These are the top 10 innovations in mental health
网页2021年9月14日 · Data from social media to spot trends and prevent self-harm. Language patterns and images in posts can reveal and predict mental health conditions. Image: Photo by camilo jimenez on Unsplash. Globally, more than four billion people use social media, generating huge stores of data from their devices.
6 technologies to help the world adapt to climate change
网页2024年2月8日 · Six technologies are critical for climate adaptation, according to the World Economic Forum’s new report, Innovation and Adaptation in the Climate Crisis. These are artificial intelligence, drones, Earth observation, advanced computing, the Internet of Things and virtual and augmented reality. For example, early warning systems powered by ...
4 ways AI is improving mental health therapy | World Economic …
网页2021年12月22日 · 1. Keeping therapy standards high with quality control. With an increased demand for services and workloads stretched, some mental health clinics are investigating automated ways to monitor quality control among therapists. The mental health clinic Ieso is using AI to analyze the language used in its therapy sessions through natural-language ...
How will new technologies benefit ageing and longevity? | World ...
网页2021年3月30日 · The rise in new technologies will benefit healthy ageing and longevity by enabling people to live healthier, more fulfilling lives at all ages. For example, technological innovations have been deployed to keep people physically active, enable independent living such as by detecting falls, smart home technology, early detection of diseases and ...
Here's how behavioural science can guide smart cybersecurity
网页2022年11月2日 · A combination of cyber training, awareness and tech solutions that nudge people into the right behaviours is an essential component of holistic cybersecurity. Every technologist’s ambition should be to make risk mitigation an unconscious ‘habit’ that’s embedded within a product. The user experience (UX) must always default to the secure ...
5 brain technologies that will shape our future
网页2015年8月19日 · Here are five emerging technologies that offer a glimpse into the future promise of brain science. Mind mapping. Scientists know that our neural circuits are intricately linked to normal behaviour – as well as to how that behaviour goes awry in cases of neurological diseases. An unprecedented global effort has begun to map the brain’s ...
How businesses can create ethical culture in the age of tech
网页2020年1月7日 · 1. Having proper systems to identify, address, and remedy ethical use concerns contributes to greater clarity among employees. 2. Being able to identify ethical concerns contributes to creating a climate of trust. This makes a case for investing resources in this activity. 3.
8 inspiring innovations that are helping to fight plastic pollution
网页2021年12月13日 · Innovations that are fighting plastic pollution. Learn more about the eight innovators that are making an impact on the ground to fight plastic pollution: Siklus is reinventing the future of retail in Indonesia by delivering refills of everyday needs to people's doors - without plastic waste. They offer an alternative by replacing low value ...
We know the risks of AI — here's how we can mitigate them
网页2024年9月10日 · Counterintuitive to the premise of openness around code prevalent in tech, Behavioral use licensing provides a legal, patenting avenue that gives developers and other stakeholders (e.g. those creating the data) power to restrict the use of their technologies with an ethical intent. This socio-technical approach, however, requires legal skills.
We’re all shopping more online as consumer behaviour shifts
网页2021年7月7日 · The survey found a 15-30% overall growth in consumers who made purchases online across a broad range of product categories. Many of the categories see a double-digit percentage growth in online shopping intent, led by over-the-counter medicines, groceries, household supplies and personal care products. And McKinsey noted that …