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Using drones to transform healthcare: 5 lessons from Africa
Health
June 8, 2021

Using drones to transform healthcare: 5 lessons from Africa

Drones are a potential avenue for enabling essential healthcare supplies to reach even the most remote places. Africa leads the world in drone delivery. Pilot projects there have revealed 5 key issues that need to be resolved in order to scale up via financially sustainable business models.

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Source: World Economic Forum
Urban Sun cleans coronavirus from public spaces
Health
May 7, 2021

Urban Sun cleans coronavirus from public spaces

UV light has been shown to reduce the COVID19 virus in the air. This inspired Daan Roosegaarde to create an “artificial sun” for disinfecting open spaces. Using 222 nm wavelength UV light, which is not harmful to human skin, his Urban Sun invention can safely reduce up to 99.9% of virus in treated areas.

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Source: World Economic Forum
Meet the healthcare interaction robots
HealthICT
May 4, 2021

Meet the healthcare interaction robots

Interactions between healthcare workers and patients waiting in the emergency department could soon be handled by robots. As well as facilitating communication via a video screen, these robots have sensors for measuring vital signs such as skin temperature, pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation.

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Source: MIT
The Technology and Innovation Report of 2021
Circular EconomyHealthICT
April 6, 2021

The Technology and Innovation Report of 2021

Frontier technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, robotics and biotechnology are key for sustainable development. Potentially worth over $3.2 trillion by 2025, these technologies could increase inequality. It’s vital that the less developing countries don’t miss out on this wave of technological change.

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Source: UNCTAD
AI and machine learning will finally take off in healthcare
HealthICT
February 22, 2021

AI and machine learning will finally take off in healthcare

The combination of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning will enable healthcare providers to improve diagnoses and to advance the science of imaging. Clinicians will use wearable data to help them make better health decisions. All this will cause an explosion of innovation in health.

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Source: Forbes
The top 10 emerging technologies of 2020
Circular EconomyEnergyHealth
February 1, 2021

The top 10 emerging technologies of 2020

The 10 technologies offer solutions to the two most important global challenges of the moment: global health and climate change. The sun’s energy is able to covert waste carbon dioxide into valuable materials to reduce the carbon footprint. And virtual organs will be created for diagnoses.

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Source: World Economic Forum