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Thompson Reuters op-ed: Four ways AI can help tackle climate change
2020 was a transformative year. It brought profound trials, tribulations and losses – but it has also highlighted the power of AI and other technologies to solve today’s most urgent...
Letter from President Vilas Dhar: Historic merger launches Data and Society initiative
With great joy, I announce a historic merger that will rapidly accelerate the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation’s vision to create a thriving, equitable and sustainable world enabled by data and...
Data and Society
“Data science and AI-based tools, deployed with purpose and social conscience, could improve nearly every part of the human experience. Enabling civil society to access technologies will unlock transformational approaches...
Tech for Global Good Laureates inspire next generation of problem solvers
All around the world, social innovators are using technology to tackle big problems — from homelessness to protecting livestock to safeguarding children from COVID-19. The Tech Interactive, a San Jose,...
World Economic Forum op-ed: To harness the AI age, governments must keep these 7 factors in mind
Foundation President Vilas Dhar and Kay Firth-Butterfield, head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum argue that governments should weigh AI...
USA Today op-ed: Biden reopens door to refugees and Americans who want to help them
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation President Vilas Dhar and RefugePoint CEO Sasha Chanoff respond to the Biden Administration’s recent Executive Order on refugee resettlement and highlight how building a more enduring...