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New collaboration steps up fight against disinformation

Stuart Mitchell

A new industry collaboration to tackle dangerous misinformation was announced by the BBC and partners today. Major news and tech organisations will work together to protect their audiences and users from disinformation, particularly around moments of jeopardy, including elections. Earlier this summer the BBC convened a Trusted News Summit, bringing together senior figures from major global technology firms and publishing. Recent events such as the Indian elections have highlighted the dangers of disinformation and the risks it poses to democracy, and have underlined the importance of working together around shared…

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Kastner & Partners’ Brandon Rochon and Google’s Robert Wong Win 2019 One Club | ADCOLOR Creative Awards

Stuart Mitchell

Brandon Rochon, managing CCO at Kastner & Partners, and Robert Wong, VP, Google and co-founder of Google Creative Lab, are recipients of this year’s prestigious One Club | ADCOLOR Creative Awards.  The honors were presented last night at the 13th Annual ADCOLOR Awards ceremony, taking place during the 2019 ADCOLOR Conference in Los Angeles. The One Club | ADCOLOR Creative Award recognizes creative professionals of multicultural background who have demonstrated noteworthy talent and achievement within the media, creative, digital and traditional advertising disciplines.  The honor is presented jointly by ADCOLOR,…

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Google Retains Rank as World’s Most Reputable Employer in Reputation Institute’s 2019 Global Workplace 100 Study

Stuart Mitchell

Google is the world’s most reputable employer for the second consecutive year and, along with The LEGO Group and Microsoft, is one of only three companies to earn a strong global rating, according to the 2019 Global Workplace 100 released today by Reputation Institute. The largest reputation study of its kind, the 2019 Global Workplace 100 is based on 230,000 individual ratings collected in the first quarter of 2019. While Google maintained its first-place ranking, perceptions of the company as a top employer declined since last year’s study. The company’s…

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Google launch new pilot aiming to measure the environmental impact of the fashion industry

Stuart Mitchell

Google have started working together with the Stella McCartney Foundation on a new pilot to measure the environmental impact that the fashion industry has on the environment. Nick Martin, Head of Retail, Google Cloud, has written a blog post about the new pilot which I have reproduced below: Now more than ever, the fashion industry is heeding the call to sustainability. Its environmental impact is significant and growing—among other statistics, the fashion industry accounts for 20 percent of wastewater and 10 percent of carbon emissions globally. Much of this impact…

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“Diversity Pledges” Are Not Enough: Women Startup Challenge at Google to Showcase 10 Finalists Who Are Spearheading Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

To combat the severe lack of funding for women-led startups, Women Who Tech, one of the largest organizations that funds and showcases women-led ventures, announced the ten finalists selected for the Women Startup Challenge at Google. These early-stage, technology startups who are addressing serious gaps in innovation pertaining to Biotech, Education, Agriculture, Humanitarian issues, and more, were selected from 800+ applications. The Women Startup Challenge aims to close the gender gap in the tech sector, providing founders a platform to showcase their ventures which are propagating meaningful change. On May…

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