SAS AI-powered deforestation detection app recognised as world-changing Sunday, 27 June 2021 17:54 SAS AI-powered deforestation detection app recognised as world-changing
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Analytics software and solutions company SAS received was honourably mentioned in the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards for its joint project with the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis tracking the human impact in the Amazon rainforest. It is one of many social innovation projects from SAS employees inspired to apply data to solve pressing humanitarian issues.
The honour came on World Rainforest Day last week, under the AI and Data category of the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards. The awards honour businesses, policies, projects and concepts which actively and deeply pursue innovations in the realm of health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.
Words are powerful, but ending inequity will require much more than euphoric language. Less than a month after George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was white, the City of Arlington created its much-heralded “Unity Council.”
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Well Read: Patricia Parker Discusses Her Book “Ella Baker’s Catalytic Leadership: A Primer on Community Engagement and Communication for Social Justice”
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The University Libraries invites you to a discussion with Carolina faculty member Patricia Parker
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Join us for this virtual event where Parker will be joined in conversation by Monica Figueroa, interim librarian for inclusive excellence at the University Libraries. Parker will also answer audience questions.
Ella Baker (1903–1986) was an influential African American civil rights and human rights activist. For five decades, she worked behind the scenes with people in vulnerable communities to catalyze social justice leadership. Her steadfast belief in the power of ordinary people to create change continues to inspire social justice activists around the world.
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Barbadian public relations consultant
Dr Pamala Proverbs, Managing Director of
PRMR Inc. has copped the Graduate Student of the Year award in the prestigious US-based PRNEWS CSR and Diversity Awards.
The CSR and Diversity Awards serve as a platform to recognize communicators from diverse multicultural backgrounds, public relations professionals from all genders and sexual orientations, and those with disabilities. The Diversity Awards strive to amplify the voices and talents of professionals from marginalized communities and serve as a celebration of the social efforts public relations professionals make every day to ensure an inclusive future for the industry.