Siemens partners with UN Women Germany for an upskilling program benefiting over 600 young African women in South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, and Uganda. The initiative includes coding camps, mentoring, and workshops on digital literacy, programming, work readiness, and personal development. The program aims to bridge the ICT gender gap and empower women to pursue careers in the technology sector. Siemens has allocated €780,000 and will provide laptops to participants. The collaboration with UN Women Germany seeks to address gender inequalities and promote educational equality for girls in Africa. The program also aims to improve employability and contribute to transformative growth in the region.
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A Shift in Strategy: Twitter’s Decision to Leave the EU’s Disinformation Code of Practice.
Exploring Twitter’s surprising decision to withdraw from the EU’s disinformation code of practice. Understand the implications of this move on the future of online misinformation, the changing landscape of content moderation, and the role of social media giants in combating disinformation.
Can a photograph change the world?
Portraying injustices is not something novel. From the beginning of the twentieth century to present day, many photographers have been concerned about leaving their mark. But can we try to change the world – even make it a better place – through a photograph?
Industrial Operations X brings cutting-edge IT and AI to industrial automation.
Industrial Operations X is a continuously growing interoperable portfolio of products and services for product engineering, execution, and optimization. This offering brings more information technology (IT) and software capabilities to automation and production operations, making industrial operations more adaptable and people centric.
Siemens and Microsoft drive industrial productivity with generative artificial intelligence
With the new Teamcenter app for Microsoft Teams, anticipated later in 2023, the companies are enabling design engineers, frontline workers and teams across business functions to close feedback loops faster and solve challenges together. For example, service engineers or production operatives can use mobile devices to document and report product design or quality concerns using natural speech. Through Azure OpenAI Service, the app can parse that informal speech data, automatically creating a summarized report and routing it within Teamcenter to the appropriate design, engineering or manufacturing expert. To foster inclusion, workers can record their observations in their preferred languages which is then translated into the official company language with Microsoft Azure AI.
The market potential of the Industrial Metaverse is estimated to reach around $100 billion in 2030
This document provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of the industrial sector. It highlights the importance of using technology to drive growth and innovation. I highly recommend reading it to learn more about this exciting concept!
The Wall Street Journal, Economist and Financial Times all now have female editors – what does it mean for business?
Women in business are more likely to be known by women in the media, something that academics call “homophily” (the tendency for people who are similar to seek out each other’s company). Success breeds success, so being appointed to these jobs means that the women taking them are more likely to meet other successful women, a concept known as “preferential attachment”.
Liver King: how the rise of mega-influencers has put consumers at risk
In the age of vloggers, influencers and content creators it might seem hard to imagine a world without YouTube. But back when the first ever video was uploaded in April 2005, showing a man visiting a zoo, it was not really clear who would want to watch it, or how YouTube could make money.
New research reveals ‘Top 10 Most Accessible Cities’ in the world
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How can we include people with disabilities in the design of the Metaverse?
How can we include people with disabilities in the design of the Metaverse?