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COVID-19, 3D printing and the digital supply chain reckoning

GreenBiz

COVID-19, 3D printing and the digital supply chain reckoning. Proponents of 3D printing technology and digital manufacturing solutions have been seeking their breakthrough moment for years. The global 3D printing market was worth about $12 billion in 2019, with a compound annual growth rate of 14 percent predicted from 2020 to 2027.

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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

The company, Global MaaS, had built an app that provides city-dwellers with a digital one-stop shop for all sorts of travel options – transit, taxis, ride hailing, bike sharing, and so on. As of late 2019, Global MaaS had raised almost €54 million ($84 million) from investors including BP and Mitsubishi.

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UNESCO Publishes Motorola and Lenovo Foundation’s White Paper on Digital Inclusion of Indigenous Languages

3BL Media

With support from Lenovo Foundation , Motorola jointly collaborated with UNESCO to publish a white paper detailing Motorola’s Indigenous Languages Digitization process with the aim to strengthen global focus on digital inclusion. Additionally, UNESCO categorizes Ladin as definitely endangered.

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Digital technology, green finance in vogue among fashion’s sustainability trendsetters

GreenBiz

Digital technology, green finance in vogue among fashion’s sustainability trendsetters. Digital technology will play a pivotal role in addressing information transparency and environmental reporting in the fashion industry by facilitating data collection along the supply chain. Phylicia Wu. Wed, 08/05/2020 - 01:00.

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Bacardi Is Putting Money Behind People To Make Sure AI Doesn’t Replace Your Bartender

3BL Media

In 2019, for example, U.K. Last year, Diageo introduced a digital platform called Whats Your Cocktail?, Just as artificial intelligence has crept into professions like finance, retail, and content creation, its been heading for the corner pub, too. which uses the companys FlavorPrint AI technology to generate personalized libations.

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Booming secondhand clothing sales could help curb the sustainability crisis in fashion

GreenBiz

secondhand clothing market is projected to more than triple in value in the next 10 years — from $28 billion in 2019 to $80 billion in 2029 — in a U.S. In 2019, secondhand clothing expanded 21 times faster than conventional apparel retail did. The market value of this sector reached $2 billion in 2019.

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Embrace Your Possible, Embrace Digital

Cisco CSR

We’ve come a long way since our in-person Cisco Live in 2019. Whether it’s how we consume entertainment, move applications or systems to the cloud, or immerse in hybrid work, everything has gone digital. With this huge leap, Cisco is in a unique position to help you embrace digital. Business as we know it will never be the same.