🏆 Annual Innovation Award Announcement The middle Road is thrilled to announce our annual award for the World’s Most Innovative Company 2024! 🌍✨ Key criteria for the award: 🆕 Spotlight on Innovation 🔍 · 💡 Innovation and technology enablement · 🌱 ESG impact within the global green economy · 🌐 Global influence and other complex parameters This year’s winners also focus on circular
The European Union has passed the first laws for regulating the artificial intelligence market. The Artificial Intelligence Act is a pioneering attempt to enforce a comprehensive legal framework on artificial intelligence. The laws are based on the European Union’s strategic values proposed in the white paper to build confidence for European citizens to accept AI-based solutions, considering the meteoric rise
This brief note takes a look at innovation and emerging economics in Africa. Rockefeller Foundation is situated in Nairobi, Kenya, and serves as the focal point for its work in the sub-Saharan region. Kenyan stock market is very vibrant, and in 2019 Africa would be a good bet for growth in stock markets. M-Pesa, an avatar (not to be confused with James Cameroon’s
Sylvain Kakou, IFC’s Country Manager for Central Africa. “Championing the power sector in Africa is crucial to spur development, and the private sector will be front and center of that drive.” IFC Enables Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) In a public-private partnership, IFC, in collaboration with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is bringing clean, solar energy
This article elaborates on the importance of the high-speed rail network in the US and policies for raising capital for infrastructure spending. The section includes a brief documentary on the subject matter and its tremendous positive social impact on society. First, a high-speed railway network will reduce greenhouse emissions and builds on five sustainable development goals cementing principles of the UN
“You and I, in fact, everyone all over the world, we’re all African under the skin; Brothers and sisters separated by a mere 2,000 generations. Old fashioned concepts of race are not only socially divisive but scientifically wrong. It’s only when we’ve fully taken this on board that we can say with any conviction that the journey our ancestors
UNESCO Science Report is a leading publication that discusses the interaction of science, its transition towards a greener, digitally connected society, and public policy. The world has made critical progress in the last few years as digitalization and technology penetrate our lives. But has the technology created an inclusive society? How has gender parity been measured over these years? How are
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives……. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve
John Wheeler’s famous comment “John Wheeler “Black holes have no hair” on Black Holes might have set the ball rolling that information within these infinitely densely packed invisible objects is lost forever. However, over the years, the view about Black Holes is changing with significant contributions by scientists. Three laureates won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2020 for their discoveries
The scientific community stunned the world when they detected possible fingerprints of life on planet Venus. The presence of a biosignature Phosphine (PH3) gas, an obnoxious chemical found in farts and feces, signals the origins of pathways to life. Venus, named after the Roman Goddess of love and beauty and the second brightest natural object after the moon at night, is certainly
