Interviews, Articles and Technologies Related to the UN SDGs
Technology and SDG 4 – Quality Education
Introduction and definition of SDG 4:
Linking with many other SDGs, SDG 4 aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education, promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Whilst a majority of the reporting on this goal focuses on young people, the importance of lifelong learning and gender equitable education opportunities are also high. In 2018, 773 million adults (two thirds of them women) had below-adequate reading and writing skills, and classified as illiterate.
Flood Warning Technologies, Open Data & News
SDGs: 4,6,9,11,12,13,17Looking at Technological innovation for climate change mitigation, in particular flood warning technologies, and other news
Already making a positive impact
SDGs: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16Now, that’s a lot of SDGs! 👆Well, this is why… Last week I launched the new “Choose Your Impact” feature on the website. This exciting new feature allows anyone to
Sustainability, Greenwashing and other News
SDGs: 2,3,4,7,8,11,12,13,17Looking at how big companies with a troubled past need to address sustainability without greenwashing. Plus other TechWithPurpose news
GLOMO awards 2021 shortlist – Sustainability Technology In Mobile
SDGs: 1,3,4,5,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17Sustainability Technology In the mobile industryThe ‘GLOMOS’ are the mobile industry’s annual awards for innovation in the mobile industry. I’ve been honoured to be invited to judge them for a number
The New Literacy: The Code generation
SDGs: 4,5,8,9,10,17No Moore Law Last year Editor of the MIT review David Rotman heralded a warning that we are not ready for the end of Moore’s Law “It has fuelled prosperity
Artificial Trees, Water Purification, GPS Plastic and VR/AR Tourism.
SDGs: 2,4,6,7,8,11,14,15,16In this week’s Tech With Purpose news summary: Carbon breathing and oxygen emitting artificial trees, Carlsberg Group and Desolenator making clean water, a new hydrogen facility in Glasgow, New York
Investors look to AI in Education to raise US Literacy, ClimateTech FOMO
SDGs: 4,8,13,15Today’s TechWithPurpose news summary picks up on a couple of articles relating to AI in education, in particular one that cites the US post-high-school literacy rate of just 34% (at
More Accessible XR Development, Teaching Nature, Future of Tech4Good
SDGs: 3,4,12,14,15This week’s new summary includes artificial intelligence to help small and medium sized businesses with ESG, a weekly Tech4Good webinar with SAP’s Futurist, open roles in a climate accelerator, a
IoT Protects Water, AI & Microbes, Printing Lungs
SDGs: 3,4,6,13In today’s Tech With Purpose News Summary you will find articles that cover LED technology that can disinfect using visible light (not ultra-violet!), how broadband is helping Telefoncia leverage the
Citizens, Humans, Tech For Our Good
SDGs: 3,4,13,15In this issue of my Tech With Purpose news summary, I find interesting news about how artificial intelligence is helping tackle climate change, how it is helping weather models predict
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