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The Power of Local Knowledge: Why Product Development Should Start with Listening to Your Community

Stern + Associates

How can organizations confidently take advantage of the benefits associated with modern technology while avoiding negative impacts on surrounding communities? Existing data science techniques cannot accurately understand key cultural nuances in language amongst predominantly communities of color.

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ICON 2021 Recap: Samantha Radocchia on the Decentralized Operating System of the Future

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There’s been an evolution of our operating system, says entrepreneur, cultural technologist and author Samantha Radocchia. The operating system of the past was localized, the operating system of the present is centralized and the operating system of the future is decentralized.”. Siloed (company A, B, C).

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The Challenges for Health Care Communicators as a New Normal Emerges From the COVID-19 Crisis

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For communicators, the challenge is to help people feel comfortable about returning to their doctors and hospital services. Although the coronavirus has affected different parts of the country in different ways, hospital systems across the nation are launching communications campaigns to bring patients back. Dennis Wilson, Jr.,

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Communicating about COVID-19 Vaccines Requires Understanding Fears, Building Trust

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29, 2021, article from Kaiser Health News, the hesitancy of some African Americans to receive coronavirus vaccines — and in some cases, their mistrust of the medical system in general — are issues that must be addressed. In West Virginia, people have strong community connections and a collective sense of identity, Martin noted.

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World Economic Forum Recap: 7 Experts Showcase a Brighter Future

Stern + Associates

When we think about robotics, how do we give people in their own communities the choice to figure out what the values are of their robotic systems, what it should do, what it should not do? What decisions should we be making for the betterment of our local communities, but globally overall? Guess what?

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Muddling through the COVID-19 crisis: celebrating human spirit and ingenuity

Stephen Waddington

Tyneside Council has seconded eight staff to help with demand at our local Bay Foodbank in North Shields , Newcastle. Please support seek out and support your local organisation. Work has gone virtual and in our personal lives people have sought to connect by building virtual communities. Demand for food banks is on the rise.

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Thoughts on Balancing Your Professional Work and Your Activism

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Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, where I now live, and contributed my professional skills to local chapters of Indivisible and Black Lives Matter. In this new model, organizations become part of a larger social system. Full disclosure: I’m an activist for social and racial justice. I have marched the streets of Washington, D.C.,

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