Working more than a year under pandemic conditions threw into sharp relief what Vicki Klaker wanted from her career—and wasn’t getting.
At first, the marketing specialist and mother of five plowed through the long days of working from her home near Wichita, Kan., while overseeing her children’s online learning.
Soon, though, “remote work was a double-edged sword,” the 38-year-old says.
Being more available to her family was gratifying and made her wonder whether another line of work would let her spend more time with them. In her corporate job at a fast-growing restaurant chain, working from home meant monitoring emails often into the evening, leaving her both depleted and unfulfilled.
“I realized, ‘I’m not being fulfilled because I’m not helping people, and I don’t want to waste any more time,’ ” says Mrs. Klaker, who had always dreamed of becoming a teacher. This spring, she applied for a position at an area school district and, to her surprise, got it. As of last month, she teaches high-school students how to code and build websites, and isn’t looking back. “My definition of success has changed,” she says.
The pandemic has been especially brutal for women. They suffered a disproportionate number of layoffs, took on more home responsibilities and made more career sacrifices to manage the collapse of in-school learning and child-care arrangements, research shows.
But those stresses have also motivated many women to redefine their ambitions and reset the terms of their careers. Some, like Mrs. Klaker, are forging new careers to pursue old passions or switching to jobs better suited to family lives. Some are starting new businesses, while others have moved to far-flung places or taken a pause to plot their next career move. And many are taking the leap to bigger roles, but with greater expectations of work flexibility than in pre-Covid-19 times.
A burnout crisis
New, major research shows just how restless—and spent—many professional women are. Thousands of men and women surveyed this summer for the seventh annual Women in the Workplace study by McKinsey & Co. and LeanIn.Org reported burnout at even higher rates than last year—by then, several months into the pandemic. But women appear to be feeling the exhaustion more acutely. About 42% said they felt burned out often or almost always, compared with 35% of men. Among female team managers, more than half described themselves as burned out, while 41% of their male peers did.
Continue reading: https://www.wsj.com/articles/womens-careers-covid-19-toll-11632506362

“Education is the only way towards a better life,” says Faiza Yousuf, founder of WomenInTechPK, the biggest tech community for women technologists in Pakistan.
“For women in South Asia, especially, education is their ticket towards self-reliance and financial independence. I think everyone, no matter their gender, race, ethnicity, and abilities, should get equal opportunities for getting an education as well as to be financially independent,” says the young Karachi-based changemaker.
Her organisation has been making waves in the local tech industry due to its programmes and activism. A postgraduate from NED University of Engineering and Technology in Karachi, Faiza completed the World Bank-funded programme WomenXPakistan and currently leads the product development wing for software development company Genetech Solutions. Her project portfolio includes programmes with USAID, UNEquals, and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, among others.
Speaking with quiet, unassuming resolve, Faiza expresses her passion for education, seeing it as a ladder, even a magic wand that solves problems – not just the basic ones of livelihoods or for fulfilling basic survival necessities, but also social issues.
“Pursuing the path of education has changed my life, and the lives of numerous other people that I know,” says Faiza. (She will be speaking at eShe’s South Asia Union Summit Led by Women on October 3, 2021.)
Faiza finds that the South Asian social culture or belief system has prevented many women from gravitating towards careers in technology despite having the aptitude, although a change is slowly creeping in to counter this mindset. “Women are usually encouraged to become teachers, nurses, doctors, and in most cases, homemakers. These professions are an extension of the roles women stereotypically play in societies and families as caregivers,” she says.
Her organisation is trying to change this limited mindset: “Getting a career in a field like technology has significant barriers, and one of the barriers that we are trying to break is not investing in girls’ technical education.”
Faiza’s community-funded coding and business skills boot-camp CodeGirls teaches coding skills to girls and women in Karachi who have never had the opportunity to get technical education and proper mentoring. “We have so far placed nearly 150 women in the local tech ecosystem,” she says.
Continue reading: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/features/education-is-the-ticket-towards-self-reliance-and-financial-independence-for-women-in-south-asia-7510111.html

The numbers speak for themselves.
According to 2016 data from the National Center for Women and Information Technology, 25 per cent of roles in the tech sector comprise of women holding computing roles. Black women make up three per cent of that number, about five per cent are Asian women and one per cent are Latina women.

These numbers raise an issue of underrepresentation for Lena Thibeh, co-founder of BWOSS, a Waterloo-headquartered non-profit that helps BlPOC women access sales development resources and career development support.

Thibeh is among several speakers at a panel discussion Monday evening titled The Colourful Side of Tech Sales, that aims to put a voice and face to those statistics.
"How do we humanize that data so it hits home for tech companies and hits home for recruiters where they understand that this is a problem and it's unacceptable," she said.
Thibeh said tackling the issue of gender diversity starts with holding tech leaders, who often have a bias toward men, accountable and ensuring equity is front and centre.
"They do not see the value in Black, Indigenous and racialized voices, especially when it comes to women. And this is a problem because the question becomes, who are they actually serving and what does this say about a company's ethics? Especially in 2021."
The online event offers an oppourtunity to highlight the underrepresentation of women in the industry and ways to help them break barriers and take up space in revenue-generating roles.
Experience in industry 
Thibeh, who is Afro-Palestinian, said her experience navigating the industry is what helped inspire her to establish BWOSS to help others. She said she was often the only Black person on the sales floor and was denied job opportunities because of her race.
Today, she continues to move through the industry, challenging leadership through her own Black excellency, she said, "showing them what a Black woman can do and how far a Black woman can really innovate and change and just completely disrupt their own systems for the better."
Donna Litt, co-founder and COO of Waterloo-based Uvaro, which offers tech-sales training programs, is moderating the event on Monday. 
"It's been an uphill battle of carving out space for myself and often being one of the only women within certain conversations, especially women with arts backgrounds," she said about her experience in the industry.
Continue reading: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-region-event-representation-bipoc-women-tech-1.6190264

Today, we are seeing a burgeoning task among organizations. This task is around adopting, integrating, and managing enterprise data that is constantly moving through their systems; needless to say, the quantum, of which is rising in leaps and bounds.
Business CXOs can leverage this data ecosystem and gain a huge competitive advantage. However, the study suggests that most business leaders do not have their data arranged and managed properly and effectively. According to the 2018 Global Data Benchmark Report, published by Experian, organizations in the United States believe that 33% of their customer data is having some of the other inaccuracies. This is disastrous because poor data quality can negatively impact everything – right from business intelligence resulting in wrong decisions to the productivity of employees (as it creates duplicity of tasks resulting in loss of time).
What is enterprise data management?
Enterprise data management is a process of managing, monitoring, and storing enterprise-wide data and most importantly, getting the entire organization on board with the process.  To put it simply, while EDM is about managing data, it is also equally critical about managing people. Data management is nothing but ensuring that people in the organization have accurate and timely data as and when they require it. Furthermore, they should also ensure that the data is stored in a standardized, and secured place.
Why is enterprise data management important?
Enterprise data management is important because it delivers a highly standardized and streamlined system to organizations. Through this system, companies can search, manage, access, store and secure their data. Enterprise data management also ensures that companies can easily find and analyze the data for their internal analysis and thereby take well-informed decisions and define strategies around these decisions.
Enterprise data management use cases
Effective EDM helps organizations to transfer data to other business applications, processes, and users with relative ease. Having achieved this results in significant improvement in operational efficiency and efficacy.
Moreover, enterprise data management also delivers an internal benefit to organizations in the form of cutting down the time spent on new data regulation. Effective EDM also helps in managing and controlling any sort of changes or fluctuations in assets. This strengthens the trust in overall policy across the organization.
An EDM helps companies to:

1. Store, search, use and analyze data
2. Take well-informed decisions across the organization
3. Prepare for the future
4. Streamline processes
5. Improve efficiency and efficacy of functioning of users
6. Re-enforce trust
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   To sum up, enterprise data management ensures the storage of accurate and accessible data, but in a secure way.
   Continue reading: https://www.techfunnel.com/information-technology/enterprise-data-management/

It’s often said that data is the new oil, to the extent it’s become something of a cliché in the tech industry. Perhaps another, less tired comparison is that data is like work in Parkinson’s Law – it will expand not to fill the time available for its completion, but into every element of infrastructure and activity that an organisation has available.
This is increasingly true, in fact, as the Big Data revolution made all data interesting and valuable to a business, not just the information it was used to looking at. By analysing these vast data sets, new value streams can be uncovered, and both productivity and profits increased. With this in mind, it’s important to consider where new sources of data may come from and the infrastructure that underpins their collection, analysis and storage.
Data, data everywhere
Nowadays, technology moves rapidly. Even millennials and older members of Generation Z have experienced this incessant churn, with things that once seemed core to computing, such as floppy disks, becoming obsolete in their lifetime.
Continue reading: https://www.itpro.co.uk/business/business-strategy/360985/from-edge-to-cloud-and-everywhere-in-between

Mouser has released the fifth instalment of the 2021 Empowering Innovation Together (EIT) program. The latest instalment provides deeper insight into the trends encompassing intelligent transportation systems through a highlighted blog, infographic, video and more. The series also incorporates a new episode of The Tech Between Us podcast.
In the latest podcast episode, Raymond Yin, Mouser’s director of Technical Content, speaks with Dr Maxime Flament, CTO of the 5G Automotive Association, about the development of industry safety standards. They investigate the capabilities of implementing 5G networks into transportation systems and the effects of edge computing in the automotive industry. The podcast is also offered on Apple Podcasts, Alexa, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify and the company's own YouTube channel.
“Worldwide, we’re seeing rapidly increasing needs for safe, secure and intelligent transportation systems,” states Glenn Smith, president and CEO of Mouser Electronics. “With new developments enabled by technologies like 5G, ultra-wide bandgap, next-gen wireless connectivity and more, we’re in an era of smart transportation solutions that will change the industry and impact our communities, cities, travel and more.”
Continue reading: https://www.electropages.com/2021/09/examining-impact-5g-and-edge-computing-intelligent-transportation-systems

What Does Internet of Behaviors (IoB) Mean?
The Internet of Behaviors (IoB) is an area of research and development (R&D) that seeks to understand how, when and why humans use technology to make purchasing decisions. IoB combines three fields of study: behavioral science, edge analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT).
IoB platforms are designed to gather, aggregate and analyze data generated from a wide variety of sources, including household digital devices, wearable computers and human online activities. The data is then analyzed in terms of behavioral psychology to look for patterns that can be used by marketing and sales teams to influence future consumer behavior.
An important goal of the IoB is to help marketers understand and monetize the massive amount of data produced by network nodes in the Internet of Things.
The Internet of Behaviors is expected to play an important role in e-commerce, health care, customer experience management (CXM) and search engine optimization (SEO).
Potential IoB use cases include:

• Reducing insurance premiums for drivers whose vehicles consistently report desired brake and acceleration patterns.
• Analyzing a specific user's grocery purchases in order to personalize menu suggestions.
• Using location services and buying history to customize a shopper's point-of-sale (PoS) promotions in real-time.
• Sending an alert when a fitness activity tracker's data indicates the wearer's blood pressure is too high or too low.

Continue reading: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/34552/internet-of-behaviors-iob

Sensors have become the ubiquitous companions of our lives. Whether knowingly or not, we use them every day to collect, process, and interpret data and help us make sense of the world around us. The demand for connected devices keeps growing – in particular in the Internet of Things, or IoT for short. The Fraunhofer flagship project ZEWOPEL has shown successfully how all of these sensor systems can become extremely energy efficient or even completely autonomous. The potential result: Up to 20% less carbon emissions in Germany alone.
With billions of sensors littering our increasingly connected world, their power supplies have become a factor to contend with for the environment, especially for industrial use. Many of the devices that constitute the Internet of Things are already intricately tied to each other, with a mass of sensors forming individual nodes. Early IoT devices would communicate with each other and share their data with little concern for energy efficiency, making many of the urgently needed IoT applications too heavy a burden on the environment for them to be rolled out on a true industrial scale or indeed making them unsuitable choices for upgrading. Now, the nine Fraunhofer organizations behind the ZEWOPEL project, standing for “Towards Zero Power Electronics”, have shown that the digital revolution and the energy revolution do not have to exclude each other.
With years of active research and development on everything from integrated sensors and signal processing or energy harvesting and improved storage technologies to efficient wireless communication between connected IoT devices, the ZEWOPEL platform was set up to optimize the entire universe of IoT systems. Its unique approach relied not only on its use of modular technology that can be tailored to match most IoT applications, but also on the ability of future sensor nodes to become autonomous of external power supplies.
Continue reading: https://www.chemeurope.com/en/news/1172866/greening-the-internet-of-things.html

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched an airspace map of India for drone operations — allowing civilian drone operators to check the demarcated no-fly zones or where they need to undergo certain formalities before flying one. This map has been developed by MapMyIndia and IT services firm Happiest Minds and is put up on the Directorate General of Civil Aviation’s (DGCA) digital sky platform.
 
What does this map show?
The interactive map shows red, yellow and green zones across the country. Green zone is the airspace up to 400 feet that has not been designated as a red or yellow zone, and up to 200 feet above the area located between 8-12 km from the perimeter of an operational airport.
Continue reading: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-drone-airspace-map-india-7536736/

BOSTON (WHDH) - Baseballs won’t be the only things flying through the air during Sunday evening’s Red Sox game — drones will be buzzing around Fenway Park as well.
Boston police said ESPN will be using drones to film part of the game between the Red Sox and the Yankees, who are battling for the the wild card slot.
The game begins shortly after 7 p.m.
Continue reading: https://whdh.com/sports/drones-to-buzz-fenway-during-sox-game/

In the 1990s, when a Pawtucket homicide suspect was believed to be holed up in a South Attleboro home, a SWAT team responded to the scene.
But the tactical team did not rush into the home.
Instead, they sent a small robot with treaded wheels equipped with a camera capable of allowing police to see inside the residence.
The robot found no one was inside the house, dissolving the neighborhood tension.
“They usually use those robots in a tenuous life-threatening situation,” Attleboro Police Chief Kyle Heagney said.
About five years ago in Mansfield, a robot was sent into the home of a suicidal man who had threatened police with a rifle when he stopped communicating with the SWAT team.
“It spotted him unconscious in the basement and that’s when our guys went in. They got to him just in time,” Mansfield Police Chief Ron Sellon said.
The man had taken pills and was transported to a hospital for treatment, police said at the time.
None of the Attleboro area police departments have their own tactical robots.
They rely on support from state police or regional agencies such as the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council or the Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council.
“It is commonplace for the bomb squad or METRO-LEC to deploy them in barricade situations. It’s all about officer safety and public safety. It’s just another tool,” Norton Police Chief Brian Clark said.
The robots, which also can carry items such as a cellphone to a person barricaded from police to open lines of communication, can save the lives of police officers, the suspect and the public, law enforcement officials say.
They are not armed.
Continue reading: https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/police-use-of-drones-and-robots-in-attleboro-area-help-to-aid-in-safety-of/article_7a92a2b4-172d-5b0d-aa9a-4ead809c570d.html

 Drone Software Market Outlook - 2027: The drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle with sensors, GPS, and an embedded system, which is used for aerial surveillance and inspection by providing a bird-eye view. Drone software is used for various programs in the drones. Drone software includes collision avoidance, obstacle detection, and many other device algorithms. It is also used to fuse all signal transmissions through the connected sensors such as a visual sensor, ultrasound, an infrared sensor (LiDAR), and others. Some drones also include an upgrade to the firmware which is software used to fix physical bugs and controls.Increased dependence on Artificial Intelligence and scene identification using drones are providing opportunities for drone software market development. Companies covered in this Drone Software Market report 3D Robotics, Airware, Dreamhammer Products, Drone Volt, DJI, Esri, DroneDeploy, Pix4D S.A, Precisionhawk, senseFly SA, and Skyward IO. Regions covered in this report North America (the U.S. and Canada), Europe (Germany, the UK, France, and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, and Rest of LATAM) and The Middle East and Africa. Segments covered in this report are Architecture, offering, technology, application, and end-user. Download Report (299 Pages PDF with Insights, Charts, Tables, Figures) at https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/request-sample/9982 COVID-19 Scenario Analysis: • Drones are now important instruments for countering COVID-19 in countries where it is used to track public activities, maintain social distancing, spray disinfectants over villages, control of freight, and more. • Therefore, the various drone applications along with data collected need to be analyzed to serve the intended application and are thereby going to play an important role in the analytics market development. • Tech firms are stepping up their emphasis on high-demand innovations and finding new ways to support their consumers, even as the COVID-19 crisis pose problems across sectors and leads to a decline in high technology investment. • Defense has a comprehensive drone-based surveillance network in tandem with highly trained pilots and these facilities can be placed at the disposal of local authorities to track the situation of law and order up to the district level, to tackle situations related to national security during such pandemics when the nation is under lockdown.
Continue reading: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/552401382/drone-software-market-rise-in-usage-of-drones-with-cloud-based-decision-support-for-commercial-purposes

Global Market Vision published a new study on the Global Electric Motor Smart Commercial Drones market exclusive insights, Opportunities and revenue size estimation and growth factors. Electric Motor Smart Commercial Drones Market report aims to deliver an opportunity for companies to recognize the modern trends, market size, growth, share, segments, manufacturers, and technologies, future road map and 2028 forecast.  The Study is segmented by major and emerging countries having high potential and elaborates qualitative and quantitative information including market size breakdown by revenue and volume (if applicable). The study precisely caters drivers, restrains to capture changing market dynamics affected in current scenario. To reach market size forecast and growth estimation various important metrics are considered like SWOT analysis of players, all recent developments, upcoming launches, joint ventures, merger and accusations of industry relevant players.
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Inspection Drones Market Outlook - 2027: The drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle with sensors, GPS, and an embedded system, which is used for aerial surveillance and inspection by providing a bird-eye view. In the military, oil and gas business, insuring business, agriculture, and development field Drone-based surveillance is strongly preferred.Government agencies began using disaster relief inspection drones, wildfire combat, and border surveillance, whereas farmers began to use drones to inspect pipelines and spray pesticides on agriculture farms. Drone inspection is currently the favorite method in a large number of industries for visual inspections. They are considered much safer and accurate, unlike the regular visual surveys. Companies covered in this report are 3D Robotics, Acecore Technologies, AeroVironment, Airobotics Ltd., Aeryon Skyranger, Intel Corporation, Lockheed Martin, SZ DJI Technology Co., Yuneec International, Delair Aerial Intelligence, and AltiGator. Regions covered in this report are North America (the U.S. and Canada), Europe (Germany, the UK, France, and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, and Rest of LATAM) and The Middle East and Africa. Segments covered in this report are Component, application, end-user and distribution channel. Download Report (211 Pages PDF with Insights, Charts, Tables, Figures) at https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/request-sample/9985 COVID-19 Scenario Analysis: • Drones are now important instruments for countering Covid-19 in countries where it is used to track public activities, maintain social distancing, spray disinfectants over villages, control of freight, and more. • Therefore, the various drone applications along with data collected need to be analyzed to serve the intended application and are thereby going to play an important role in the analytics market development. • Tech firms are stepping up their emphasis on high-demand innovations and finding new ways to support their consumers, even as the COVID-19 crisis poses problems across sectors and leads to a decline in high technology investment. • Defense has a comprehensive UAV-based surveillance network in tandem with highly trained pilots and these facilities can be placed at the disposal of local authorities to track the situation of law and order up to the district level, to tackle situations related to national security during such pandemics when the nation is under lockdown.
Continue reading: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/552402274/how-big-is-the-inspection-drones-market-by-2030

With the holiday season approaching, businesses across the world are still trying to resolve supply chain problems that have been repeating since the pandemic began in 2020. Can the internet-connected sensors and low-powered edge computers of the Internet of Things solve the problem? 
Supply chain issues have affected businesses in all sectors, from car rental businesses hamstrung by the auto-industry's year-long semiconductor shortfall, to the humble bike shop because some components aren't being produced in volumes that they were before.
British satellite telco Inmarsat outlines multifaceted challenges that businesses face today, from population growth to spikes in consumer demand, a shortage of resources at the right time, efforts to reduce carbon output, and a new focus on safety after the pandemic. 
"Now organisations are choosing to work with likeminded businesses, to collaborate and share data, to optimise operations and to show consumers provenance and their commitment to end-to-end sustainability and ethical business," Inmarsat says in a new report about IoT. 
Continue reading: https://www.zdnet.com/article/global-supply-chains-are-struggling-the-iot-could-help/

As the IoT ecosystem continues to grow, so does the importance of securing those IoT networks. According to Gartner, spending on IoT security solutions will reach $631 million by 2021. This is a significant leap from $91 million, which was spent in 2016, and this annual global spending statistic shows that IoT solutions are headed for a massive boom within the next decade.
According to Gemalto, another worrying stat, 48% of businesses admit that they cannot detect IoT security breaches on their network. Nearly half of the companies that use IoT can’t identify when their network is compromised. As more businesses invest in IoT technology, we can only hope that this number decreases.
According to Pieter Danhieux, the co-founder and CEO of Secure Code Warrior, an average building will have air conditioning, automated doors, surveillance cameras – many running on IoT systems. In the agriculture business, tractors, measuring devices and rainwater stations also run IoT.
“In homes today, you will find IoT in Christmas lights, door locks, etc. IoT has infiltrated both enterprise and our personal lives, which is a good thing because it allows us to do many, many great things. But it could also be a very scary thing,” he commented.
State of security in IoT devices
Danhieux opined that when manufacturers build IoT devices they don’t think that these things would be exploited. He argued that manufacturers are under pressure to build these devices at the lowest possible cost and deployed them quickly.
“People don’t think about the potential threats we could face with some of these IoT devices, whether it is hardware or IoT software development kits (SDKs). The vulnerability could be in how the IoT communicates from within the network,” he added.
His point was that it's a very complex environment. “I think, and not many people, when they are building those devices are thinking about all the different problems that can go wrong, around IoT security,” he continued.
Continue reading: https://futureiot.tech/podchats-for-futureiot-state-of-iot-security/

Cryptocurrency has been discussed a lot for an extended period. Still, it’s only just become acknowledged as a means of exchange that individuals who aren’t fiercely experts can use.
Cryptocurrencies are the digital currencies which have become very popular. These can even in the future change the way people view money as. Cryptocurrencies are hassle-free and they help in faster and easier transactions. More people have been investing into them. Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency and some other popular cryptocurrencies are ethereum, ripple, dogecoin etc. But out of these bitcoin is the most used crypto.
By making economic and financial institutions more approachable, Bitcoin can help foster monetary and social growth all over the globe, especially in non-mechanical countries. That’s the actual situation, according to http://blockchainjobz.com The primary goal of this program is to make future trading much easier and more pleasant.
So the following are some of the best reasons why cryptocurrencies can be incorporated in one business. They provide a lot of scope:
Expanded Monetary Opportunities
There is already an entire industry surrounding cryptocurrencies, headed by organizations tasked with monitoring all computerized financial transactions worldwide. The velocity at which the bitcoin company is growing is unquestionable, as early adopters who have become wealthy in the current moment and achieved financial independence can attest. Bitcoin, the most well-known of these crypto payment methods, has a full integration that allows many people and networks to form and grow, whereas others rely on exchange as a payment method. The economy is gradually adapting to these requirements.
Unparalleled Opportunity for Poorly Financed Countries
Customers rarely seek pure economic linkages that might assist them in managing a personal income problem, such as credit cards, financial data, and so on. These people, who are typically poor, are routinely subjected to questionable and dangerous boosting methods. The economic cost of these activities is undeniably high, increasing precariousness among individuals who the sequence of events has impacted. A diverse set of programs and initiatives have long been leveraged in trying to cut money-related procedures to make them more vital to the general public.
Low Replacement Worth at a Minimal Price
Because bitcoin and blockchain do not require a verifiable, legitimate purpose to exist, the costs associated with their operations are negligible. Because there is no need to provide delegation wages, organizational expenses, or rental, these significant savings regularly turn into lower currency rates. As a result, a rapidly growing population trusts these stable monetary, technical arrangements and initiating payments, causing the more extensive economy to become significantly more interconnected.
Continue reading: https://www.fingerlakes1.com/2021/09/26/check-out-the-best-reasons-to-incorporate-cryptocurrency-in-one-business/

Bitcoin has gone from a niche internet curiosity to a household name that’s made the fortunes of many an investor. Over the last several years, cryptocurrencies and NFTs have stolen headlines, but for the savvy technologist, it’s the blockchain technology underpinning them that’s most interesting.
We’re not going to go into too much detail on the technical specifics of what blockchain is and how it works, but, in brief, a blockchain is a distributed ledger in which every transaction is collectively validated by every node on the network. Entries are permanent and immutable, and the infrastructure itself is completely decentralised. 
Blockchain was originally developed to support Bitcoin, and became famous through the rise of cryptocurrencies. However, experts have highlighted many potential uses for blockchain beyond cryptocurrency, including a number of applications in business verticals from property to logistics.
How realistic, though, is the idea of deploying blockchain within a business? Is there a genuine need for this technology, or is it merely a passing gimmick? And how difficult would it be to put the theory into practice? In this month’s IT Pro Panel discussion, we asked our panellists for their insights into just how much of an influence they expect blockchain to have on the future of business.
Continue reading: https://www.itpro.co.uk/technology/blockchain/360997/it-pro-panel-can-you-build-a-business-on-blockchain

The most common use cases of blockchain are in the banking, finance and insurance, retail, and transport industries. The potential of blockchain is still being explored in sectors such as healthcare through initiatives such as Covid-19 vaccine supply chain management.
Listed below are the key use case trends impacting the blockchain theme, as identified by GlobalData.
Payments
Blockchain is being used to speed up payments, improve transparency, eliminate intermediaries, and reduce costs. Cross-border payments through traditional payment methods are complex, expensive, and slow. The World Bank estimates the average transaction cost for remittances to be around 6.5%, and even payment disruptors such as PayPal and TransferWise take days to settle cross-border payments. Smart contracts can be used for consumption-based payments, dispute resolution, and facilitating chargebacks apart from enabling faster and cheaper payments.
Supply chain
Blockchain has a role to play in supporting the digitisation of supply chains and increasing transparency and efficiency. Businesses are looking to blockchain to reduce the time and costs of moving products. Integration with other technologies, particularly internet of things (IoT), will be crucial for getting the most out of blockchain in the supply chain. Freight and logistics account for more than $1.5tn in expenditure in the US alone, with more than $30bn lost due to theft in transit.
Many of the leading players in the logistics sector, including FedEx and UPS, are making investments in blockchain. Companies can trace products through supply chains with blockchain to flag potentially damaging in-transit events such as signs of tampering, extreme environmental conditions, or careless handling. Blockchain can help vendors expedite recalls by quickly determining the location of any inventory across the supply chain that needs to be kept out of circulation if a manufacturer identifies a quality issue with a product.
Data sharing
Central to the digital capabilities of every company is the ability to unlock the value of data by creating actionable insights. Much of this depends on meeting stringent security and privacy requirements over data use. The ineffective data sharing process in most industries is due to the lack of trust between parties and the lack of interoperability between information technology (IT) systems and applications. This is a problem that the security and reliability of blockchain can solve. Secure and scalable data sharing is fundamental to providing effective collaboration.
Continue reading: https://www.verdict.co.uk/blockchain-use-case-trends/

Other sectors like cybersecurity, edtech, cleantech, and gaming are maturing at significant rates, seeing a collective growth of 33% in Series A funding and 3% exits over the past five years.
Blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data are few of the fastest growing startup sub-sectors globally, attracting high early-stage funding deals over the last five years, according to a new report by market research firm Startup Genome.
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Deep tech, a term that includes advanced manufacturing and robotics, blockchain, AI, and big data, remains the fastest growing group globally. Fintech has also experienced substantial growth in last five years, the company noted in a report titled ‘The Global Startup Ecosystem 2021’.
Five sub-sectors — agtech, blockchain, advanced manufacturing and robotics, AI and big data, fintech — are growing in size at an astounding pace, with an average 107% rise in early-stage funding deals and 43% growth in exits. AI, Big Data and Analytics is the largest sub-sector, comprising nearly 27% of all global startups, the report added.
Other sectors like cybersecurity, edtech, cleantech, and gaming are maturing at significant rates, seeing a collective growth of 33% in Series A funding and 3% exits over the past five years.
India’s startup hub Bengaluru secured the 23rd spot among 40 countries assessed in the report, based on performance, funding, connectedness, market reach, knowledge and talent. Silicon Valley, London and New York City secured the top spots, the report noted.
Continue reading: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/blockchain-ai-among-fastest-growing-startup-sub-sectors-globally/article36690477.ece

There’s been a lot of negative press about the direction of female representation in tech — but is the situation really so dire? The Women in Cloud team investigated some of these trends, focusing on the positive and negative sides, so we could identify real opportunities for change. Here’s what we found.
1. Getting Women into C-Suite and Executive Roles
The Bad News: From 1995 to 2018, the percentage of female CEOs in Fortune 500 companies has risen from zero to 4.8%. Unfortunately, that number is down from 6.4% in 2017, and a McKinsey report found that men in executive roles are still more highly compensated than women. So, while there has been some growth on a longer timescale, we still have plenty to figure out.
The Good News: While significantly fewer businesses are run by women, those that are have experienced a lot of success. One study found that Fortune 500s with at least three women leaders saw a 66% return on investment (ROI). That means the numbers are on the side of representation. Continue reading: https://programminginsider.com/7-unexpected-trends-about-representation-of-women-in-the-cloud-and-ai-industry/

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), will fund community engagement projects led by the company’s employees in the U.S. and five other countries through a newly launched grant program.
The new Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Innovation Fund will distribute a total of $315,000 in grants divided evenly among 17 employees who were selected out of 100 submissions, LaDavia Drane, the director and global head of inclusion, diversity and equity at Amazon Web Services, said in an interview with the Washington Business Journal. Drane was based out of the D.C. area, where AWS operates its East Coast hub, until the pandemic when she moved to central Ohio to be near family.
“I believe in providing our employees with the opportunity to take action,” said Drane, who designed the fund. “We talk about an inclusive workplace and how that should feel. But there’s something about making the investment and saying we’re going to actually take the step, move forward and take action, and not just internally, but to take the focus off of ourselves... and be able to focus on our communities." 
Continue reading: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2021/09/25/amazon-web-services-fund.html

One small silver lining from the disruption of the past 18 months is that it’s turned the spotlight onto the spaces we occupy, from office blocks to campuses, forcing us to contemplate how they could be made safer, healthier and better for the environment. Cleaner air through sophisticated ventilation systems and crowd management to reduce unnecessary contact are two obvious responses to COVID-19 that are being floated in countries around the world, but these advances are also giving way to other potential ways to improve our learning spaces and increase the wellbeing of students and staff.
How smart building technology is already changing the game
Until recently, smart building technology has only largely been leveraged in corporate offices or private residences. It’s only in the past five-to-10 years that the true potential of smart technology has started to be realized in terms of health and wellbeing, not just convenience. For instance, some schools in the US and parts of Europe have already been using smart technology to measure their energy use and efficiency, streamline building maintenance, carry out automated head counts and control HVAC systems. These technologies are now beginning to play a pivotal role in ensuring that buildings remain healthy spaces to work and learn, diminishing the risk of catching everything from the common cold to COVID-19. For instance, smart management systems tend to have sensors on board that can monitor and control humidity, temperature and indoor air quality, whilst also checking on the level of carbon dioxide and other pollutants in the air. According to Deloitte, data collected from these sensors can even be used to determine which areas in a building might need the most cleaning. It’s the perfect marriage of convenience, efficiency and wellbeing.
Continue reading: https://edtechnology.co.uk/comments/smart-building-technology-create-healthier-learning-environments/

The Zero Trust model is founded on a simple concept, “trust no one and nothing.” Forrester notes Zero Trust “centers on the belief that trust is a vulnerability, and security must be designed with the strategy, ‘Never trust, always verify.’"
In practical terms, organizations that adopt the Zero Trust model put policies in place to verify everyone and everything, regardless of whether they are internal or external.
Though the Zero Trust approach has been around for more than a decade – first coined in 2009 by then Forrester Analyst John Kindervag – it hasn’t seen widespread adoption until very recently. 

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Zero Trust has picked up steam and modernized many aspects of IT security. For example, while traditional VPNs certainly still provide fundamental protections when remotely connecting from a home to a corporate network, Zero Trust networks have taken telecommuter security to the next level – specifically addressing expanding and modern environments, such as cloud infrastructure, mobile devices and the internet of things (IoT).
Continue reading: https://www.techradar.com/news/using-zero-trust-to-battle-email-impersonation-attacks

Cyber Security Company, SecurityHQ, have reported that issues with IoT devices have risen across the globe throughout 2021 and continue to grow. The prime challenge with IoT devices is the lack of employee awareness of the risks associated with them, a lack of education/training available to highlight said risks, and an assumption from the buyer (both in business and in personal use) that anything purchased and installed will have gone through all the necessary security processes, no questions asked.
Willful blindness surrounding device control in the workplace
Whether it’s because it’s easier to not think about the issues or to believe that it’s someone else’s responsibility, people tend to want to think that because an item looks secure and is bought from a reputable source, that they do not need to worry about the security of their IoT devices.
Continue reading: https://www.itp.net/security/the-rise-of-iot-vulnerabilities-in-smes