Month: April 2019

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…

Read More

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…

Read More

Reputation Institute’s New Media RepTrak Uses Machine Learning and AI to Provide Global Companies with Predictive Reputation Data and Insights

Stuart Mitchell

Reputation Institute, the leading data, analytics, and insights company helping global organizations build credibility, has introduced Media RepTrak®, the only reputation analytics platform to use predictive analysis to identify and measure reputation risks and opportunities from digital conversations. Reputation Institute’s Media RepTrak®, powered by machine learning and AI, recognizes the most significant digital conversations from media outlets, blogs, and social media about a company and uses predictive analytics to assess the impact of these conversations on corporate reputation. Armed with these insights, companies can focus their communications efforts, strategically target…

Read More

Samaritans launch awareness campaign to encourage men to seek help

Stuart Mitchell

Two in five (41%) men in England, Scotland and Wales aged 20-59 do not seek support when they need to, because they prefer to solve their own problems. The survey also showed that men often don’t want to feel like a burden and don’t feel their problems will be understood. Samaritans is launching a campaign, supported by National Rail, called Real People, Real Stories. The campaign sees men who have overcome tough times share their stories to encourage men, who are most at risk of suicide, to seek help by…

Read More

New campaign warns ‘it only takes one accident’ to start a fire

Stuart Mitchell

A new eye-catching campaign highlighting the everyday accidents that can cause fire in the home has been launched by the Home Office today. Overloading electrical sockets, leaving a frying pan on the hob unattended and putting an electrical heater too close to laundry are among the hazards shown in the revamped Fire Kills campaign. Advertising will run across England on television, radio and online. Minister for Policing and the Fire Service, Nick Hurd, said: This hard-hitting campaign shows us how it only takes one small accident to start a devastating…

Read More