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UK Consumers Lead in Prioritising Corporate Social Responsibility
A new study from cloud-based experience leader, InMoment, uncovered five trends, including one that reveals UK consumers are outshining their global peers in making social responsibility a priority when choosing which brands to support.
The 2019 UK CX Trends study found that 42% of consumers say that brands’ support of environmental, social or political causes...
Samhita releases report on corporate action in water
Ambuja Cement Foundation and Samhita, a CSR consultancy, brought together key stakeholders in India’s development sector, primarily the water sector, on a single platform, to heighten the need for investment in this critical area at a special event.
The event witnessed the launch of Making a Case for Corporate Action in Water – a report that analysed companies...
CSR: How AI could give sight to the blind
Better medical care, nutrition, and other measures can help prevent blindness or ease the suffering of those afflicted by it. Alongside these solutions, AI has the potential to make life easier for the visually impaired by providing navigational assistance via smartphone.
Applications
Artificial Intelligence’s computer vision capabilities can identify objects and read text, converting handwriting or...
‘India Steps Challenge’ – A Nationwide Initiative to Encourage Indians to Adopt a Healthier Lifestyle
According to GOQii's latest 'India Fit Report', more than 57% population across key cities such as Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai are overweight. Further, lifestyle diseases have witnessed a steady rise - Diabetes has increased to 5.1% in 2018 from 3.6% in 2017, Cholesterol has increased to 12.1% in 2018 from 5.2% in 2017 and...
Canada: Union in support of arrested Bangladeshi garment workers
The United Steelworkers (USW), one of the largest unions in North America and Canada, has urged Bangladesh to immediately release all garment workers and union members arrested on alleged ‘trumped-up charges’ due to protest demonstrations against the inadequate minimum wage rise and drop charges against workers involved in demonstrations in December last year.
USW national...
CSR by airports in India: Stuck in the air
The civil aviation industry in India has been one of the fastest growing industries in the country in recent years. India is currently the world’s third largest domestic civil aviation market and expected to become the largest in the next 10 to 15 years.
The number of passengers carried by domestic airlines during 2017 was...
Clean Ganga: Holy river, unholy practices
The Clean Ganga or Namami Gange programme is, as the name suggests, a massive, central government-led initiative for the holiest of all holy rivers in India. One of the flagship programmes of the BJP government (even if it’s a continuation of previous efforts), this ‘integrated conservation mission’ was approved in June 2014 with a...
पुलवामा में शहीद हुए जवानों के परिवार की मदद के लिए आगे आया अंबानी परिवार
पुलवामा आतंकी हमले में शहीद हुए जवानों के बच्चों के परवरिश और उनके पढ़ाई से लेकर नौकरी के साथ-साथ परिजनों के रोजी रोटी तक की पूरी जिम्मेदारी रिलायंस फाउंडेशन ने लिया है। साथ ही फाउंडेशन ने यह भी घोषणा किया है कि इस आतंकी हमले में घायल सभी जवानों के हर संभव उपचार के...
CSR: Using AI for disaster relief
Natural disasters kill more than 50,000 people and displace tens of millions more each year. The total economic damage amounts to more than $100 billion annually.
Populations in less developed countries are hardest hit: in countries with a medium or low human development index, up to six times as many people can be affected by...
शहादत को सलाम
देश भर में गुस्सा है, उबाल है, बवाल है, कई सवाल है, लेकिन जवाब अभी तक किसी के पास नही है, बदला लिया जायेगा, पाकिस्तान को सबक सिखाया जायेगा, चुन चुन कर आतंकियों को मारा जायेगा, हर एक हिंदुस्तानी के कलेजे में लगी आग को बुझाया जायेगा, बदले की आग में समूचा हिंदुस्तान जल...
Asia-Pacific AI for Social Good Summit held by Google & UN ESCAP
Google and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in collaboration with the National Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Office of Thailand, hosted the Asia-Pacific AI for Social Good Summit in Bangkok, bringing together researchers, policy makers, NGOs, and the private sector from across the Asia-Pacific region...
SRMB Steel trains 15,000 Mason Workers at Pan India Level under its Program ‘Unnati’
SRMB Steel trains over 15,000 workers under its Mason Training program ‘Unnati’. The skill building certificate workshop is conducted for masons on good construction practices, under the guidance of a technical institute.
Started in the year 2013, Unnati conducts the program where industry experts provide information about the newest trends and practices. With the aim of enhancing...