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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

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Companies across industries are committing to maximizing sustainability within their operations — and IT is at the heart of most of these efforts. In its Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2023 Predictions , analyst firm IDC sees digital and sustainability transformations converging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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CIOs help set the workforce AI training agenda

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At the CIO level, we’re in charge of the vision and how that vision is met,” says Gary Flowers, CIO of transformation and technology services at nonprofit workforce development organization Year Up. For many IT leaders, being central to organization-wide training initiatives may be new territory. “At And many CIOs are stepping up.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

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In rapid succession, Oceankind provided three grants totaling almost $2 million to iterate the robot’s design, add machine learning capabilities and transform it into a multi-functional autonomous underwater reef restoration system , intuitive enough to be operated by citizen scientists.

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10 best practices when partnering for strategic skills

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In addition to AI and machine learning, data science, cybersecurity, and other hard-to-find skills , IT leaders are also looking for outside help to accelerate the adoption of DevOps or product-/program-based operating models. To be sustainable, these partnerships must be mutually beneficial. It’s an interesting combination.”

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

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based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. pre-seed to help industrial manufacturers do sustainability reporting. Tanso nabs $1.9M

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Brazilian insurtech Justos raises $35.8M in Ribbit Capital-led Series A

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Justos also plans to use artificial intelligence and computerized vision to analyze and process claims more quickly and machine learning for image analysis and to create bots that help accelerate claims processing. . The company also has a social good component.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

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The round was led by Pan-African early-stage venture capital firm, TLcom Capital , with participation from nonprofit Women’s World Banking. When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Pula is solving this problem by using technology and data.

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