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Digital Giveback Campaign 2021 Overview

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: It’s no surprise that the COVID 19 pandemic has exacerbated a growing digital divide across the country. To help bridge the divide, Qualcomm Incorporated collaborated with Computers 2 Kids to host their second annual Digital Give Back Campaign, intending to provide digital devices to the many local students in need.

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Qualcomm's Approach to Transforming Education

3BL Media

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the depth of a digital divide that’s long existed in education, put a halt to traditional classroom education and accelerated the urgency for equitable solutions. . Furthermore, it facilitates greater content management opportunities, a better digital experience and online training opportunities for educators. .

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation

By Ritse Erumi & Anita Gurumurthy The digital economy is not working. Indeed, these digital technologies would enable people to transcend the geographic boundaries that constrained their ability to pursue the lives they valued, enabling them to acquire more social, economic, and political power.

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AMD Empowers the Next Generation of Leaders Through STEM Education Partnerships

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: Originally published in AMD 2021-22 Corporate Responsibility Report. Students are learning to build websites, design computer games, program in Scratch and Python and improve their digital literacy skills. KEYWORDS: NASDAQ:AMD, AMD, STEM, Digital Impact, Technology. SOURCE: AMD.

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How IBM Is Helping Bridge the Digital Divide

3BL Media

In October 2021, IBM announced partnerships with more than 170 academic and industry organizations across the U.S., In 2021 alone, IBM reached 3.5 Japan, India, and elsewhere to help reach its goal of providing technical skills to 30 million people of all ages by 2030. million people globally.

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Tremendous Progress. With More to Come. Regions Releases Community Engagement Report

3BL Media

NYSE:RF) announced the release of the Making Life Better: 2021 Community Engagement Report. These priorities also complement the commitment of Regions Bank and the Regions Foundation to advance racial equity and economic empowerment for communities of color while also helping close the wealth gap and the digital divide.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . As of 2021, Rotterdam officials were testing a pilot version of this grid.