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Qualcomm and the Dariu Foundation Bring Educational Laptops With Cellular Connectivity to Rural Schools Across Vietnam

3BL Media

The initiative promotes digital literacy and the development of skills in STEM. And based on classroom competency exams, 90% of students developed digital skills and competencies in STEM that can lead to increase employment opportunities. SOURCE: Qualcomm. and President of Qualcomm's business in Taiwan and South East Asia.

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Guest Post: Connecting the ā€œDā€ to the ESG

ESG Today

In a world of rapid digital transformation , how do companies, investors, regulators, standard setters, and ordinary citizens respond to these shifts? Incorporating digital transformation efforts into the ESG reporting process is one way CEOs can supercharge stakeholder firm value. Digital Killed the Paper Based Star.

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ESG Rises to #2 Top Priority for Procurement Execs: Deloitte Survey

ESG Today

Deloitte has been conducting the Global CPO survey since 2011. Overall, 72% of respondents cited ā€œenhancing ESG/CSRā€ as a top enterprise priority, second only to ā€œdriving operational efficiencyā€ at 74%, and tied with ā€œdigital transformation.ā€

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IoT news of the week for Jan. 27, 2023

Stacey Higginbotham

This overview of a panel held earlier this month quotes Samsara’s CIO predicting that because of increasing digitization, traditional operational technology roles will converge with information technology roles. Tado is one of the earliest smart device companies, having formed in 2011, and it has a large presence in the European Union.

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An Experimental Approach to Early-Stage Nonprofit Governance

Stanford Social Innovation

Since its founding in 2011, Jump has experimented with a variety of governance approaches and identified a range of insights that can help other new nonprofits ethically and effectively pursue their missions. Their focus was on problem-solving, and all of them eventually joined the board.

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Canadaā€™s Best 50 corporate citizens of 2022 continue to conquer the markets

Corporate Knights

Racial diversity on large corporate boards has also improved: 9% of members are now non-white, double the 4% level in 2011, when we first started tracking this metric. As the standard bearers for sustainable capitalism, the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada have a special role to set the pace.

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Artificial Intelligence: Disruption or Opportunity?

Daniel Burrus

IBM Watson first shot to fame back in 2011 by beating two of Jeopardy’s greatest champions on TV. It is crucial to recognize how the technological landscape is evolving before our eyes during this digital transformation. Watson is a cognitive computer that learns over time.