Access to Technology

The P&G water purification technology is an amazing innovation that quickly turns 10 liters of dirty, potentially deadly water into clean and drinkable water.

The human brain is exposed to around 100,500 words per day – 23 words per second according to a University of California-San Diego study. Each day, our brains take in an average of 34 gigabytes of information, enough information to crash a computer within one week. This information overload especially affects students in school today, who are more connected to the internet than any other generation. To prepare their students for the 21st century, educators must arm students with strategies to navigate and process the vast amount of information they consume to help them distinguish fact from fiction. In my classroom, I use a program called Ignite My Future in School to address this information overload and to help my students become more conscientious about how they evaluate information.

Through its sponsorship of the Colorado Succeeds Prize, Arrow Electronics is helping Colorado high school students virtually collaborate with their counterparts in the storm-ravaged U.S. commonwealth of Saipan. Part of the Northern Marina Islands, Saipan is still recovering from the super typhoon Yutu, which decimated the island in October 2018.

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation is proud to be the presenting sponsor of The Everglades Foundation’s George Barley Water Prize, the largest prize of its kind dedicated to finding a solution to water pollution caused by algal blooms.

On February 19, the four finalist teams––who are committed to delivering cost-effective technologies to clean polluted fresh water and reverse this environmental catastrophe––took their first step toward the Grand Challenge.

In a WBEC Pacific blog first, we got the chance to sit down with Julia Arnold, Supplier Diversity Program Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE); to gather their thoughts on how WBEs can maximize their time with corporations like HPE, and how HPE is stepping up to support, partner with, and employ women in business.

In business, government, philanthropy and the arts, and all over the globe, we need leaders who are transforming the world and inspiring others to do the same. The Forum of Young Global Leaders (YGLs) aims to do just that. It brings together a diverse, dynamic, and globally representative group of leaders with the mission to create a community with the vision, courage, and influence to drive positive change in the world.

Alex Keros, Smart Cities Chief at GM Urban Mobility/Maven, recently published a LinkedIn post around our commitment to sustainable and livable cities, further emphasized by Maven’s signing of the Shared Mobility Principles.

The mining industry is adopting automation in many areas to improve the safety of workers and increase efficiencies.

At Goldcorp’s Musselwhite mine, new applications have been tested underground in the blasting process, which indicates a decisive step on the path towards full automation of drill and blast operations in the future.

Each year, Mining Magazine celebrates excellence in the mining industry by inviting their readers to nominate people, companies or groups that they feel have demonstrated outstanding commitment to advancing the state of play in mining over the past 12 months. Goldcorp’s project at Red Lake with the IBM Exploration with Watson solution has won the Exploration category for its application of artificial intelligence to predict the potential for gold mineralization using powerful search and query capabilities across a range of exploration datasets.

OmniVis is developing a handheld device that works with smartphones to detect cholera in water samples. With the help of IoT technology, it can analyze and identify the bacteria within 30 minutes of collection.