrastructure crisis while balancing sustainability, latency, cost and technological feasibility.
Thought Leadership
Building trust through effective communication: The key to successful smart cities
Antony Paul, Global Product Head at Quadient, explores how effective communication and automation can help councils build trust and successfully implement smart city initiatives.
Connectivity and mobile technology: A humanitarian lifeline
Kimberly Brown of GSMA highlights how mobile technology supports humanitarian efforts, providing critical information, aiding crisis response, and addressing challenges including inequality, misinformation, and connectivity gaps.
Why is it easier to find cinema times than mental health support online?
Navigating online mental health support is often confusing and fragmented. Clearer signposting and better data infrastructure can make finding help as simple as everyday digital tasks.
Revolutionising data centres with AI for a sustainable future
With rising data center demands, balancing energy efficiency and performance is crucial. AI offers a transformative solution, revolutionising how we optimise resources.
AI and alternative data: The key to financial inclusion in emerging markets?
Dmitry Borodin, Head of Decision Analytics at Creditinfo, explores how AI and alternative data are transforming financial inclusion, helping underserved groups access credit and economic opportunities.
AI in Action: Transforming disaster response for a safer tomorrow
AI is revolutionising disaster response, from predictive analytics preventing crises to real-time data aiding relief efforts. Ethical AI solutions empower nonprofits, ensuring technology serves global humanitarian needs.
AI’s role in supporting teachers in classrooms
AI has the power to transform education, easing teachers’ workloads while enhancing learning. But trust, transparency, and public confidence are key to its success.
Promoting feelings: Tech and mental health
As AI reshapes industries, its impact on mental health is profound. While it disrupts jobs, it also fosters new opportunities. Human creativity remains irreplaceable.
Data-driven resilience: The foundation for effective disaster response
Robust data management is crucial for disaster response. Accurate, real-time data enables swift decisions, preventing misallocated resources and delays that could cost lives.
The role of technology in the development of disaster response
Technology is revolutionising disaster response, from AI-driven predictions to emergency telecommunications. As climate change intensifies crises, innovative solutions are vital for preparedness, immediate relief, and long-term recovery.
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.
Edtech and the digital divide
The digital divide in education extends beyond access—it’s about strategy, choice, and impact. Stuart Walker shares five key lessons from his journey in EdTech.
Delivering lifesaving healthcare in underserved communities
Dulas is transforming healthcare in underserved communities by delivering solar-powered solutions, such as vaccine refrigerators, to ensure reliable immunisations and to build resilient local healthcare systems.
Your teams are neurodiverse. It’s time to embrace neuroinclusion.
Tech leaders may already know their teams are rich in neurodiversity, but keeping hold of them means intentional action.
The future of leadership: Humanity, technology, and the path to a better tomorrow
John O’Brien MBE, Chairman and Founder of Anthropy emphasises the need for visionary leadership that balances technology with human traits like empathy, creativity, and ethical judgment.
The role AI can play in building a safer internet by moderating online content
AI is revolutionising online content moderation by automating the detection of harmful materials like violence and abuse, while working alongside human moderators to ensure safety and compliance.
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.
Helpster: Leveraging technology to save children’s lives in underserved regions
Helpster Charity, led by CEO Kate Lysykh, leverages technology to provide life-saving healthcare to children in Africa and Asia, combating preventable deaths from diseases like malaria and pneumonia.
Reimagining rail travel: Why real-time, personalised information is the future of public transport
Real-time, personalised transport information is key to improving passenger experience. By integrating accessible data, rail travel can become more intuitive, responsive, and inclusive for all.
Healthcare’s remote connectivity solution
Peter Turner, CCO at TeamViewer, discusses how remote connectivity solutions are transforming healthcare by improving accessibility, reducing costs, and enhancing patient care in remote areas.
Unlocking the power of AI in education: From early years to after the classroom
Felix Ohswald, CEO of GoStudent, explores AI’s transformative role in education, from early childhood learning to post-classroom tools, and its potential to enhance personalised, lifelong learning.
How enterprise architecture is accelerating innovation in the healthcare sector
Rupert Colbourne, CTO at Orbus Software, explains how enterprise architecture is accelerating innovation in healthcare by streamlining workflows, reducing technical debt, and improving patient outcomes.
How to unblock public-sector AI
Stephen Foreshew-Cain, CEO of Scott Logic, explores how the UK public sector can overcome legacy IT, data silos, and skills gaps to successfully adopt AI and transform services.
How simulation can help optimise and accelerate pharmaceutical development
Thierry Marchal of Ansys explores how simulation, particularly computational fluid dynamics, can optimise and accelerate pharmaceutical development, ensuring safer, more efficient biologics production.
Powering digital equity in Philadelphia
The City of Philadelphia’s Office for Innovation using the power of public-private partnership to provide internet access to thousands.
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.
Building the ‘Siri of digital public services’ in Estonia
Estonia has become renowned as one of the most digitally advanced nations on the planet. Its latest innovation is Bürokratt, an AI-driven virtual assistant. Government CDO Ott Velsberg tells us more.
Series Three: Fred Werner
Fred Werner is a key figure in the UN’s AI for Good digital platform and global summit series. In this podcast, Fred discusses why the growth of AI is as much a human issue as a technical one.
Testing time
Tech for Good sits down with the founders of Ghanaian digital healthcare startup Redbird
Saving lives at scale: Helpster’s 2024 report shows tech-powered progress in underserved regions
Helpster’s 2024 report reveals how tech-driven healthcare funding is saving lives in underserved regions, proving that innovation and transparency can transform global health outcomes.
Thought Leadership
Building trust through effective communication: The key to successful smart cities
Antony Paul, Global Product Head at Quadient, explores how effective communication and automation can help councils build trust and successfully implement smart city initiatives.
Connectivity and mobile technology: A humanitarian lifeline
Kimberly Brown of GSMA highlights how mobile technology supports humanitarian efforts, providing critical information, aiding crisis response, and addressing challenges including inequality, misinformation, and connectivity gaps.
Why is it easier to find cinema times than mental health support online?
Navigating online mental health support is often confusing and fragmented. Clearer signposting and better data infrastructure can make finding help as simple as everyday digital tasks.
Revolutionising data centres with AI for a sustainable future
With rising data center demands, balancing energy efficiency and performance is crucial. AI offers a transformative solution, revolutionising how we optimise resources.
AI and alternative data: The key to financial inclusion in emerging markets?
Dmitry Borodin, Head of Decision Analytics at Creditinfo, explores how AI and alternative data are transforming financial inclusion, helping underserved groups access credit and economic opportunities.
AI in Action: Transforming disaster response for a safer tomorrow
AI is revolutionising disaster response, from predictive analytics preventing crises to real-time data aiding relief efforts. Ethical AI solutions empower nonprofits, ensuring technology serves global humanitarian needs.
AI’s role in supporting teachers in classrooms
AI has the power to transform education, easing teachers’ workloads while enhancing learning. But trust, transparency, and public confidence are key to its success.
Promoting feelings: Tech and mental health
As AI reshapes industries, its impact on mental health is profound. While it disrupts jobs, it also fosters new opportunities. Human creativity remains irreplaceable.
Data-driven resilience: The foundation for effective disaster response
Robust data management is crucial for disaster response. Accurate, real-time data enables swift decisions, preventing misallocated resources and delays that could cost lives.
The role of technology in the development of disaster response
Technology is revolutionising disaster response, from AI-driven predictions to emergency telecommunications. As climate change intensifies crises, innovative solutions are vital for preparedness, immediate relief, and long-term recovery.
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.
Edtech and the digital divide
The digital divide in education extends beyond access—it’s about strategy, choice, and impact. Stuart Walker shares five key lessons from his journey in EdTech.
Delivering lifesaving healthcare in underserved communities
Dulas is transforming healthcare in underserved communities by delivering solar-powered solutions, such as vaccine refrigerators, to ensure reliable immunisations and to build resilient local healthcare systems.
Your teams are neurodiverse. It’s time to embrace neuroinclusion.
Tech leaders may already know their teams are rich in neurodiversity, but keeping hold of them means intentional action.
The future of leadership: Humanity, technology, and the path to a better tomorrow
John O’Brien MBE, Chairman and Founder of Anthropy emphasises the need for visionary leadership that balances technology with human traits like empathy, creativity, and ethical judgment.
The role AI can play in building a safer internet by moderating online content
AI is revolutionising online content moderation by automating the detection of harmful materials like violence and abuse, while working alongside human moderators to ensure safety and compliance.
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.
Helpster: Leveraging technology to save children’s lives in underserved regions
Helpster Charity, led by CEO Kate Lysykh, leverages technology to provide life-saving healthcare to children in Africa and Asia, combating preventable deaths from diseases like malaria and pneumonia.
Reimagining rail travel: Why real-time, personalised information is the future of public transport
Real-time, personalised transport information is key to improving passenger experience. By integrating accessible data, rail travel can become more intuitive, responsive, and inclusive for all.
Healthcare’s remote connectivity solution
Peter Turner, CCO at TeamViewer, discusses how remote connectivity solutions are transforming healthcare by improving accessibility, reducing costs, and enhancing patient care in remote areas.
Unlocking the power of AI in education: From early years to after the classroom
Felix Ohswald, CEO of GoStudent, explores AI’s transformative role in education, from early childhood learning to post-classroom tools, and its potential to enhance personalised, lifelong learning.
How enterprise architecture is accelerating innovation in the healthcare sector
Rupert Colbourne, CTO at Orbus Software, explains how enterprise architecture is accelerating innovation in healthcare by streamlining workflows, reducing technical debt, and improving patient outcomes.
How to unblock public-sector AI
Stephen Foreshew-Cain, CEO of Scott Logic, explores how the UK public sector can overcome legacy IT, data silos, and skills gaps to successfully adopt AI and transform services.
How simulation can help optimise and accelerate pharmaceutical development
Thierry Marchal of Ansys explores how simulation, particularly computational fluid dynamics, can optimise and accelerate pharmaceutical development, ensuring safer, more efficient biologics production.