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Future Skills Partnership launched to enhance digital skills in the north-east © Supplied by Opportunity North Ea Jared Owen, ONE digital and entrepreneurship director North-east educational establishments have joined forces with some of Scotland’s digital training providers in an effort to boost the region’s digital capabilities. The Future Skills Partnership, spearheaded by Opportunity North East (ONE), aims to help the region keep pace with the country’s other major cities in digital ...

BMLL Wins Editor’s Choice Award For Innovative Early Stage Business At The 2021 TradingTech Insight Europe Awards Date 26/02/2021 We are delighted to announce that BMLL Technologies has won the “Editor’s Choice Award for Innovative Early Stage Business” award at the 2021 TradingTech Insight Europe Awards. The award recognises technology providers showcasing excellence in client service, innovative product development and sustainable business growth over the past year.  Over the...

Not JUST Data Feb. 22, 2021 9 a.m. Illustration by Matilda Luk, Office of Communications; image of Ida B. Wells circa 1895 by Cihak and Zima, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; image of Justice from iStock When Ruha Benjamin was 14, she moved from South Carolina to the South Pacific with her parents, educators tasked with curriculum development and teacher training in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands. To keep the family entertained, her father brought boxes of VHS ta...

Expansion of prison kitchen training scheme to cut reoffending Thousands of offenders will be diverted away from crime by the expansion of a catering training scheme in prisons across England and Wales. From: the Clink Kitchens training programme to expand to up to 70 prisons training reduces reoffending rates by 32% and will transform the lives and prospects of thousands of offenders part of government’s commitment to build back safer by cutting reoffending, which costs the taxpayer £18...

18/02/2021 18 February 2021, Rome –  The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today met virtually the Group of Arab Ambassadors in Rome where he had the opportunity to talk about the FAO’s reform and reorganization, its work and the importance of transforming agri-food systems in the Arab world. In his opening remarks, the Director-General stressed that the continued structural reforms are making FAO more dynamic, results-orient...

A PILOT scheme initially launched in Edinburgh and south-east Scotland aimed at enhancing the labour market with additional data skills is to be rolled out across the country. Scotland’s innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence (AI), The Data Lab, has launched two new funding schemes to support further business investment in the sector after receiving a £1 million boost from the Scottish Government. The new funding means up to £100,000 in additional Data Skills Credits c...

Domino Data Lab: New Survey Finds Model-Driven Culture Is Critical for Data Science Success While companies continue to realize the importance of data science and its ability to positively impact revenue, scaling it across an organization continues to be a challenge. A new survey released today reveals a new leading factor to success -- creating a positive, model-driven business culture among employees. This insight is one of the findings from a survey of data and analytics professionals sponso...

8 February 2020, Rome – The 47 th Session of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has kicked off today with a call to step up joint action towards a comprehensive transformation of global agri-food systems, in order to make them more inclusive, resilient and sustainable, as well as to tap their potential to contribute to the fight against poverty, hunger , all forms of malnutrition, and inequality. According to the FAO latest estimates, hunger is on the rise with nearly 690 million b...

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Sanofi, Capgemini, Generali and Orange announce plans to create a joint venture in France to fast-track the development of concrete healthcare solutions and to make them available to the market for the benefit of patients. The project, on a scale that is unique in Europe, will bring together leading scientific and technological expertise in France and Europe. It will benefit from both a virtual platform and a physical base located in Paris, linked to the « PariSanté Campus » initiative annou...