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Tech careers for all: dispelling the myths around a role in technology

Despite efforts to level the playing field and encourage more women to consider a career in tech over the past few years, the figures are still nowhere near where they need to be.
Stats from the ONS in February revealed that fewer than a third of UK tech jobs are held by women and while this is a steady increase on the past few years, when you look at leadership and technical roles, the figures are far lower.
It’s difficult for me to digest these stats when I know a) how interesting, fulfilling and dynamic a career in tech can be, and b) just how much value women add to tech businesses. The stats speak for themselves. Companies with higher levels of equal representation are more profitable and companies with at least one woman on the board of directors outperform those without any women by 26%, according to Gartner figures.
My journey into tech
My own journey into the sector almost started after I graduated in business – I had the option of working on a graduate scheme for IBM or working for a toiletries company helping to run the retail accounts for the likes of M&S and Next. Contrary to where I am now, I chose the latter. Mostly due to the fact I could conceptualize where it fit and the supply chain was more obvious. IBM and what the business did other than hardware eluded me – and the IT world seemed slightly greyer back then.
Continue reading: https://wearetechwomen.com/tech-careers-for-all-dispelling-the-myths-around-a-role-in-technology/

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Here's What 2 Engineers Learned From Interviewing Some of the Most Powerful Women in Tech

Sam and Jenny are the cohosts of Techsetters, a podcast produced by Karlie Kloss and Kode With Klossy. This piece reflects their own opinions and not necessarily those of the Kode With Klossy team. Listen to the first and second season of Techsetters on Apple Podcasts. The third season of the podcast will be hosted live soon.
After graduating college from Columbia and Harvard, and working across technology, startups, and venture capital, we still questioned if we would ever feel like we belonged in Silicon Valley. Even though our degrees were in computer science, there were moments where others were surprised to see us participate in engineering teams or contribute to technical projects. We realized we had impostor syndrome and that it was pervasive among women in tech.
We started to seek out leaders from nontraditional backgrounds who forged their own dream roles, and seeing more examples helped us remember that there is no single path to success. And during this quest to find role models whom we could see ourselves in, we created our podcast, Techsetters.
Continue reading: https://www.popsugar.com/tech/advice-from-powerful-women-on-techsetters-podcast-48543663

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We need to do more to get women into STEM on Ada Lovelace Day

Today (12 Oct) marks Ada Lovelace Day, celebrated across the world. It aims to shine a light on the accomplishments of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths (STEM).  The hope is to encourage more girls to take up STEM subjects and careers by making them aware of the women already in these fields.  As Marian Wright Edelman, the civil rights activist noted, ``you can’t be what you can’t see.”
Ada Lovelace is the perfect woman to front this campaign.  Despite being born in 1815, when women received little or no formal education and over a century before any women could vote, she is widely credited as being the first computer programmer.   Though clearly a woman of great interest and intellect in her own right, Ada still often suffers from being spoken about in connection to men.  Her father was the famous romantic poet Lord Byron and after an acrimonious split, her mother apparently steered her towards studying more scientific subjects to avoid her following a path like her father’s.
Continue reading: https://www.fenews.co.uk/fevoices/77767-we-need-to-do-more-to-get-women-into-stem-on-ada-lovelace-day

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A journey through the lives of 4 women doing big things in African tech

The underrepresentation of women in the tech space continues to be a prevalent phenomenon in most parts of the world. A 2020 study by AnitaB.Org shows that of all hires made by tech companies in the US, 29.4% were women, while 69.9% were men.
Closer to home, Techpoint Africa’s West African Startup Decade Report 2020 corroborates the story in the US. It estimates that between 2010 and 2019, only 10% of West African startups with a female co-founder raised over $1 million. 
In Africa, the girl child’s access to education is still quite low. According to UNESCO 52 million girls are out of school. 
While these might seem like just numbers, it encompasses the story of many women who perceive the tech space as one reserved just for men. In Yanmo Omorogbe’s — Co-Founder, Bamboo  — opinion, seeing more women do things in tech might encourage more women to come in.
Continue reading: https://techpoint.africa/2021/10/11/women-in-african-tech/
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Listings for cryptocurrency and blockchain jobs skyrocket in 2021

Bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency based on blockchain technology, debuted in theory in 2008 and went live in 2009 (and at the outset, one Bitcoin—which peaked at almost $65,000 in April 2021—was valued at less than one cent when it first began trading in 2010). 
In its infancy, it quickly developed a staunch, small following among cryptographers, among others—mostly ones in awe of the sophisticated, seemingly immutable coding behind the bitcoin network. And yet, many initially deemed the digital coin as lacking any real staying power or real worth. (As an example, in May 2010—and what's considered the first commercial Bitcoin transaction—a software developer from Florida agreed to pay 10,000 Bitcoins to have delivered two Papa John's pizzas). As of this writing, that Bitcoin amount is worth roughly $557 billion
Since then, the need for professionals to work on and with digital assets has increased every year, particularly because they continue to become more and more mainstream and because of the rising amount of enterprises working with crypto and blockchain. And just because of the sheer number of digital coins that exist. 
Continue reading: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/listings-for-cryptocurrency-and-blockchain-jobs-skyrocket-in-2021/

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The Results are In: AI is Key to Building and Maintaining Customer Engagement

Today’s consumer companies and business-to-business (B2B) firms are finding themselves in a fast-paced, competitive race to attract and secure new clients.
One approach that’s increasingly gaining popularity is customer engagement. Customer engagement entails prioritizing long-term relationships with consumers and B2B clients. It’s about working to develop and maintain relationships throughout multiple interactions and across various channels.
The research suggests profound benefits for companies that invest in customer engagement solutions. At a glance:
  • Engaged customers result in a 23% premium over the average customer in terms of profitability, revenue and relationship growth.
  • Compared to non-engaged customers, engaged consumers buy 90% more frequently, spend 60% more per transaction and are 5 times more likely to stick to a brand in the future.
  • Companies that effectively engage customers are 2.2 times more likely to experience an increase in market share.
  • 66% of consumers did more business with at least one company because of good customer service.
Continue reading: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/results-ai-key-building-maintaining-124332856.html

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AI May Have A Thing Or Two To Learn From Our Imperfect Brains

It is very difficult to create an AI that can perform as well as the human brain. A new study by researchers at the Imperial College London, published on October 4th in Nature Communications, explores one reason why AI underperforms - their perfection.
“The most striking difference between humans and AI is that our learning seems to be much more robust,” senior author Dr. Dan Goodman told me. Humans are fantastic learners. Even babies can quickly learn to identify images or can generalize their learning in one area and apply it to another. “If you train them [AI] with one dataset and then test them on slightly different data they often fail spectacularly, whereas people do much better on this.”
“Humans can [also] learn with much less data than AI systems,” Goodman continues. “I can learn to recognize a new animal from just one or two pictures, whereas an AI system probably needs hundreds or thousands of examples.”
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/fernandezelizabeth/2021/10/11/ai-may-have-a-thing-or-two-to-learn-from-our-imperfect-brains/?sh=798057332f54

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Five Questions To Ask Before Embarking On An Enterprise AI Journey

Consumer AI — and its applications in social media, streaming services or self-driving cars — is talked about a lot in the news these days. These use cases are sometimes geared toward billions of users, require mass personalization and are generally domain agnostic.
Enterprise AI, on the other hand, is focused on a company's specific problems and usually requires domain expertise based on the use case, such as human resources, sales, procurement, sports, food or medicine. The opportunities and challenges in enterprise AI are unique, and it is important to pressure-test your readiness before you embark on an enterprise AI journey.
Here are five questions to ask before you get started:
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/10/11/five-questions-to-ask-before-embarking-on-an-enterprise-ai-journey/?sh=e017c7725f12

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Digital gender gap: men 50% more likely to be online in some countries – report

A failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet has cost low-income countries $1tn (£730bn) over the past decade and could mean an additional loss of $500bn by 2025 if governments don’t take action, according to new research.
Last year, governments in 32 countries, including India, Egypt and Nigeria, lost an estimated $126bn in gross domestic product because women were unable to contribute to the digital economy.
The digital gender gap – the difference between the number of women and men who can access the internet – cost $24bn in lost tax revenues in 2020, which could have been invested in health, education and housing, said the report.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former executive director of UN Women and founder of the Umlambo Foundation, said: “We will not achieve gender equality until we eliminate this digital gap that keeps so many women offline and away from the opportunities the internet provides.”
The study, conducted by the World Wide Web Foundation and the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), looked at 32 low- and lower-middle-income countries, where the gender gap is often greatest.
In those countries, a third of women were connected to the internet compared with almost half of men. The digital gender gap has barely improved since 2011, dropping just half a percentage point from 30.9% to 30.4%. Globally, men are 21% more likely to be online than women, rising to 52% in the least developed countries, said the report.
Various barriers prevent women and girls from going online, including expensive handsets and data tariffs, social norms that discourage women and girls from being online, fears around privacy, safety, and security and a lack of money – globally, women earn around 77 cents for each dollar a man earns.
Few governments have implemented specific policies to give women easier access to the internet, added the report. According to the A4AI’s 2020 Affordability Report, more than 40% of countries had no meaningful policies or programmes to expand women’s access to the internet.
Continue reading: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/11/digital-gender-gap-cost-low-income-countries-billions-india-egypt-nigeria-women

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The key industries that mobile edge computing is transforming

As we know that edge computing for businesses is revolutionary as it increases the speed of data processing and analysis. As per reports, the Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to grow significantly, predicted to reach about 1.6 trillion USD by 2025. Edge computing enables enterprises to process data at the location where it is being generated, which leads to reduction in latency.
The benefit of edge computing over cloud computing is the pace at which data is processed and analyzed. However, just like every other technology, edge computing is evolving too and new trends keep cropping up. One such trend is Mobile Edge Computing (MEC).
What is Mobile Edge Computing?
Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), also known as multi-access edge computing, is like the outermost edge. MEC is one step ahead of edge computing as it takes the storage and computation at the outermost edge of the network, where wireless edge intersects the infrastructure edge. Simply put, where mobile network meets the internet and its users.
Continue reading: https://www.crn.in/columns/the-key-industries-that-mobile-edge-computing-is-transforming/

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Transform Your Businesses Using On-demand Mobile Apps

The on-demand apps are becoming popular for several service providers, including the stylist, therapist, fitness trainers, healthcare professionals, and many other services. There are also payment methods and easy booking systems that make on-demand apps turn out to be the best.
The on-demand mobile app economy has been prompting over 22.4 million users annually to spend around $57.6 billion to get real-time services. The On-demand app development companies have been quite focused on the development strategies for these apps so that the apps perform better to match the expectations.
Overview of On-demand Mobile Apps
The on-demand service app always ensures that people will get access to goods and services immediately and from any place by just tapping on their smartphones. Always the on-demand apps ensure providing the platform where the customers can go ahead with ordering the essential products and services right from the convenience of their homes.
Continue reading: https://goodmenproject.com/business-ethics-2/transform-your-businesses-using-on-demand-mobile-apps/

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Best Ways to Implement a Master Data Management System

As companies leverage new technologies to gain insights about processes and operations, IT infrastructure, customers, vendors, and other stakeholders, they do it from two deliberate perspectives – analytical and operational. The analytics POV covers reporting and compliance aspects and optimizes partner and channel engagement. The operational POV assimilates the organization’s ‘best-version of truth’ via accurate and consistent data across the lines of business. Both of these perspectives pivot around efficient data management – a key to strategize business moves effectively.
In the digital day and age, Master Data Management (MDM) is no longer an additive. It is a crucial component for all enterprises, not only those who rely on inaccurate management reports or are awash in data deluge.
MDM allows companies to accelerate insights by delivering accurate, real-time views of critical master data, thereby increasing the innovation strike rate. Additionally, it increases revenue growth, improves productivity, customer satisfaction, and supply chain optimization.
In times of rapid growth and the resulting complexity, efficient MDM systems are sought after by organizations desirous to anchor decisions in high-quality managed information and accurate analytics. Amidst all these ‘data-fixing’ endeavors, often businesses – to their detriment – forget that implementing Master Data Management may be a technology decision, but its overall approach is a business one. Like any other enterprise-wide implementation, MDM, too, focuses on two approaches – the ‘rear-view’, and ‘windscreen view’ (the past and the future). So, enhancing past data purity is equally essential as altering business processes and reinventing organizational governance to ensure future data does not degrade.
Continue reading: https://customerthink.com/best-ways-to-implement-a-master-data-management-system/

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10 data management mistakes we commonly see

Many of us interact with data as part of our day-to-day work. Suppose if you are a college employee, you will need to handle data every day. Whether you are an Administrator or classified staff, faculty, confidential and supervisory employee, irregular wage worker, or even work-study student, data handling will surely be a part of your life. This was just an example but data management is a crucial part of our daily life regardless of the profession we are in. In this article, we will be discussing what data management is and why is it Important.
What is Data Management?
The formal definition of data management comes from the Data Management Association International, Which states that “Data management refers to the development and execution of architectures, policies, practices, and procedures, in order to manage the information cycle of an enterprise in an effective manner”. It may sound a bit vague and complex to understand. To be more precise, we can infer that, Data management is simply the management of information. In fact, data is information, in many incarnations. For example, some of the kinds of data that the college often works with are student and employee records, like registration and enrolment information, grades, addresses, legal names, payroll and tax documents, emergency contact info, and lots more. You might not have realized how often you interact with data while you work and that is why data management is so important. It means that the information we work with should be accurate, consistent, and secure.
Continue reading: https://www.how2shout.com/technology/10-data-management-mistakes-we-commonly-see.html

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Capitalizing on Internet of Everyday Things: How Every Product Tells a Story

What makes some online marketplaces so successful? How have they turned retail (and logistics, for that matter) on its head? The answer is intelligence.
Thanks to digital technology and an expansive network infrastructure, some online marketplaces know more about the demand chain that it’s built between brands and consumers than most traditional retailers can possibly grasp. They know when customers consider a product by their clicks. They know where the product is located and the quickest way to get it into customers’ hands. They know if a customer liked the product based on reviews and has a fairly good idea if and when the customer will buy it again. And, in some situations, they even know if a customer used the product a while, then sold it to someone else—on an online marketplace.
These online marketplaces have fused digital marketplace with end-to-end intelligence, something that traditional retailers—for lack of a similar digital infrastructure—struggle to replicate. But, that’s changing.
It turns out, you don’t need to be a tech giant to know exactly when a product comes off the manufacturing line, where it’s physically located in a brick-and-mortar store, or when a customer tries, purchases and takes it home. The time is even coming when retailers, brands and others along the demand chain can gain insight—in real time—into how products of all types are transported, maintained, used, consumed, re-used and even recycled. All it takes is digital intelligence, integrated seamlessly and cost-effectively into products, packaging, processes and more. That infrastructure already exists.
Continue reading: https://www.sdcexec.com/software-technology/e-commerce-solutions/article/21659955/wiliot-capitalizing-on-internet-of-everyday-things-how-every-product-tells-a-story

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What’s A Smart Building Or IoT Appliance Without On-Demand Repair And Maintenance?

Covid-19 is forcing real estate developers and facility managers to rethink many aspects of the buildings they build and oversee — and investing in smart building systems and software is one of them. A KRC research report says up to 70% of United States facility managers are now more willing to invest in smart building solutions.
A smart building is defined by the Intelligent Building Institute as “one that provides a productive and cost-effective environment through optimization of its four basic elements — structure, systems, services and management.”
In other words, smart buildings allow for the automatic centralized control of a building’s systems, including HVAC, electrical, lighting, shading, security systems and more. For example, the integration of an internet of things (IoT) platform into an HVAC system can help manage and monitor air filtration.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/10/11/whats-a-smart-building-or-iot-appliance-without-on-demand-repair-and-maintenance/?sh=65aa4044a950

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How IoT Transforms Facilities Management Processes

The increased availability of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has allowed facility managers to implement automation which was previously impossible with legacy facilities management systems. IoT devices have also allowed facilities managers to gather a rich data set that allows for more data-driven decisions.
Utilization Based Facilities Management
Traditional equipment maintenance involves scheduled inspections. Regardless of usage, equipment is serviced at regular intervals or cleaning arranged at regular frequencies. Clearly, for equipment or spaces where use is irregular, such an approach is inefficient. IoT sensors allow granular monitoring of equipment utilization. For example, people counters can be deployed to count persons entering a toilet, and cleaners deployed only when a fixed number of persons have used it.
Tracking Asset Locations in Real-time
IoT technology can make assets location-aware. Indoor positioning technologies utilize RFID or Bluetooth to enable facilities managers to track the indoor positions of critical assets in real-time. Without IoT, location tracking of assets can be very tedious and error-prone, with users having to report the latest locations manually. Accurate real-time knowledge of asset location often also translates to the need to store less inventory. For example, in a hospital with portable ultrasound machines, finding out where these machines reduce handover time to the following user and optimize their utilization.
Continue reading: https://www.iotforall.com/how-iot-transforms-facilities-management-processes

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When Girls Have Access to Technologies, A True Digital Revolution Will Be In Sight

This year’s International Day of the Girl theme, Digital Generation, Our Generation, celebrates the potential of digital technologies while calling for the inclusion of all girls in accessing technology. The digital revolution will not be realized if girls without access to digital solutions are left behind. For years, advocates of technology for development have been repeating the mantra that technology is not a panacea. Yet in racing to connect, catch up, and create greater access, we ignore at our own peril the inconsistent or non-existent household- and community-level access girls have to technologies. While digital solutions are available and evolving all the time, they should be accompanied by hybrid methods which include new ways to use analog technologies, so that existing local resources are reimagined and redistributed in ways that support more girls learning.
If we want to ensure equal access to technology to close the gender digital divide, these on-the-ground realities are critical to decision-making and planning. To be clear, the global COVID-19 pandemic amplified digital platforms for learning, training, and connecting, but at the same time some 2.2 billion young people below the age of 25 still do not have internet access at home. Girls do not have equal access to or equal ownership of phones or tablets in the home, and they lack opportunities to gain the digital literacy, which would enable them to grow their own learning, expand their information sources, or communicate with others. The gender digital divide has increased in recent years, with only 15% of women in lower- and middle- income countries using the internet. Globally, girls have significantly less access to the internet, tablets, mobile phones, radio, and television than boys, further exacerbated by household poverty levels, geography, disability, and competing social cultural norms. An estimated 52% of girls have to borrow a mobile phone if they want access compared to 28% of boys. These technological gender gaps are most often due to girls and women lacking access, skills, familiarity with tools, representation and participation in STEM, and leadership and resource support to become champions within the technology sector.
Continue reading: http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/10/girls-access-technologies-true-digital-revolution-will-sight/

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Girls Who Code Campaign Empowers Young Women to ‘Make That Change’ by Pursuing Careers in Tech

Today, Girls Who Code, an international non-profit working to close the gender gap in technology, launched 'Make That Change', a multimedia campaign with a bold new message for girls: when you learn to code, you can make the change you want to see in the world, and, by choosing a tech career, make change in your own life too. 
Each year on International Day of the Girl, Girls Who Code celebrates the incredible power of young women around the world -- the power of uplifting each other in a global sisterhood, and, most importantly, the power of harnessing technology to create the future we want to live in. 
“With my generation, we look up to influencers and artists as having careers where they can make an impact or make money. Just because those careers seem ‘cooler’ than STEM.” said Yula Ye, creative at Mojo Supermarket. “We wanted to show the real side of STEM, with real women that are making change in the world and making change in their bank accounts.”
The campaign kicks-off with a video highlighting real women in STEM who are making change in their communities and Girls Who Code Alumni who are following in their footsteps -- and gives them the glamorous, hip-hop treatment they’ve earned. The women featured include: 
Continue reading: https://www.lbbonline.com/news/girls-who-code-campaign-empowers-young-women-to-make-that-change-by-pursuing-careers-in-tech
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Day of the Girl Child: A Digital Generation Where Every Girl Counts

The theme of this year’s annual International Day of the Girl Child, on October 11, “Digital generation. Our generation.”, recognizes the digital transformation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. But while the pandemic accelerated the transition to online learning, working and networking, it also accelerated women and girl’s risk of being left behind.
In 2020, more than 60 million women in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) had no access to the mobile internet and so, were more likely than men to miss out on learning and working opportunities.
Access, ownership and use of digital tools are not gender-neutral: For instance, parents may be stricter with girls than boys in the use of mobile phones and activities that require the use of the internet, while households with limited computing resources might redirect these to boys and men over girls and women, often tasked with domestic chores and unpaid work. Factors such as affordability and cost also affect women and girls disproportionally.
Moreover, social norms, gender bias and a lack of support from the family and teachers often dissuade girls and women from choosing education programs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and from pursuing careers in these fields.
Continue reading: http://www.ipsnews.net/2021/10/day-girl-child-digital-generation-every-girl-counts/

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Why schools are failing female students for success in tech careers

Holly Smith, Senior Solutions Consultant, Databricks, explores why our current education system still falls short in helping female students navigate careers in tech
This has been a stellar year for A-level results, with girls doing particularly well, even gaining higher grades in subjects taken by more boys, such as math and computing. Though, therein lies a problem. Girls do well in traditionally “male” subjects but there are still far fewer girls that take them.
When it comes to the next steps and careers, schools are failing female students, particularly with those trying to break into the tech world. With girls surpassing boys this year in subjects such as math (a good door opener for careers in tech) now is the time to ensure that they’re being properly set up for success.
Continue reading: https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/why-schools-are-failing-female-students-for-success-in-tech-careers/122077/

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“Working in this tech sector as a woman, you have to be just a little bit better"

World Space Week was marked throughout last week in over 95 countries around the world, including Israel. World Space Week is regarded as an international celebration of science and technology, and its contribution to the betterment of humanity. Israel, which has its own separate weeklong event commemorating fallen first-Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, participated actively for the first time in the event, by holding a week of lectures and activities, uniting experts from across the civilian and government aerospace industry.
In an exclusive panel, several top female space experts from Brunei, Australia, Singapore, Israel, and the United States, discussed their challenges and accomplishments working in the space tech sector, as well as the future of the skyrocketing industry.
Continue reading: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3919415,00.html

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Why state and local law enforcement needs legal authority from Congress to counteract dangerous drones

In the past 10 months, the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Police Department has written 22 city ordinance violations for drones flying in the City of Fort Wayne’s downtown aerial district. While your own department has likely also seen incidents rise, what you may not know is that four federal agencies currently hold all legal authority to mitigate dangerous drones.
The law currently states that only those working for the DHS, DOD, DOE and the DOJ are legally allowed to mitigate and intercept a threatening drone. And while there can be cases argued for protocol, these laws can and should be updated to include granting authority to state and local law enforcement to help take down drones in order to effectively protect the communities in which we serve.
ANATOMY OF A DRONE THREAT
New technologies are designed to safely detect and mitigate dangerous drones. As our agency learned through counter-drone training through New Mexico Tech, we manage a drone by first detecting it, then identifying it, tracking it, assessing if hostile, responding and reporting as needed. But in this case, "respond" doesn’t necessarily mean "mitigate."
The "respond" step usually entails tracking down the operator and asking them to remove the drone or face fines, or capturing the drone itself for evidence. At this point, it’s not legal for law enforcement to take down a drone. The best tool we currently have is a written citation, which won’t stop someone if they truly want to cause harm.
Continue reading: https://www.police1.com/police-products/police-drones/articles/why-state-and-local-law-enforcement-needs-legal-authority-from-congress-to-counteract-dangerous-drones-Cer6e9HCGbfZvDRr/

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Drones to Manage Powerline Vegetation: Routescene UAV LiDAR

The latest in a series of forestry based case studies conducted by Routescene showcases the value of remote sensing techniques like UAV LiDAR for identifying diseased or damaged trees and overgrown vegetation close to powerlines to prevent outages or forest fires.
The project at Pound Farm in Suffolk, UK sought to identify ailing trees and overgrown vegetation that posed a risk of damaging the 33kV power lines running through the 120 acre forest. Routescene collaborated with 2Excel GeoFera Science and Dielmo 3D in order to provide the results to the Woodland Trust that owns the land.
In recent years, the forest has been affected by the highly destructive fungal disease known as Ash dieback. Capable of killing ash trees quickly, its symptoms include a blackening and wilting of leaves in mid to late summer.
LiDAR, RGB, Multispectral and Hyperspectral imaging techniques were each employed to determine their ability to identify signs of Ash dieback.
Continue reading: https://dronelife.com/2021/10/10/drones-to-manage-powerline-vegetation-routescene-uav-lidar/

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Blockchain and NFTs: How to make sense of crypto terminology

Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin (BTC-USD) and Ethereum (ETH-USD) are soaring in value and forecasted to reach new all-time highs. 
The latest bull run has caused interest in cryptocurrencies to rise from traditional and institutional investors. 
However, one obstacle that makes investors hesitate are the unfamiliar acronyms, memes and technical jargon associated with the crypto-sphere.
Many investors follow the maxim of Warren Buffet that you should “invest in what you know… and nothing more”. 
So to understand the world of cryptocurrencies investors must not only learn the crypto-equivalent of traditional terminology associated with stocks and bonds, but also a host of new concepts, such as smart contracts, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and decentralized exchanges (DEXs).
Continue reading: https://news.yahoo.com/blockchain-and-nfts-how-to-make-sense-of-crypto-terminology-230129456.html

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Blockchain Filling Takes Root In Wyoming

The beauty of blockchain technology is that it is so varied and complex in its capabilities. From creating cryptocurrencies to managing supply chains to enabling secure voting, it seems there is no limit to what blockchain can do. 
It also seems that the U.S. state of Wyoming has recognized this because shortly after passing a law making it the first U.S. state to recognize Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), it has also introduced a bill to facilitate blockchain filing. 
DAOs On The Rise
Working closely with Wyoming legislators and the department of state, BLOCKS DAO is the first-ever legally registered DAO LLC. Committed to onboarding traditional industries onto blockchain through a system of progressive decentralization, BLOCKS is founded on the belief that blockchain should be for everyone. Enterprises are already seeing the tremendous value that BLOCKS can bring to the table, with insiders telling IBTimes that there are a handful of groundbreaking partnerships on the horizon between BLOCKS and enterprise companies.
Continue reading: https://www.ibtimes.com/blockchain-filling-takes-root-wyoming-3313506

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