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Images: VPM As we count down to the end of the year, we’re counting down the top reasons to support VPM (in no particular order—we’d rank them all at number one if we could). 1. Locally-Produced and Locally-Focused Content VPM is dedicated to giving voice to the people of our community and shining a light on the issues and topics that impact our fellow central Virginians. Documentaries like “Why This Moment” and “HEARD” share first-hand accounts of real-life events as experienced ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of “Crime and Punishment”, once wrote, “The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.” Updated for the 21st century, our “degree of civilisation” might be revealed by the technology used inside them. For Microsoft, prisons represent a market. In recent years, the company and its business partners have started providing an array of surveillance and Big Data analytics solutions to prisons, courts and community supervision progr...

Chairman of the Forum and Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, who read the Communique to journalists in Makurdi, stressed the need for national interest as guiding principle for states in the region as he expalined that the meeting focused on common challenges of the zone to include, insecurity, economic and infrastructural deficits. “Member States in the zone to jointly appeal to the Federal Government to support the Zone in its ongoing Digital Technology project(s) and othe...

I-DESI 2020: How digital is Europe compared to other major world economies? EU countries outperform their global counterparts in terms of digital skills, from basic to advanced, but they consistently lag behind in the digitisation of public services, a newly published study shows. The International Digital Economy and Society Index (I-DESI) analyses how EU countries rank in terms of connectivity, digital skills, use of internet, integration of digital technology and digital public services in c...

Microsoft’s iron cage: Prison surveillance and e-carceration Michael Kwet © The exterior of Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois [File: REUTERS/Jim Vondruska] The exterior of Cook County Jail in Chicago, Illinois [File: REUTERS/Jim Vondruska] Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author of “Crime and Punishment”, once wrote, “The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.” Updated for the 21st century, our “degree of civilisation” might be revealed ...

North-Central governors call for unifying laws to deal with almajirai North-Central governors call for unifying laws to deal with almajirai Share North-Central Governors, on Monday, rose from their meeting and resolved to enact unified laws to deal with almajiri phenomenon. The governors who raised concern on insecurity in the region appealed to the Federal Government to support the zone in its ongoing Digital Technology project(s) and other security preventive measures to fight all forms of c...

Source: Samuel Adadi Akapule2020-12-20 Leveraging on digitization to improve health care delivery in deprived rural settings: The story of U/E region There is no doubt that technology is changing the landscape of service delivery across the globe and health care cannot be left behind. The World Health Organization (WHO) envisages the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right of every human being. In spite of this, the standard of health care continues to vary across nations...

Shell and Equinor combine digital forces to optimise inventory 16 Dec 2020 Equinor will develop the next generation of Shell Inventory Optimiser, a solution that leverages advanced analytics on historical data to optimise operational spare part inventory levels. Building on news of the recent Strategic Alliance with Shell, Microsoftwill be supporting Shell and Equinor with the co-development of the tool, which runs on Microsoft Azure. The goal is for energy companies to have better control o...

Alder Hey Successfully LIVE with New NHS 111 First Solution via MEDITECH EPR Alder Hey Successfully LIVE with New NHS 111 First Solution via MEDITECH EPR Alder Hey Childrens Hospital (Liverpool, UK) recently went LIVE with a new emergency department solution integrated into its MEDITECH Electronic Patient Record (EPR), enabling direct appointment scheduling from NHS 111, NHS 111 Online, and various national services. They are the first healthcare organisation in the region to develop and incorp...

Shell and Equinor combine digital forces to optimise inventory édité le 16/12/2020 - Plus de news de "Equinor" - Voir la fiche entreprise de "Equinor" Royal Dutch Shell and Equinor will develop the next generation of Shell Inventory Optimiser, a solution that leverages advanced analytics on historical data to optimise operational spare part inventory levels. Building on news of the recent Strategic Alliance with Shell, Microsoft will be supporting Shell and Equinor with the co-development of ...