Day: 2 September 2024

QNB signs flagship deal with the Chartered Institute of Marketing to upskill staff

Stuart Mitchell

The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) and QNB have announced a partnership to deliver best in class marketing training to QNB’s Marketing and Communications team, developing the firm’s marketing capabilities and responding to the global challenges faced by leading brands around the world.   The partnership is the first for CIM with a Middle Eastern headquartered financial institution. CIM has helped QNB’s team to develop best practice global marketing skills, driving forward their marketing output and supporting career development. This partnership bolsters the firm’s marketing functionality and supports QNB’s aim to…

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New Research from Virgin Media O2 and Internet Matters Reveal Parents’ Fear of AI & Deepfake Threat to Kids

Stuart Mitchell

As millions of children begin their summer holidays and spend more time online, new research from Virgin Media O2 and Internet Matters reveals parents and carers have significant concern about the threat AI poses to their children.  Three quarters (75%) of parents surveyed1 say they’re worried about the dangers of AI-generated deepfake audio and video, and more than a third (36%) consider them to be more of a threat than cyberbullying, hate speech and violent content.   Hidden Risks Research   Virgin Media O2 and Internet Matters’ Hidden Risks research surveyed more…

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The United Kingdom is Among Top Email Carbon Emitters with 2,751 Tons Daily: 2024 Study Reveals

Stuart Mitchell

Zero Bounce conducted research to identify the countries sending out the most emails daily, resulting in the most amount of CO2 emissions. The study used the most recent reports of population numbers from the World Population Review. The information about the percentage of email users was retrieved from the reports by Statista. The reports about the number of emails sent out per country were taken from the Talos Intelligence website. It is globally recognized that on average one email transaction emits 0.3 grams of CO2. The carbon footprint was calculated according…

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Better Cotton to Advance Gender Equality and Climate Resilience in India with New Impact Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, and impact investment firm, FS Impact Finance, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop and launch a fund directed at smallholder farmers in the cotton sector. The fund, initially piloted in India, will help incentivise cotton farming communities to invest in field-level work related to women’s empowerment and climate resilience by eliminating traditional financing barriers. Smallholders, who make up more than 90% of the world’s cotton farmers, often struggle to access adequate financial support due to their Farmer Producer…

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Water Conservation Solutions From High School and University Teams Take Top Prize in 2024 Xylem Global Student Innovation Challenge

Stuart Mitchell

Global water technology leader Xylem recently announced that teams from the Philippines and Algeria were the grand prize winners of its 2024 Xylem Global Student Innovation Challenge. The annual program invites high school and university students worldwide to develop solutions to the world’s biggest water challenges. More than 4,400 students from 150 countries participated in this year’s challenge, which asked young innovators to tackle three critical water problems: reducing ocean plastic waste, raising awareness about sustainability and water conservation, and lowering indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with enhanced water purification…

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