Day: 26 June 2022

PRSSA Named Finalist in Ragan’s CSR & Diversity Awards for Mentorship Program with FINN Partners

Stuart Mitchell

PRSSA, the foremost organization for students interested in the public relations and communications fields, was recently named a finalist in Ragan’s CSR & Diversity Awards. The awards recognize influential communications work making a positive difference and efforts making the world safer, healthier, more equitable and sustainable. The organization, alongside integrated marketing agency FINN Partners, earned a finalist spot in the Industry Partnership/Alliances category for its mentorship program – “Partners for Diversity: The Internship Preview” – which the two organizations first initiated in February 2021. Winners will be announced during an…

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CISL joins Science Based Targets Network as NGO partner

Stuart Mitchell

CISL is joining the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN), a collaboration of leading global non-profits and mission driven organizations working to shape private sector impacts on the environment by using science-based targets for nature to empower companies to measure their contribution to a nature-positive economy. The SBTN is part of the Global Commons Alliance, which brings together organisations from a diverse range of sectors and industries with the aim of empowering effective stewardship of the global commons. The Science Based Targets Network aims to enable the world’s major companies to…

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Airbus increases its UK innovation footprint to develop new hydrogen technologies

Stuart Mitchell

Airbus is strengthening its presence in the UK with the launch of a Zero Emission Development Centre (ZEDC) for hydrogen technologies. A priority for the UK ZEDC will be the development of a cost-competitive cryogenic fuel system required for the successful entry-into-service of Airbus’ ZEROe passenger aircraft by 2035 and to accelerate UK skills and know-how on hydrogen-propulsion technologies. The UK ZEDC will benefit from the recent commitment by the UK Government to guarantee £685 million of funding to the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) over the next three years to…

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Creative UK and the Mayor of London’s Culture Team announce partnership to support creative freelancers

Stuart Mitchell

Freelancers make up nearly half of the jobs in the capital’s world-leading culture and Creative Industries, but the pandemic has hit them hard. Up to 60 per cent lost all their work during the pandemic. Self-employed workers have been much more exposed to the economic shock of the crisis, and at least 200,000 self-employed Londoners have been excluded from Government support. Creative UK and the Mayor of London’s Culture Team are delighted to announce a partnership to tackle systemic inequalities and to encourage under-represented groups to enter and stay in…

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ICO fines facial recognition database company Clearview AI Inc more than £7.5m and orders UK data to be deleted

Stuart Mitchell

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Clearview AI Inc £7,552,800 for using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition. The ICO has also issued an enforcement notice, ordering the company to stop obtaining and using the personal data of UK residents that is publicly available on the internet, and to delete the data of UK residents from its systems. The ICO enforcement action comes after a…

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