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PEARC21 Plenary Session: AI for Innovative Social Work By Ken Chiacchia, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center/XSEDE July 21, 2021 AI analysis of social media poses a double-edged sword for social work and addressing the needs of at-risk youths, said Desmond Upton Patton, senior associate dean, Innovation and Academic Affairs, Columbia University. Speaking in the opening plenary session of the PEARC21 conference, Patton noted that on the one hand, it offers a powerful potential tool for understandin...

By Robert Tapfumaneyi A STUDY has shown that despite government’s efforts to put in place several food and nutrition policies, setting up institutional frameworks to facilitate food and nutrition security, food self-sufficiency remains elusive for millions in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) and Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum who produced the reports, recommended civil society should advocate legislation which criminalises infringements on the right to food so that perpetrators could e...