by Data4Good | Aug 12, 2019 |
by Sarah Shearman, Thomson Reuters Foundation LONDON, June 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British retail bank HSBC UK launched a scheme on Monday to help victims of modern slavery and human trafficking in Britain “rebuild their lives” by giving them access to...
by Data4Good | Jul 10, 2019 |
by SAS Social welfare accounts for nearly a quarter of New Zealand’s gross domestic product. Tasked with improving services while spending these funds responsibly, the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is transforming its welfare system with the help of SAS...
by Data4Good | Jul 10, 2019 |
by Robin Austin, Contributor, CIO Outside the US, the definition of poverty is income of $1.50 a day or less per individual. In the United States the definition of poverty is income less than $34 per day per individual or a family of four with income less than $69 per...
by Data4Good | Jul 10, 2019
by Microsoft Australia Microsoft Australia and professional learning organisation, Education Changemakers, are calling on teachers and local high school students to enter a new national competition – the AI for Good Challenge – to learn about artificial intelligence...
by Data4Good | May 28, 2019
by Misha Ketchell, The Conversation “In sub-Saharan Africa, there are more people with mobile phones than access to electricity, as people are willing to commute to get a signal and/or charge their phones. By using mobile data we were able to identify the...
by Data4Good | May 28, 2019
by Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation …when people prepare to leave home, they sell their goats and the market price falls, signalling a coming surge in population movement – a measure that now feeds into the prediction system.”...
