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Digital Giveback Campaign 2021 Overview

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: It’s no surprise that the COVID 19 pandemic has exacerbated a growing digital divide across the country. To help bridge the divide, Qualcomm Incorporated collaborated with Computers 2 Kids to host their second annual Digital Give Back Campaign, intending to provide digital devices to the many local students in need.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . The city’s appetite for tech drove a great deal of investment in automation and digitization. .

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ESG Considerations for Data Centers: Leading the Way to a Sustainable Digital Future

3BL Media

Academically, there are some nuanced differences between the two terms. Environmental Considerations Data centers are critical infrastructure for the modern digital economy, but their exponential growth and the need for precise environmental controls (that come with large cooling towers) has resulted in significant environmental impacts.

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Earth Day: How We’re Helping Our Social and Environmental Systems Heal and Thrive

3BL Media

We partner with organizations to create and scale innovative digital solutions that promote a healthy planet and advance the well-being and self-reliance of underserved communities globally. Since 2019, GWCR has removed over 70 tons of beach waste and planted hundreds of trees in collaboration with community and corporate volunteers.

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Solar-powered computers to accelerate digital literacy in Madagascar

Envirotec Magazine

The computers will go to schools that do not have access to reliable power, helping to reduce a gulf in digital literacy arising from a lack of energy access. The computers are built here in Madagascar, supporting the development of local digital and engineering jobs.

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Waste concrete to be repurposed into public furniture using additive manufacturing

Envirotec Magazine

Waste concrete from demolished buildings is to be reinvented and made into new custom-made outdoor memorials and public garden furniture with the help of 3D printing, in a new £6m project. The post Waste concrete to be repurposed into public furniture using additive manufacturing first appeared on Envirotec. Concrete 3D printing.

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The time to act on gender inequality in the workplace is now

Corporate Knights

To echo Winston Churchill’s words from the Second World War : we cannot “let a good crisis go to waste.” We will waste the COVID-19 crisis if we don’t address the inequalities — specifically the gender inequalities — the pandemic both exacerbated and revealed. It also made women’s unpaid work more visible than it had ever been before.

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