Canadian Manufacturing

AUGUST 31, 2023

Today we are incredibly excited to join this group of businesses that share our ethos – harnessing the power of business to build stronger communities, reduce economic inequality and create a more sustainable environment for everyone,” said Adrien Geiger, Chief Sustainability Officer at the L’OCCITANE Group.

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E&T

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

MPs on the cross-party Transport Commission have also called for road rules to be swiftly implemented to allow the new technology to proliferate, but warned it could worsen congestion and exacerbate existing inequalities in transport access if not implemented properly.

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Manufacturing 98

Manufacturing & Logistics IT

AUGUST 4, 2021

New analysis from Sedex, one of the world’s leading ethical trade membership organisations, has revealed insights on gender roles within global supply chains from its members, as it calls for all businesses to collect gender data.

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Supply Chain 69

Canadian Manufacturing

AUGUST 15, 2022

Climate change brings both threats and opportunities to Ontario agriculture and food systems, while existing human health inequities will be worsened by climate change. In the Great Lakes Basin, adaptive management is key for addressing climate change impacts, and adaptation measures improve forest health, carbon storage and biodiversity.

Compliance 52

Compliance Manufacturing 52

E&T

JULY 25, 2023

We know that pursuing a clean energy economy brings with it the potential to create jobs, address regional inequality and, perhaps most importantly in the context of extraordinarily high gas prices, it can provide permanent energy affordability and security for the whole country.”

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Sourcing 98

E&T

JUNE 14, 2023

Today, digital technologies such as AI and the internet ‘increase inequality and undermine democracy’. According to the conventional wisdom, to rectify the rise in inequality and build even more solid foundations for shared prosperity, workers must find a way to acquire more of the skills they need to work alongside new technologies.

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Automation Form Manufacturing 97

E&T

JULY 28, 2023

Dr Jemma Kwint, NIHR senior research fellow and author of the report, said: “We all need to be able to trust AI and ensure that it does not increase inequalities in care. The high-quality studies are useful examples of the evidence we need to build trust in this advancing technology.

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Artificial Intelligence 98

E&T

JUNE 20, 2023

It said public and private investment in an “urgent” programme of retrofitting would tackle health inequalities, reduce household energy bills and help the UK reach its net-zero targets. A study by the advisory service found that more than 15 million homes across Great Britain are energy-inefficient.

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AU Manufacturing

MARCH 21, 2023

Professor Brown has dedicated his research career to understanding and overcoming health inequalities experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, particularly the burden of chronic conditions,” Minister Husic said.

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Manufacturing 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The report stated that pay inequality at smaller organisations was driven by a limited understanding of equal pay and how it applies to them. The report stated that pay inequality at smaller organisations was driven by a limited understanding of equal pay and how it applies to them. per cent, with an increase of 0.3

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Manufacturing 64

Canadian Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Macklem also spoke about the inequities in the economics discipline. While not substitutes to higher interest rates, Macklem said increasing supply in the economy will help ease inflation, adding that the more that can be done to help supply grow the less demand will need to be suppressed.

Compliance 40

Compliance Manufacturing 40

Dinesh Mishra

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

” Automation may widen inequalities. Fields like data, renewable energy, genetics – anything cutting-edge – will need skilled talent, which India has in spades. The tricky bit is the social angle. Maggioncalda admits, “Trust in AI grows if ethical and social aspects are responsibly addressed.”

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Artificial Intelligence Automation 52

i4.0 today

JULY 20, 2023

AI will be able to do the same thing for businesses as pricey management consultant firms for a vastly reduced cost, he explains, plus, AI will accommodate the massive inequity looming on the horizon when it comes to job openings and talent available due to a significant percentage of the population aging out of employment.

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Artificial Intelligence Supply Chain Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 74

Canadian Manufacturing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The report released this week says the data suggest that inequality in coverage has narrowed between some job types. Self-reported coverage appears to have increased for groups that traditionally have lower rates of coverage, including workers with full-time temporary jobs and non-unionized jobs.

Manufacturing 45

Manufacturing 45

E&T

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While Hargittai’s quest to discover how “long-existing social and digital inequalities played a critical role in … computer-mediated communication,” confirms our common- sense suspicions, it’s good to see that they are supported by data.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It warned that without careful handling, the technology could worsen congestion and exacerbate existing inequalities in transport access. The Committee said the government should take a “cautious, gradual approach” by introducing SDVs only in well-defined contexts.

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E&T

AUGUST 14, 2023

Its houses were uniformly small and show no signs of social stratification or significant inequality among the population. The researchers said that the settlement of Pingliangtai shows little evidence of social hierarchy.

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E&T

MAY 2, 2023

Through outreach programmes and other measures, top universities are working to address inequalities in their student cohorts. Indeed, in 2016 only 1.5 per cent of the University of Cambridge’s student intake was black, while at the University of Oxford, 1.2

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

He was also critical of the economic impact of the mini-budget, telling a press conference in Norwich earlier this week: “There seems to be some deep inequality around how it has been set and whether it will provide any support at all for the poorest in our communities facing the cost-of-living crisis.”. They do this at our peril.”.

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i4.0 today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

To counterbalance the global inequalities in CO 2 e emissions, Sumitomo (SHI Demag UK’s offsets are funding four international Woodland Fund projects closely aligned to their business principles. They include energy reduction, socio-economic and environmental education, reforestation and biodiversity.

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Benchmarking Supply Chain Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 52

AU Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Building energy support and infrastructure which evenly supports diverse populations, in rural and urban communities alike will help to avoid inequalities in switching to electric vehicles,” Professor Pink added. It is important that policymakers understand how people are likely to adopt electric vehicles.

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Manufacturing 80

AU Manufacturing

JULY 26, 2022

The key principles suggested in the study are aimed at ensuring the achievement of decarbonisation while avoiding the creation of new harms or inequalities in society. They include: .

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AU Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Elevate aims to address gender inequities in STEM through supporting women to study and work in STEM, by fostering more women-led industry-academia collaborations in applied research and business, growing professional skills of women in STEM and by propelling women into leadership.

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Canadian Manufacturing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Further advances mean AI could exacerbate global inequities, facilitate automated warfare, orchestrate mass manipulation and pervasively surveil people. The time to act is now, they say, because AI has already surpassed some human abilities since these systems can act faster, absorb more knowledge and communicate faster than humans.

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Automation Mag

DECEMBER 4, 2023

There are ethical considerations in ensuring data bias does not amplify inequities, similar to the concerns with artificial intelligence. Access to technology by smaller companies and access to training for employees and underserved communities will be important to consider as quantum gains traction.

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Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Automation 69

E&T

MAY 9, 2023

If we are to not only tackle our regional inequality but also compete on a global stage, we need a national industrial strategy as a matter of urgency . “A lack of a proper, planned, industrial strategy is the UK’s Achilles heel,” said Stephen Phipson, the trade body’s chief executive. “If

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Aerospace Manufacturing 105

AU Manufacturing

JUNE 18, 2023

For decades, industry players and government institutions in Australia and around the world have drawn up various plans to tackle gender inequity within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics industry.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing 52

E&T

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The project strives to bridge the inequalities in STEM and to encourage participation from under-represented communities through working in collaboration with practitioners. In 2020, the UK government acknowledged the importance of STEM with £179m of investment in the future of UK science.

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Robotics Robotics 93

MEM

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is in line with its vision to drive sustainable operations throughout the business by taking action for promoting good health and wellbeing, reducing inequalities, practicing responsible consumption and production, and lastly, reducing its carbon footprint.

Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing 52

i4.0 today

MAY 11, 2023

Reliance on technology can result in higher unemployment, higher competition for minimum wage jobs and higher inequality. This means those whose skills are suited for this new workplace will thrive but for others, the future may be bleak.

Automation 52

Automation 52

E&T

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Gapsquare develops AI-based software that crunches employment data to address issues such as gender pay inequality, with Nanu seeing it as her mission “to help organisations put a stop to biases and prejudicial practices preventing equality”. This is because you have people saying: ‘oh, it’s all a big myth. Everyone’s paid equally.

Artificial Intelligence 45

Artificial Intelligence Robotics Robotics Automation 45

AU Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Ensure we build women’s climate change leadership to address climate and gender inequality. Amplify the voices of those most affected by the crisis, including women, people with disability and other marginalised groups, and ensure they are at the decision-making table.

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Canadian Metalworking Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the wake of recent acts of extreme brutality and injustice and mass protests, we’re examining our role in perpetuating systems of inequality. We’re designing systems to protect against machine learning bias.

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Artificial Intelligence 119

E&T

JULY 29, 2022

Kham said: “The climate emergency is the biggest global threat we face today and we know it doesn’t affect all Londoners equally, with communities suffering poverty, deprivation and health inequalities more likely to experience the worst effects of flooding, overheating and poor quality air. “As

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Canadian Manufacturing

AUGUST 12, 2022

NDP critic for tax fairness and inequality, Niki Ashton, said at a news conference last month that she wants the federal government to close loopholes she says are being used by the super-rich and corporations to avoid paying billions in taxes. The NDP has been putting pressure on the federal government to do more to tax the super-rich.

Compliance 40

Compliance Automotive Manufacturing 40

SMMT

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive and Chair of the Automotive Council UK Competitiveness and Business Environment Group, said, This Charter is a pivotal moment for the automotive industry – a collective pledge to drive positive change, drive out inequality, and demonstrate progress.

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Automotive Aerospace Manufacturing 98

E&T

JANUARY 27, 2023

At the end of the day, it is humans who code; and human errors are often the cause of algorithmic bias and technology’s tendency to reproduce inequality. Rather than thinking of coding as a skill solely useful for the tech sector, Code for What?

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Artificial Intelligence 59