The University of Michigan School of Public Health has announced a new online Master of Science (MS) degree in Population and Health Sciences, expanding its online degree offerings to learners across the globe. The new online degree builds on the School of Public Health’s existing online Master of Public Health (MPH)
Month: April 2020
The Cities4Forests Toolbox
Merida, a city in Mexico’s lush Yucatán Peninsula, is home to 2.3 million trees, which cover over 20 percent of the metropolitan area. Merida’s officials know that these trees provide benefits to the residents, but until recently they didn’t know how much these benefits were worth or how they were distributed
Smart Dashboards for cities: digital urban services
Steering the real-time city through urban big data and city dashboards?
In this article, Prof. Rob Kitchin of Maynooth University discusses the emergence and growth of smart city agendas in Ireland – and the role of dashboards in both visualising open and shared data and allowing city managers to monitor how a city is performing at particular points in time and govern it accordingly. For
Handling Domestic Waste using recyclable/reusable material by Vasuki Iyengar, through TheBetterIndia Platform.
The household waste is one of the critical factor in maintaining hygiene at home during these lock-down days where regular waste collections services may be effected with medical emergencies in place. To encourage individuals and enthusiasts towards managing their own wet waste, its an interesting article preparing Composting bins with
How AI is helping spot wildfires faster
Santa Fe-based Descartes Labs which uses AI to analyze satellite imagery, launched its US wildfire detector in July. The company's AI software pores over images coming in roughly every few minutes from two different US government weather satellites, in search of any changes — the presence of smoke, a
Webinar on The Emergence of Big Data and Its Solutions
Assessing the global problem of poor sanitation
Experts are investigating a better way of measuring the number of people exposed to the health risks of poorly-managed sanitation systems - and it will help reveal whether the world is on track to deliver UN Sustainable Goal 6 (SDG6) for further information read https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200325120854.htm