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Sorting the Future of SMS4Dev at San Francisco Salon

San Francisco | By Wayan Vota on June 24, 2010 | Comments Off on Sorting the Future of SMS4Dev at San Francisco Salon

Short Message Service (SMS) text messages, which started as a way for Nokia engineers to test mobile phone network operations, has grown into a killer app – for everyone. At the SMS4Dev Technology Salon in San Francisco, we looked at three ways to apply SMS to pressing development projects.
SMS4D-2: the Cloud-Based SMS Solutions Salon

Washington DC | By Wayan Vota on May 26, 2010 | Comments Off on SMS4D-2: the Cloud-Based SMS Solutions Salon

Now that your interest was piqued with last month’s SMS for Development Technology Salon, get ready for SMS4D-2: the Cloudy Salon.

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  Development and humanitarian agencies are in a strategic position to broker relationships around artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. They often have access to desirable data about un- or underrepresented communities, and they can facilitate the entry of tech and data companies into frontier markets. Without careful scrutiny and purposeful partnering, however, social sector organizations can serve…
  
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  You Need Generative AI Guidance and Data Governance Policy
  
  All the hype around artificial intelligence – including generative AI – really starts with “old school” machine learning. The grandest large language models are basically algorithms looking at reams of data. That means training data is key for any GenAI activity, and an AI activity. The most accomplished GenAI tools are software agents that return…
  
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  10 Ways to Help Your Organization Adopt Artificial Intelligence
  
  Our March 11 Technology Salon in New York City welcomed managers and directors from some 25 organizations for a discussion (therapy session?!) on how to manage the pain points of Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption at development, humanitarian, and other non-profit organizations. Kick-starting the discussion were Friederike Schüür, UNICEF’s Chief of Data Strategy and Data Governance;…
  
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