As educators struggle to motivate more students to take up technology-related majors, breakout online education startup, Khan Academy, has a novel approach.
IHOF: Is there sexist segregation in subject matters or curriculum, or in teaching methods or attitudes, that discourage girls from taking up technology?
One firm, the California-based analytics firm Euclid, is hoping to encourage wider take up of tracking technology by offering Euclid Express, which offers retailers a free analytics solution for brick-and-mortar shops.
One firm, the California-based analytics firm Euclid, is hoping to encourage wider take up of tracking technology by offering Euclid Express, which offers retailers a free analytics solution for brick-and-mortar shops.
Even if there is a large scale take up of the new technologies, which could cut emissions by 19%, McKinsey estimates that the combined emissions from road transport would still increase more than fourfold within the next two decades.
Europeans have also been slower to take up information technology, and the economic climate has been less conducive to innovation and research and development (R&D).The transatlantic gap can be exaggerated: much of America's faster GDP growth merely reflects faster population growth and longer hours of work, and differences in measurement also play a role.
Benbrook paints a grim picture for Europe: if EU farmers take up HTGE technology as quickly as US farmers did, glyphosate use in maize crops – the most important and widely grown crop in Europe – will increase by more than 1,000% by 2025 over current use, and total herbicide use will double.
Several police forces are already interested, Pof Jennings says, and he hopes both governments and NGOs will take up the technology.
