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Technology’s role in social sustainability

CIO

Technology has a critical role to play in any organization’s social sustainability strategy. And according to a survey from NTT, a majority of senior executives recognize this and are actively working to harness digital technology and innovation to support their social sustainability initiatives. That number is set to grow.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

Broadly speaking, it’s needed by researchers, in fields from medical studies to social sciences, and is a vital tool to keep universities running efficiently, assist professors with courses, predict academic failure in time to make changes, and give students the help they need with administration.

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Climate and Sustainability Hackathon—Meet the Judges!

Cloudera

And that record number meant hard work for our judging panel, who were tasked with evaluating the nearly 200 innovative AMPs that our participants created to determine the top three winners. The judging process took place over two phases from October 2023 to March 2024.

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Building the Woke Web: Web Accessibility, Inclusion & Social Justice

A List Apart

In the UK, only 37% of people living in social housing are online. Being able to access the internet has social and psychological ramifications too. Even with incredible innovation coming from within the disabled community , there’s more that everyone else can do. Hire teams that are diverse on every axis.

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Thinking of hibernating through the metaverse winter?

CIO

During AI winters , devoted innovators persevered, even without concurrence about what AI was and is. These identities enable anonymity, freedom of self-expression, collaboration, creativity, and social interaction. Alternate identities : Personas or representations of users in digital form.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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Team Building 101: Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Productivity

Women on Business

In today’s increasingly cynical climate, it’s easy to think that enterprise-wide team-building exercises are useless. And with good reason: many companies have made the mistake in confusing team-building with team competing. Competition can unfortunately, bring out the worst in people.