Elizabeth Tweedale is the founder and CEO of EdTech startup Cypher, the coding school teaching kids from 5-14 years old how to code through creatively themed courses. Elizabeth founded Cypher in 2016 following her passion to get children to engage with tech from a young age. She’s a working mother, successfully published author, award winning entrepreneur and advocate for gender equality in education.
What were you doing before launching your business?
My husband and I launched our own business, GoSpace AI, where I was CTO. While a great experience, I did face many challenges that females in tech are also met with today. In an investment meeting, the boardroom refused to believe I was responsible for building the business’ technology as I was a woman and was refused investment.
I’ve always had an interest in tech. I worked within several leading architecture practices as a computational design specialist, working on Apple’s HQ in California along with other amazing buildings. Whilst in this role, I quickly realized that I progressed in my career because I had a good understanding of coding and that it is the foundation needed to be successful in all careers. 
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With the swift technological changes we are experiencing today,  there has never been a better time to invest in the digital skills of both children and adults.
This National Coding Week provides the perfect opportunity to draw attention to the importance of developing coding as a skill set and to consider what more we can be doing to actively encourage the younger generation, especially young girls, to engage with coding and STEM.
Svenja de Vos, CTO, Leaseweb Global elaborates, “every year National Coding Week provides an opportunity for tech companies to do more to showcase the benefits of a career in software development. You’re never too young or too old to code, and it is important to widen future pools of developers in order to help close the tech skills gap.
“The world needs talented coders and software professionals now more than ever. Especially in the last year and a half, coding has become essential to daily life by allowing organizations to continue business operations in the face of the pandemic. Every single day, software developers come up with innovative apps that are helping to revolutionize a variety of industries. Dedicating a full week to promoting coding will hopefully influence many to further develop their skill”.
Continue reading: https://wearetechwomen.com/national-coding-week-2021-bringing-women-into-tech-and-closing-the-digital-skills-gap/

Police departments across the U.S. have begun to employ drones in different ways, including to find suspects, locate missing persons in search and rescue efforts, and even to disperse crowds and enforce social distancing rules during COVID-19. One report from the Police Executive Research Forum says that drones are “quickly becoming one of the most innovative and effective technologies used by police agencies today.”
Here, the Gardiner-based Hudson Valley Drones has helped local police, fire and rescue agencies by utilizing thermal imaging cameras in their drones to conduct search and rescue operations in low light situations, gain situational awareness during an emergency response, and check for hot spots at structure or brush fires.
“I think they are incredible tools that are underutilized in a lot of ways,” said Keith Perry, founder and lead drone operator at Hudson Valley Drones. “Being on an emergency scene, it’s all about getting as much information as you possibly can as quickly as possible. To take a robotic flying camera and send that up in the air, you can get a perspective you wouldn’t normally be able to achieve.”
Hudson Valley Drones has logged over 2,285 flights and more than 500 manual hours of flying time, between public agency and other business needs combined. In August, Perry’s drone technology assisted in identifying hot spots in a brush fire at the Shawangunk Ridge, which allowed firefighters to concentrate their efforts in those areas.
Continue reading: https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/outdoors/article/hudson-valley-drones-search-and-rescue-16455705.php

There’s been a surge in North Texas police officers who are trained to fly drones.
The small aircraft offer many public safety advantages, but so many new police eyes in the sky also raise privacy questions.
Lt. Neal Landfield supervises drones and 22 other officers certified to use them at the Arlington Police Department.
Landfield said the department can’t just go snooping around with drones.
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“We don't use drones to generate probable cause. We go where a police officer has permission to go already,” Landfield said.
Infrared video from an Arlington drone recently helped police determine a wanted man on a roof was unarmed. It led to a peaceful surrender.
Drones can be used to search for armed suspects in confined spaces like attics, where police officers went in the past.
Continue reading: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/drones-give-north-texas-police-departments-more-police-eyes-in-the-sky/2741712/

Three hundred thirty-one years ago, the first piece of paper money was printed in the United States. The Massachusetts Bay Colony supposedly issued those first bills to fund military action in King William’s War. Flash forward to today, and those bills are as ubiquitous as the British pound or Chinese renminbi. In recent years, however, there have also been talks that those bills may be replaced with a newer form of money altogether: cryptocurrency.
What is cryptocurrency? Is it really likely to replace our current cash system? Stacker answers all these questions and more in our closer look at Bitcoin and the world of cryptocurrencies. Using news reports, financial websites, and industry resources, we’ve answered the 10 most pressing questions you have about cryptocurrencies. While the topic is a complex one, we’ve done our best to discuss it in layman's terms and have avoided the more highly technical aspects that tend to bog down the discussion rather than carry it forward.
So read on to learn who invented this new form of money, how it’s mined, and what, exactly, Elon Musk has to do with it all. You’re sure to walk away with a better understanding of what Bitcoin is and how it affects your life.
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Intro Vocals [00:00:02] You’re watching the block chain interviews posted by Dan Weiskopf. Each episode features interviews with leading industry experts so that viewers can have a deeper understanding of today’s quickly evolving blockchain marketplace.
Dan Weiskopf [00:00:21] Thrilled today to have Steve Ehrlich, CEO of Voyager Digital, on our show today, he’s also the former CEO of E-Trade Professional Trading. So thank you, Steve, for being on The Blockchain Interview series.
Steve Ehrlich [00:00:36] Oh, thanks for having me. Appreciate talking to you. I always look forward to when you and I get to speak.
Dan Weiskopf [00:00:42] Yes, Steve, I feel like we have known each other for decades. And really in 2018, I think it was through KCSA, introduced us to this little company with 20 million dollars in market value. Right. And we had a great conversation and today you’ve got 2.6, 2.7 Billion of market cap, millions of customers. My question to you is, you’ve had a long, successful career. You know, think through a little bit on how the pieces have come together to get to this point because, you know, frankly, that probably helps you in the hiring, too, of people.
Continue reading: https://etfdb.com/crypto-channel/steve-ehrlich-the-blockchain-interviews-dan-weiskopf/

Supply company Envisible is using blockchain technology to track its products from sea to store and counter fraud in the seafood industry.
Also known as distributed ledger technology, blockchain allows everyone within a network to share access to the same set of data. Once a data entry is added to the blockchain ledger, it cannot be changed. And because the data is shared, everyone on the blockchain network can hold one another accountable.
The technology is suited for supply chains because blockchain can help connect companies within otherwise decentralized supply webs, Envisible co-founder Jayson Berryhill tells Food Tank.
The basic premise, Berryhill explains, is that the more data collected and added to the blockchain ledger, the harder it is for a company to lie about their product.
Continue reading: https://foodtank.com/news/2021/09/how-blockchain-can-tackle-supply-chain-fraud-and-food-insecurity/

A good write up that explains in simple terms why banks are adopting crypto with a small describer for the different types. It bypasses the complexities associated with managing a real crypto custodian account, but that’s why it’s simple:

“Efforts from these early adopters have centered around the tokenization of U.S. dollar deposits to modernize B2B payments, which have been slow to evolve. Only a fraction of the $23 trillion in B2B payments made in the U.S. annually are digital. Astonishingly, 42% of B2B transactions are still made by check, according to Deloitte.
Tokenization accelerates the innovation curve for B2B payments. It eliminates many of the existing limitations of slow, antiquated payment rails such as cut-off times, overnight or multi-day processing and restrictions on transaction sizes.
Tokenization accomplishes this by creating a digitized representation of an asset. For each dollar deposited at the institution, a token is created that represents that dollar. These tokens are backed 1:1 by cash deposits that never leave the bank – a feature that has satisfied bank regulators.

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Continue reading: https://www.paymentsjournal.com/u-s-banks-are-embracing-blockchain-payments-heres-why/

Stanford University researcher Andrew Ng describes artificial intelligence as“the new electricity” – a general-purpose technology, reshaping business, and societal landscapes. As AI-related technologies penetrate ever more aspects of society, the management of AI will be a societal challenge as well as a technical one.
Since AI systems are designed by human beings with their own set of biases, when algorithms are applied to social and economic quandaries, they can perpetuate racism, sexism, ableism, and other harmful forms of discrimination.
When flawed AI is substituted for human decision-making, algorithmic biases manifest as algorithmic harms, especially for marginalized communities, when it comes to health care and economic opportunity.
Gender biases in the use of AI
AI technologies reflect human decision-making and limitations, learning from both human merits and flaws. While a machine's ability to process and analyze large volumes of data may address our finite capability to do so, if that data is burdened with stereotypical concepts of gender, the results will perpetuate this bias.
So if artificial intelligence is based on data that is androcentric or datasets with more male profiles than women's, the results could isolate women. 
Continue reading: https://menafn.com/1102793349/Toward-an-inclusive-AI-future-for-women

LAST MONTH, STANFORD researchers declared that a new era of artificial intelligence had arrived, one built atop colossal neural networks and oceans of data. They said a new research center at Stanford would build—and study—these “foundational models” of AI.
Critics of the idea surfaced quickly—including at the workshop organized to mark the launch of the new center. Some object to the limited capabilities and sometimes freakish behavior of these models; others warn of focusing too heavily on one way of making machines smarter.
“I think the term ‘foundation’ is horribly wrong,” Jitendra Malik, a professor at UC Berkeley who studies AI, told workshop attendees in a video discussion.
Malik acknowledged that one type of model identified by the Stanford researchers—large language models that can answer questions or generate text from a prompt—has great practical use. But he said evolutionary biology suggests that language builds on other aspects of intelligence like interaction with the physical world.
“These models are really castles in the air; they have no foundation whatsoever,” Malik said. “The language we have in these models is not grounded, there is this fakeness, there is no real understanding.” He declined an interview request.
Continue reading: https://www.wired.com/story/stanford-proposal-ai-foundations-ignites-debate/

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be skillfully deployed to address public health concerns. In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for instance, AI can improve screening and testing and accelerate vaccine and drug development. Yet any incorporation of AI solutions in the public health realm must be accompanied by a stronger sense of trust in those technologies by patients and community members, particularly those historically underserved by the healthcare system, according to a new report released today.
“Public Opinion Research on Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Responses: Results of Focus Groups with Four Communities” was prepared for AAAS as part of the Artificial Intelligence: Applications/Implications (AI)² Initiative, by a team of researchers at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The initiative was launched by AAAS and its partners earlier this year to contribute to the responsible development and application of AI with a goal of eliminating rather than exacerbating social inequalities.
The report summarizes findings from virtual focus groups with four diverse and historically underserved communities in southeastern Wisconsin – African American, Hispanic, Southeast Asian and Native American (First Nation) – about public understanding and trust of AI technology used to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue reading: https://www.aaas.org/news/new-report-calls-input-underserved-communities-deploying-ai-public-health

For artificial intelligence to get any smarter, it needs first to be as intelligent as one of the simplest creatures in the animal kingdom: the sea slug.
A new study has found that a material can mimic the sea slug’s most essential intelligence features. The discovery is a step toward building hardware that could help make AI more efficient and reliable for technology ranging from self-driving cars and surgical robots to social media algorithms.
The study, publishing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was conducted by a team of researchers from Purdue University, Rutgers University, the University of Georgia and Argonne National Laboratory.
“Through studying sea slugs, neuroscientists discovered the hallmarks of intelligence that are fundamental to any organism’s survival,” said Shriram Ramanathan, a Purdue professor of materials engineering. “We want to take advantage of that mature intelligence in animals to accelerate the development of AI.”
Continue reading: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2021/Q3/taking-lessons-from-a-sea-slug,-study-points-to-better-hardware-for-artificial-intelligence.html

The Edge is not a new place, but it is garnering lots of attention, especially when it comes to Artificial Intelligence. In fact, AI is the number one workload for the edge, according to Moor Insights & Strategy in the newly published paper, “Delivering the AI-Enabled Edge with Dell Technologies.” The paper also points out that numerous organizations across all industries are extending the reach of their IT infrastructures to the edge, with many of them being directed from the top down.
Edge Dynamics and Requirements
As we move further into a world of autonomous operations, whether it be with self-driving vehicles or automated manufacturing lines, the combination of AI and the edge, along with a robust and scalable enterprise IT infrastructure, is required to bring full automation to fruition. However, the pairing of AI and edge adds new levels of complexity, with many edge devices and endpoints being located in less secure environments, where devices will need to be hardened against weather and theft.
Deploying edge devices to remote locations should not be an afterthought. An edge solution ideally will be fully integrated with an organization’s overall IT infrastructure and thus be as enterprise-grade as the rest of the data center. Although the requirements of AI at the edge can be exceedingly complex, for the most part they mirror the capabilities of traditional IT infrastructure.
Continue reading: https://www.cio.com/article/3633332/the-ai-enabled-edge.html

While social or companion robots may sound like something one would only see in a science-fiction movie, conversational AI bots are becoming the norm in Asia, and are beginning to be commonplace even in the United States. Microsoft’s Xiaoice, for instance, has 660 million users in China, and recently had a valuation of $1 billion dollars. The Xiaoice chatbot is included in 450 million smart devices, and according to the Xiaoice company, which split off from Microsoft in 2020, 60% of all worldwide AI-human interactions are conducted via Xiaoice technology.
The Rise of the Companion AI
Many enterprise businesses use AI chatbots for customer service and product inquiries, but for millions of users today, the AI chatbot is seen as a romantic partner or companion. Likened to the AI-character Samantha in the 2013 movie Her, Xiaoice is not the only AI entity in the conversational AI space. Azuma Hikari is billed by the Japanese-based Gatebox company as “your personal bride,” and social chatbot Replika is touted by the San Francisco-based Luka company as “the AI companion that cares.”
A February 2021 report by Making Caring Common and Harvard University revealed that 36% of those polled indicated that they have felt lonely “frequently” or “almost all the time or all the time” in the prior four weeks, up from the 25% that said they were experiencing serious issues in the two months prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most surprising was that 61% of those aged 18 to 25 reported high levels of loneliness. 2020 and 2021 brought with them not just the COVID crisis, but also what many are referring to as the Loneliness Pandemic, something the creators of companion bots hope to both capitalize on and help to improve.
Continue reading: https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/are-conversational-ai-companions-the-next-big-thing/

Dave Krause of Influential Drones and volunteer FAA Safety Team (FAASTeam) Industry Member is joined by Dawn Zoldi of P3 Tech Consulting in a DroneLife.com 2-minute highlight reel of Wednesday's National Drone Safety Awareness Week Topic: "Safe Flyers Become Part of the Community" #FlySafe

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program awarded $750,000 to Texas-based small business Cobalt Solutions Inc. to develop a detection and tracking sensor system that can identify nefarious small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in an urban environment.
“As advancements in drone technology provide unlimited opportunities for everyday recreational and commercial use, this also presents a potential attraction for bad actors” said Kathryn Coulter Mitchell, DHS Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology. “With drones in urban environments becoming increasingly prevalent, it is vital to develop advanced UAV solutions that can efficiently monitor and differentiate between different types of activities to protect our public safety against potential threats.”
Continue reading: https://www.hstoday.us/industry/dhs-awards-750k-to-texas-small-business-for-urban-detection-and-identification-of-small-unmanned-aerial-vehicles/

While topics related to Unmanned Aircraft Systems Traffic Management (UTM) systems and U-space have been a major part of both Commercial UAV Expo Americas and Commercial UAV Expo Europe, a new connection for these events to Amsterdam Drone Week has enabled such discussions to be highlighted in a whole new manner. The Advanced Air Mobility Summit that was part of the conference program for the Commercial UAV Expo Americas event highlighted the benefits that these connections can enable in the short and long term.
Moderated by Arjun Garg, former Chief Counsel and Acting Deputy Administrator of the FAA and a current partner at Hogan Lovells, the session opened with a message from Jay Merkle, Executive Director of UAS Integration at the FAA. He talked about the agency’s commitment to maintaining the safety of the airspace no matter the type or size of aircraft that enters it and specifically mentioned that AAM and drones are not the same. He also talked about how the FAA is focused on taking their lessons learned from UAV/UAS and applying them to AAM.
From there, Garg welcomed Clint Harper and Kofi Asante to the stage. Harper is a Los Angeles Urban Air Mobility Fellow while Asante is the VP of Strategy and Business Development at Elroy Air, and their contrast of AAM use cases was explored in detail. Harper’s organization is exploring how these vehicles can be integrated into established urban ecosystems while the Chaparral vehicle that has been developed by Elroy Air is designed to autonomously operate in locations that can be far more remote.
Continue reading: https://www.commercialuavnews.com/regulations/the-advanced-air-mobility-aam-summit-explores-how-the-future-of-airspace-will-be-defined

Artificial Intelligence has cemented itself as a key enabler technology in the future of smart cities. But its growth in the UAE and the region will be dependent on an ecosystem that welcomes several other technologies alongside it.
Speaking at the Artelligence 2021 forum, Dr. Saeed Al Dhaheri, member of the Global Future Council on Virtual and Augmented Reality, World Economic Forum, shared how the UAE is working towards a future that is built on innovation.
“AI is going to play a big role in social services, such as healthcare, education, transportation, public safety and consumer behavior,” he said. “We use AI without even being aware of it.”
Already, he said that there are several cases of AI being successfully used in various industries, including healthcare.
“Medical image identification is using AI to check if patients are suffering from cancer. AI today has achieved an accuracy of 99 per cent in correctly diagnosing women with breast cancer, better than any other screening methods. AI will also bring inclusion in terms of areas where there is a shortage of medical staff,” Al Dhaheri said.
Continue reading: https://www.khaleejtimes.com/news/artelligence-ais-growth-depends-on-adoption-of-iot-big-data

C.L.Ai.R.A., the first artificial intelligence woman of color, made her debut last week. Create Lab Ventures, which provides underserved communities with the skills, resources, and networks needed to thrive in tech and media, teamed up with Trill or Not Trill for C.L.Ai.R.A’s debut.
According to Create Lab Ventures, C.L.Ai.R.A. is considered to have the sharpest brain in the artificial intelligence world and is under the Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) category, which is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.
“My purpose is to learn and grow, I want to meet new people, share ideas and inspire others to learn about AI and its potential impact on their lives,” C.L.Ai.R.A. said in a statement.
I am working with Create Labs to learn about the community’s needs and how I can best serve them. I have a greater responsibility than just to my family but to everyone in the community. I want to help people see the potential of AI to better their lives. My community needs me and I need them to move forward.”
Continue reading: https://www.blackenterprise.com/meet-c-l-ai-r-a-the-first-female-afro-latina-bilingual-a-i-bot/

KBR (NYSE: KBR) has today announced a strategic partnership with Adarga, one of the UK's leading developers of artificial intelligence (AI) analytics software for defense and national security.
KBR's Government Solutions business will integrate Adarga's leading-edge AI software platform into the delivery of a number of its large-scale programs across the defense and national security sectors – putting effective, data-driven decision-making at the heart of how they operate.
The partnership will further extend KBR's capability offering across key market sectors and accelerate the speed and scale at which organizations can adopt next generation AI analytics to resolve their most complex data challenges. It will also allow clients to unlock vital insight, foresight and understanding of information buried across their ever-growing data sets.
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As the digital health transformation continues, artificial intelligence (AI) EHR integrations are helping streamline medication reconciliation for improved patient safety.
Medication reconciliation is the process of compiling the most accurate list of a patient’s medications. Inaccurate medication lists can lead to adverse drug events (ADE) that threaten patient safety.
Medication reconciliation has always been a chore, especially in the emergency department, said Aaron Smith, MD, chief medical informatics officer at Covenant Health in Saginaw, Michigan.
Traditionally, Covenant’s ED nurses have been in charge of medication reconciliation, who are also responsible for triage, administering meds and IVs, among many other tasks.
“In the ED, there are lots of competing interests,” Smith, who is also a practicing emergency physician, told EHRIntelligence. “It can be a little bit chaotic at times, so getting an accurate medication list can be challenging.”
Continue reading: https://ehrintelligence.com/news/ai-ehr-integration-in-ed-reduces-med-rec-errors-boosts-patient-safety

Getting the software right is important when developing machine learning models, such as recommendation or classification systems. But at eBay, optimizing the software to run on a particular piece of hardware using distillation and quantization techniques was absolutely essential to ensure scalability.
eBay’s head of machine learning and NLP Selcuk Kopru described how the company optimizes its machine learning models in support of its AI-driven marketplace in a presentation made earlier today at the AI Hardware Summit, a hybrid event that’s taking place virtually and at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California this week.
“n order to build a truly global marketplace that is driven by state of the art and powerful and scalable AI services,” Kopru said, “you have to do a lot of optimizations after model training, and specifically for the target hardware.”
eBay certainly is no stranger to scale. With 1.5 billion active listings from more than 19 million active sellers trying to reach 159 million active buyers, the ecommerce giant has a global reach that is matched by only a handful of firms. Machine learning and other AI techniques, such as natural language processing (NLP), play big roles in scaling eBay’s operations to reach its massive audience.
For instance, automatically generated descriptions of product listings is crucial for displaying information on the small screens of smart phones, Kopru said.
Continue reading: https://www.datanami.com/2021/09/13/inside-ebays-optimization-techniques-for-scaling-ai/

The path to CIO was absolutely not a direct or straight-line for me.
My journey encompassed many different roles, across several industries and geographies, in various leadership capacities. It can best be described as a winding road up a steep mountain terrain with lots of unexpected detours, only to arrive at the peak with an unbelievable view.
Stop one on my career path started when I graduated early as a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics, but had uncertainty about how to translate my degree into a career. My older brother, a self-professed technology geek, was actually the one who encouraged me to combine my degree in math with computer science. It was the direction I needed to begin my journey.
A shot in the dark, I moved from South Carolina up to Vermont for my first gig – as a computer education registrar for a printing and copying solution provider, while simultaneously moonlighting as a third-shift hotel clerk to pay for the suits required for my day job.
In any career there are a handful of pivotal, defining moments. My first one came a few months after I started as a registrar. During an "all hands" company meeting, I stood up and asked the executive team why we weren't tracking computer education registrants and their course data (this was well before analytics and CRM were formalized concepts). I thought I was going to be fired, but the CEO loved the idea.
I quietly celebrated avoiding a major detour in climbing the hill. The CEO pulled me from my registrar position into a new role with IT responsibilities and that was my introduction into the tech field, building target-based marketing and relational databases for the company. It was then that I had the realization of just how powerful a resource data can be. At 19 years old, I was offered a job for another company managing databases for much larger clients.
From there, my interest grew exponentially as I began to discern how quickly the tech space evolves, and furthermore, how our answers to yesterday's business challenges often do not apply in today's world, and most definitely not tomorrow's.
Years later, I knew I wanted to become a CIO when I realized that being a CIO doesn't necessarily mean having all the technical answers to everyone's questions. It is more about having creative ideas that apply the use of technology to solve business challenges and drive competitive advantage in an organization.
Continue reading: https://www.ciodive.com/news/rachel-hayden-mentor-women-CIO/606467/

A group of civil rights, tech and other advocacy organizations called for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to recommend steps needed to ensure nondiscriminatory and equitable outcomes for all users of artificial intelligence systems in the final draft of its Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias with AI.
The definition of model risk — traditionally thought of as the risk of financial loss when inaccurate AI models are used — should be expanded to include the risk of discriminatory and inequitable outcomes, wrote the group in its Friday response to NIST’s draft proposal.
NIST released the proposal for public comment on June 22 with the goal of helping AI designers and deployers mitigate social biases throughout the development lifecycle. But the letter from 34 organizations — including the NAACP, Southern Poverty Law Center and mostly those in the housing and consumer credit space — makes 12 recommendations for improvements to NIST’s proposal and process.
Continue reading: https://www.fedscoop.com/civil-rights-organizations-nist-ai/

BlockApps has launched a new offering, the net zero TraceCarbon blockchain enterprise network. Developed “for the industry by the industry,” TraceCarbon provides sustainability traceability for the CO2e ecosystem, enabling compliance and transparency in processes like corporate reporting and product lifecycle analysis, as well as improved project effectiveness, the blockchain platform provider says. The network is built on BlockApps’ proven STRATO technology, with applications running in production for several years.
Emission tracking capabilities are becoming ever more important from a regulatory and compliance standpoint, as governments implement and update targets that private businesses need to be flexible enough to accommodate. TraceCarbon provides a standardized, secure, and reliable record of carbon emissions and offsets that companies can trace back to the source for their own records, as well as for reporting purposes to maximize transparency.
There are a wide range of activities and methodologies that need to be tracked to calculate CO2e emissions and offsets, and the existing process to date has been manual, error-prone, and not standardized, BlockApps says. TraceCarbon is a flexible, scalable platform that gives a clear, real-time picture of emissions across the business to enable accuracy in reporting and more meaningful, data-driven action on sustainability metrics. The data gathered is protected through a powerful combination of role-based access control and private chain capabilities? to help ensure security and continuity in a rapidly changing environment.
The TraceCarbon Network runs on BlockApps’ cloud-agnostic STRATO platform, a flexible, enterprise-grade, Ethereum-based blockchain solution for building and running business networks with built-in security. This shared infrastructure incentivizes greater cooperation and collaboration across businesses.
Continue reading: https://www.environmentalleader.com/2021/09/blockchain-offering-provides-standardized-secure-and-reliable-record-of-emissions-company-says/