Tag: technology
India pushes for greater uptake of electric mobility
In the gold rush for global domination of the electric mobility market, India has thrown its hat into the ring. The Modi-led government announced last...
UBS and Pratham roll out financial literacy app Meri Dukaan
In line with its commitment to making a positive impact in the community, UBS launched a gamified financial literacy app – Meri Dukaan –...
CSR: Closing the mobile gender gap
While mobile phone ownership and mobile internet use have increased significantly among women, there is still a persistent gender gap.
Women’s lower levels of mobile...
Using AI-powered drones to catch poachers
The United Nations estimates that illegal wildlife trade worldwide could be worth $8 billion to $10 billion annually. The value of the ivory trade...
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...
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...
CSR: 10 ways to apply AI to social good
Artificial intelligence, while not a silver bullet, could contribute to the multi-pronged efforts to tackle some of the world’s most challenging social problems. Social...
Trend: Machine Learning For CSR Research
Content analysis has emerged as a useful tool for conducting CSR research. While having been useful for CSR research, the popular content analysis approaches...
CSR: Two Indian tech companies are models of inclusion
For India to become an inclusive society, it is important that the nation’s corporate sector sensitises itself to the country’s diversity, its gender differences,...
Leveraging Technology For CSR
This is the Social Development space, dude! Don’t you get it, we are driven by passion and sweat and the human touch. The cold...
CSR project trained 85,000 women and youth to build careers in tech
Unemployment remains high, particularly among educated rural youth, approximately 100 million of whom are jobless or underemployed, meaning they are overqualified for the positions...
Candor TechSpace hosts conference with specially-abled achievers
Candor TechSpace, the leading provider of IT/ITES office spaces, hosted a special event to celebrate the International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Roseate...