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Ford Sustainability Report details pilot program in South Africa to deliver health care, education

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A new Ford Motor Company pilot program aims to enhance mobility health services in rural areas of South Africa and Nigeria. Two modified Ford Rangers will work as mobile clinics to deliver health services, dispense medication for chronic conditions, and monitor the growth of children in South Africa.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott. Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. Meanwhile he found that companies using AI to invent were growing worried. “AI More than 340 people attended.

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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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More than 250 academics, companies, nonprofit organizations, individuals, and students from 69 countries entered the contest. First place in the best overall proof-of-concept category went to social enterprise startup Wakoma for the Nimble , an open-source, portable, wireless mesh network system that communities can build and deploy locally.

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Anglo American Platinum invests in Hydrogenious Technologies; liquid organic hydrogen carrier technology for H2 storage

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South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Global billionaires unite in “Breakthrough energy coalition” to support development of zero-carbon energy

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It is the private sector that knows how to build companies, to evaluate the potential for success, and to take the risks that lead to taking innovative ideas and bringing them to the world. Patrice Motsepe, Founder and Executive Chairman, African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), South Africa. —Breakthrough energy coalition.

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Axion International signs LOI to form global JV with Sicut Holding to target $8B railroad tie market with recycled structural composites

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Axion International, a leading producer of industrial building products and railroad ties made from 100% recycled plastic ( earlier post ), has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Sicut Holding Limited (previously Micron Inc. The joint venture will be 65% owned by Axion and 35% owned by Sicut.

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Ford launches innovate mobility challenge series

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The worldwide challenges kicked off in Lisbon, Portugal; Los Angeles, United States; and Mumbai, India; before moving on to Delhi and the Chennai region in India; Shanghai, China; Johannesburg, South Africa; and a countrywide challenge in Argentina. Venkatesh Prasad, senior technical leader, Open Innovation, Ford Motor Company.

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