Day: 20 April 2019

BNP Paribas joins forces with the Grameen Creative Lab to foster the creation of social businesses and positive-impact products within the bank

Stuart Mitchell

For several years the BNP Paribas Group has worked with the organizations in the Yunus ecosystem to support the latter’s actions in the field of microfinance. BNP Paribas was the first foreign bank to finance CreditAccess Grameen Limited (formerly Grameen Koota) in India and which enabled the microfinance institution to secure support from other foreign banks. In New York, BNP Paribas also finances Grameen America Inc, which is the only microfinance institution in the US providing individual loans to small groups of women. This commitment in the US, through the Group’s subsidiary Bank…

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Automation threatens 27% of PR jobs – ONS study

Stuart Mitchell

The Office on National Statistics has published a report which estimates over a quarter (27%) of public relations jobs are at risk from automation. The report echoes research by CIPR’s #AIinPR panel which found that 12% of a PR practitioner’s skillset could be complemented or replaced by AI today, with a prediction that this could climb to 38% within five years. Today’s ONS report – The Probability of Automation in England: 2011 to 2017 – analysed the jobs of 20 million people in England and concluded that around 7.4% or 1.5 million jobs are at…

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PRCA responds to ​EU Copyright Directive vote

Stuart Mitchell

Responding to the European Parliament vote on the EU Copyright Directive on 26 March – which includes the “link tax” and “upload filter” Articles – the PRCA has criticised the move and called for serious efforts to mitigate the unintended consequences of the Directive. Francis Ingham MPRCA, Director General, PRCA, said: “With the copyright reforms rubber-stamped, every single institution involved must now shift their focus to mitigating the very worst unintended consequences. “As the PR and communications industry has said time and again, link taxes and upload filters threaten the…

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Support from Alibaba Foundation empowers UN Women flagship programmes

Stuart Mitchell

Two major initiatives of UN Women—“Making Every Woman and Girl Count” and “Buy from Women” are receiving significant support from Alibaba Foundation as part of the 5-year, USD 5 million commitment the Foundation made to UN Women. Launched in September 2016, UN Women’s Making Every Woman and Girl Count programme seeks to bring about a radical shift in how gender statistics are used, created and promoted at the global, regional and country level. Working across three broad areas, the programme promotes a supportive policy environment to prioritize gender data; supports efforts to improve…

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Calgary Police Service Gives Organ Donors A Second Chance During National Organ Donation Month

Stuart Mitchell

Calgary Police Service Deputy Chief Ryan Ayliffe announced today that the department has joined forces with police in California to raise awareness and increase the number of organ donors in Canada and the U.S. The Second Chances awareness initiative launched this weekend, with a blitz in the cities of Calgary, Fullerton and Placentia, where officers who encountered organ donors with minor traffic violations were giving offenders a second chance (a warning as opposed to a fine) for giving someone a second chance at life by registering to be an organ…

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