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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.

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The multi-billion-dollar paper jam: Unlocking trade by digitalizing documentation

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Trade documentation is a paper-intensive and resource-consuming process. An electronic bill of lading could save $6.5 billion in direct costs and enable $40 billion in global trade.

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Pursuing Sustainability and Productivity Gains With Digital Project Delivery

3BL Media

WSP's Digital Project Delivery white paper explores how to enable projects to be built faster and with less risk. The way in which we deliver projects is steadily evolving, from hand-drawn to increasingly digital forms of delivery. In this white paper part 1 we explore: Global Digital Project Delivery Overview. SOURCE: WSP.

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Fueling digital operations with analog data

McKinsey Sustainabilty

Intelligent document processing, with humans in the loop, allows companies to bridge the business operations gap between the analog and digital worlds.

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Digital Public Infrastructure for the Developing World

Stanford Social Innovation

This lady in a remote rural location not only had a digital bank account that allowed her to receive digital payments, but she had the proof of identity needed for such an account: a unique 12-digit number linked to her biometrics, her Aadhaar. After producing a hot cup of masala chai, she gave us a QR code to make our payment.

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ESG reporting is becoming increasingly investor-grade — and siloed

GreenBiz

The result: A single source of truth but an overwhelming, unwieldy document whose purpose often is poorly understood by internal audiences. Its 2019 sustainability report , for example, features a menu of links to a comprehensive data resource and all reporting frameworks from every page of its digital report.

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Improving the Next Generation’s Digital Proficiency Through Volunteerism

3BL Media

We have a world of digital technology here to explore,” said Coulette, Otis Director, Digital Technology, North America. Otis volunteers like Coulette step up to help community partners who are working with younger generations to ensure they instill both STEM and digital awareness skills. FARMINGTON, Conn.,