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Investing in Women Through Technology Training

Business and Tech

The biggest obstacle impacting women today is the subconscious biases impacting perception of competence,” said Shaddix, whose background includes marketing and tech policy research. Our programs are hands-on, and we let students learn at their own pace, at a time that works for them,” she said. “We Overcoming adversity.

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How Communities Are Leveraging Technology to Address Racial Equity

IdeaScale

Overview: Technology is allowing communities to both understand the scale and the nature of racial inequity in their midst. By improving access to technology, developing more effective technology, and using it to drive policy, they’re beginning to address long-standing racial issues. Is Technology Biased?

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How the Right Technology Empowers Entrepreneurial Dreams

Business and Tech

And now more than ever, in this prolonged pandemic that has fueled economic and social disparities, access to technology and the right technology tools are a critical part of that. One thing that emerged from the survey responses is that the accelerated shift to technology in 2020 and beyond has highlighted the need for broadband.

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Innovation adoption in the technology lifecycle for Energy Translation

Paul Hobcraft

Technological innovation has a central role to play in the Energy Transition currently being undertaken throughout the world. The six main thrusts for technological innovation within the Energy Systems for today’s energy transition are: To accelerate the deployment of renewable energy technologies throughout the system.

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Bringing the Shopping Experience Into the Future

Business and Tech

Retail technology. The solution is a modern onboarding and training platform focused on mobile-first and micro-learning. “It It can’t be sitting around for four hours in the stockroom hearing about policies and reading policy manuals,” says Chan Liban.

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Innovation requires learning, relearning and unlearning

Jeffrey Phillips

For most it's guaranteed to be a slog, or a review of policies and procedures rarely used and important only to a specific team or set of circumstances. While people are attending the "mandatory" training to learn material of vague importance to their day to day jobs, their inboxes are filling up, cat videos are going unwatched.

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Understanding the Innovation Landscape needed for Enabling Technologies in the World’s Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

To have any chance to reverse these temperature rises there is an increasing emphasis on innovation solutions within the technology that is required for the Worlds energy system. Much of the investments need to be directed away from fossil fuels (the primary carbon emitters) into clean technologies. Behind-the-meter batteries.