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A Forbes piece touts the top 10 hot artificial intelligence technologies and the race to capitalize on the exploding AI market. Wired reveals AI is about to conquer poker. There are even reports that NASA wants to use drones and AI to search for...
Article - 01/25/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Wellness
It's heartening to see more and more hackathons focusing on solutions that promote compassion and the social good. Another great example comes from Jerusalem, an event put on by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Israel (JDC-Israel...
Article - 01/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
Everyone wants healthy communities – but often the challenge for city leaders is pinpointing risk factors so appropriate action can be taken. Experts say most health-related data in the U.S. isn't available at the city level. But a new tool being...
Article - 01/24/2017
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
Telemedicine innovators, thought leaders and many of the largest tech companies – including Council Partners Qualcomm, Microsoft and Intel – gathered in San Jose, CA last week for the Telehealth Failures & Secrets to Success conference. It was...
Article - 12/04/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
The premise behind the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve initiative seems to be that the more bright minds you can focus on solving some of the world's toughest challenges, the better the solutions will be. It's a smart approach,...
Article - 12/03/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Wellness
For those of you who remember collecting pennies for UNICEF as kids, you may find the modern-day UNICEF quite interesting. It's using its 190 offices, 12,000 staff and a VC-style investment portfolio to source and support startups that more...
Article - 11/18/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Upward Mobility, Wellness
A charity in Bolivia is using a social media strategy to bring joy to lonely seniors by recruiting young people to engage with them. With an aging global population, it's a compassionate model worth exploring elsewhere – a way to promote social...
Article - 11/15/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
Governments need to treat opioid addiction as an illness, not a criminal act, the UN's chief of drug prevention said during a recent conference in Baltimore. Today opioid addicts are discriminated against and victims of stigma, Dr. Gilbert Gerra...
Article - 11/07/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness
A report released earlier this year by the National Institute of Health and Census Bureau suggests 617 million people in the world today are age 65 or older. But that number is expected to jump nearly 17% -- to 1.6 billion – by 2050. Furthermore,...
Article - 11/01/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Compassionate Cities, Wellness
An estimated 36% of cancer that occurs around the world today is preventable – as is the pain and suffering that goes along with it. Council Lead Partner Deloitte is determined to change that with a 'Match.com-type platform' to drive collaboration...
Article - 10/28/2016
Active Region(s): Main, North America, Compassionate Cities
Category: Wellness