Common Good

• The panel 'AI for Common Good,' explored the collective impact of AI applications in the fields of research, education, policy, philanthropy, and media on cultivating the next generation of leaders and problem-solvers.
• Her Excellency the Minister commented: "Qatar is one of the early adopters of a national K-12 AI curriculum.
• It aims at preparing students for a workforce that increasingly involves AI technologies and skills."
• Co-founder and CEO of The Wolfram Group, Conrad Wolfram, delivered a keynote speech during the closing ceremony on the critical importance of computational thinking in the age of AI.

• CASE Network 2 provides access to digital learning standards for U.S. K-12 education
  LAKE MARY, Fla., Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- 1EdTech® Consortium and Common Good Learning Tools announce a partnership to launch CASE® Network 2.
• CASE Network 2 is a significant upgrade to the current CASE Network that provides access to K-12 learning standards in a digital format.
• Common Good Learning Tools will host CASE Network 2 using their Standards Satchel CASE publishing tool.
• "Our mission is to build learning tools for the common good," said Pepper Williams, President of Common Good Learning Tools.

• In 2022, the richest fifth of the UK population had an income more than 12 times that of the poorest fifth.
• Many of these firms are located in the City, which the Corporation states “drives the UK economy, generating over £85bn in economic output annually”.
• An alternative perspective is that these contributions should be balanced against what the City takes out of the wider UK economy.
• In 2022, the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that the biggest boom in City bonuses since the 2008 financial crisis would further increase this inequality gap.

The City’s diversity smokescreen

• This is a complex picture, but few disagree that developing a more equitable UK economy and society requires significant structural change.
• Politically, this has been recognised from most sides amid often heated debates about the new levelling-up bill.
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Changing the national conversation

• I believe they are well placed to help change the national conversation, by asking more of their leaders on this front.
• Within many corporate organisations, the issue of inequality is positioned as part of corporate sustainability agendas, or the currently more fashionable “environmental, social and governance”.
• The momentum to help drive these and many other changes requires a majority of the population on board.
• We need its leaders to play a central role in our national debate about how to address this problem.

• NEW YORK, May 30, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Litmus Health , the research-ready infrastructure platform for wearables and sensor data, today announced that Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Samuel Volchenboum has been appointed as chairman of the Clinical Research Data Sharing Alliance (CRDSA) .
• Since its founding in 2021, the CRDSA has been focused on serving the clinical data sharing ecosystem by addressing the challenges in the life sciences data sharing ecosystem.
• In addition to serving as Cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer to Litmus Health, Dr. Volchenboum currently serves as Director of Data for the Common Good and their flagship project, the Pediatric Data Commons at the University of Chicago.
• To learn more about how Dr. Volchenboum and Litmus Health are working to provide end-to-end solutions for clinical trial data capture, monitoring, and analysis, visit litmushealth.com.