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In the news | The Nature Conservancy
The value of words + pictures
For years the idea that nature and tourism are linked has been kept largely—and unhelpfully— confined to a series of studies on wildlife watching or scuba diving and filed under the heading: “nature-based tourism.”
In the news | Radiology Business
7 lessons learned during joint big business/healthcare AI projects
Big Tech players have been investing in partnerships with large healthcare providers on AI endeavors for several years now. According to both sides in one such collaboration, the resulting synergy offers “immense potential” to improve patient access, care and outcomes.
In the news | Julia Chatterly – CNN
Eyes in the sky – Planet Labs satellites track a changing globe
“It’s helping to lift the fog of war. No longer can anyone hide.” @planet Labs CEO @Will4Planet on how their satellite data and AI is transforming damage assessment in #Ukraine & #Turkey, tackling food security & deforestation.
In the news | ODI Open Data Institute
ODI and Microsoft supporting the Open Climate Data Challenge in Uruguay
Uruguay 2100 has been selected as the winner of the Open Climate Data Challenge in Uruguay, a challenge supported by Microsoft and the Open Data Institute.
In the news | AI Business
Novartis, Microsoft to use AI to gauge cardiovascular risk in urban areas
Novartis and Microsoft are working together to assess the cardiovascular risk of residents in urban cities, using AI to discover just how much socio-economic and environmental factors affect heart health.
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Closing the Climate Data Divide in the Global South
World and business leaders are facing pressing climate issues as they gather in Egypt for COP27 – and are focused on ways to come together on action and implementation. At Microsoft, we see these days ahead as an opportunity to…
In the news | Microsoft on the Issues
Closing the Sustainability Skills Gap: Helping businesses move from pledges to progress
Today Microsoft is publishing a new report. Thousands of companies around the world have issued climate pledges – but globally, we don’t currently have the workforce with the necessary skills to move from pledges to progress.
In the news | Data & Policy Blog
Forecasting Food Insecurity Levels in Near Real-Time Using a Machine Learning Framework
In this blog, Shahrzad Gholami and colleagues introduce their research recently published in Data & Policy: which demonstrated, in a case study in Malawi, the feasibility and accuracy of an early warning system for food insecurity.
In the news | Microsoft Stories
Tech workers turn their skills toward helping the world — one disaster at a time
Her children had grown up under frequent bombing in eastern Ukraine for the past eight years and would automatically — and calmly — run to an inner corridor for shelter whenever they heard the telltale whoosh. So when even they started…