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City of Aspiration: 150 Ideas for Building a More Equitable NYC

3BL Media

Partner with tech companies to provide free STEM skills education for students, educators, and jobseekers Justina Nixon-Saintil, Vice President, ESG and Corporate Social Responsibility, IBM. Across the U.S., a historic talent shortage has more than tripled over ten years. Within the technology sector alone there are more than 1.2

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Empowering Young Leaders to Solve the World’s Energy Challenges: Insights From Nine Business Case Studies Highlight Paths to a Sustainable Future

James Militzer

One of the most important teaching tools for these students are business case studies , because they allow them to develop the key skills of problem solving, quantitative and qualitative analytical thinking, decision-making, and coping with ambiguity — skills that will serve them well in designing the energy solutions of the future.

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How this IoT device from charity: water could advance water access for billions

Cisco CSR

We started looking into academic patents in 2012, but what we found in our searches were basic proof of concepts with no potential to scale the technology.” This data is compressed and transmitted to the cloud (for just pennies a week), where it is processed using advanced analytics tools.

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