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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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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.

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Sharply accelerating clean energy innovation

Paul Hobcraft

At their own admission, it has been three years since they (IEA) released its last Energy Technology Perspective (ETP) report. Although they argue they have been reflecting on the critical technology challenges, it is way overdue. We have recently been hearing that we have “all the technologies now we need to get on with it.”

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Bringing Blockchain into Real Life: Practical Applications for Disruptive Technology

Daniel Burrus

The technology that powers Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and eventually the federally issued digital currency, called blockchain , is far more disruptive to many different industries, and yet no one is really paying a lot of attention to it. Disrupting the Real Estate Industry. Buying and Selling Automobiles.

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Building A Sustainable Future: Can Technology Help Save The Environment?

Acuvate

Carbon dioxide emissions have increased by a whopping 32 percent between 2000 and 2010, and by 2020 had reached 34.81 But what's in it for businesses beyond adhering to policy mandates? Built on the Microsoft technology stack, Acuvate’s Inspection App combines Power B.I. billion metric tons. appeared first on Acuvate.

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The Innovation Intensity needed in the Energy Transition

Paul Hobcraft

We need to accelerate innovation and technology adoption. The IEA assesses the status of 46 critical energy technologies and sectors and offers some general advice on how to get “on track” with this SDS approach. No one is going to stop investment in proven, tested technology, processes.

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