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E-scooters, bikes and urban mobility: lessons from the streets of Paris This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Tiago Ratinho, IÉSEG School of Management Mobility is a crucial challenge for global cities in the 21st century. The growing impact and immense risks of climate change are becoming clearer every day, […]
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Mobile-based lending is huge in Kenya: but there’s a downside too This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Victor Odundo Owuor, Senior Research Associate, One Earth Future Foundation, University of Colorado Boulder Over the past 10 years mobile-based lending has grown in Kenya. Some estimates put the number of mobile […]
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Plain language about health data is essential for transparency and trust This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. P. Alison Paprica, University of Toronto; Kimberlyn McGrail, University of British Columbia, and Michael J. Schull, University of Toronto Ask any group of people if they have read and understood the last […]
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Ken Loach’s new film on the gig economy tells exactly the same story as our research This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Robert MacDonald, University of Huddersfield Ken Loach’s film, Sorry We Missed You, tells the harrowing tale of Ricky, Abby and their family’s attempts to get by in […]
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How women entrepreneurs are changing Indian society This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Mili Shrivastava, Lecturer in Strategy, Bournemouth University In India, the proportion of women in paid work is among the lowest in the world, at just over 23% – a figure which contrasts sharply with the corresponding […]
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Facial analysis AI is being used in job interviews – it will probably reinforce inequality This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Ivan Manokha, University of Oxford Artificial intelligence and facial analysis software is becoming commonplace in job interviews. The technology, developed by US company HireVue, analyses the language and […]
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Historians’ archival research looks quite different in the digital age This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Ian Milligan, University of Waterloo Our society’s historical record is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Think of all the information that you create today that will be part of the record for tomorrow. More […]
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Universities must teach their budding scientists entrepreneurship This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Karl Kunert, University of Pretoria and Christopher Cullis, Case Western Reserve University A strong background in science and technology is crucial for students who want to become academic research scientists. But there are many other jobs […]
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Worker-protection laws aren’t ready for an automated future This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. August 28, 2019 1.58pm BST Author: Jeffrey Hirsch, Geneva Yeargan Rand Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Science fiction has long imagined a future in which humans constantly interact with […]
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