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Women are often unable to escape the poverty trap due to traditional barriers they face in society. : ‘Women of the World’ by Robyn Jay available at https://bit.ly/3YxnQFS CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Research across the world demonstrates how global poverty can be tackled effectively by empowering women in all aspects.

Empowering women to reduce poverty

Poverty battle raged on in 2022, here are four ways women are working to escape it

Research across the world demonstrates how global poverty can be tackled effectively by empowering women in all aspects.

Economy
Meenakshi Dewan age 20 is one of 4 women from the village of Tinginapu, in the Eastern Ghats, Orissa, who has been trained in solar powered engineering. : DFID

As climate, energy and digital sectors converge it’s up to policymakers to make sure they work well together.

Energy transition

Silos holding back the energy transition

As climate, energy and digital sectors converge it’s up to policymakers to make sure they work well together.

Economy
Meet Pepper, a semi-humanoid robot used in social robotics research. Pepper can interact with people through speech, gestures and an integrated tablet. Pepper is currently being used in projects such as robots in public space by Monash University. : Shanti Sumartojo, Monash University

New cities should not be built to cater for robots and technology; instead robots must adapt to live with humans in existing cities.

Robot cities

There’s only so much a robot can do

New cities should not be built to cater for robots and technology; instead robots must adapt to live with humans in existing cities.

Science
Education, key to women’s empowerment, can be one of the key beneficiaries of blockchain technology. : ‘IMG 3006’ by IICD is available at https://bit.ly3EL5qd4 Licensed under CC BY 2.0

The technology can help circumvent traditional barriers to women’s empowerment.

Empowering women to reduce poverty

Blockchain’s potential extends to poverty busting

Economy
Deep journalism uses artificial intelligence to analyse differing views on a topic : Michael Joiner 360info CC 4.0

A machine learning tool to analyse complex sets of information has been shown to find policy areas overlooked by governments.

Your right to information

‘Deep journalism’ driven by AI can aid better government

Technology
Open data is instrumental in achieving a transparent and accountable government. : Markus Spiske, Unsplash Unsplash License

Harnessing the value of open data requires reflection on who benefits most.

Your right to information

The ideal of open data has unexamined flaws

Human Interest
Using artificial intelligence to predict the behaviour of communities can veer close to surveillance. : Dorieo, Wikimedia CC 4.0

Governments can and do use artificial intelligence to direct their citizens and their policy. But are we prepared for how far it could go?

Next-gen chatbots

When governments use AI to predict what the people want

Technology
Students at a school in China were reportedly asked to wear American devices that monitored their concentration levels (file image). : Thomas Galvez CC 2.0

Tapping into someone’s thoughts may soon be technologically possible. Our institutions are ill-equipped to deal with the resulting human rights violations.

Brain–machine interfaces

The ethics of mind-reading

Human Interest
Brain-machine interface technology connects the brain directly to machine intelligence. : Michael Joiner, 360 info CC BY 4.0

Backgrounder: 634 words

360info is looking into how far brain-machine interface research has come and what is currently at the forefront of science and technology.

4 perspectives

4 perspectives
Special Report

Brain-machine interfaces

Science