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Landmark moment as MILLIONTH learner takes Institute of Coding digital skills course

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BATH, England, Aug. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Institute of Coding (IoC), led by the University of Bath, has today [16th August 2023] announced that one million learners have participated in its range of digital skills programmes.

The IoC’s latest initiative, Click Start, is a national programme which helps to close the UK’s digital skills gap, with reports suggesting 10.2 million adults lack the necessary skills for getting online. There are 870,000 job vacancies in the tech sector.
Click Start supports those who experience barriers to accessing education, while boosting diversity within the tech industry. The programme is funded by Nominet, the public benefit company that operates and protects UK internet infrastructure.
Five years after the IoC launched, the one millionth learner to take a course is Molly Smailova, a mum from the North East learning tech skills while pregnant with her third child.
Molly is taking the Click Start TechUPWomen programme at Durham University, which specifically targets young women across the North, giving them vital digital skills to kickstart a career in tech.  
Professor Rachid Hourizi MBE, Director of the Institute of Coding, said:
“Today’s milestone achievement demonstrates the success of the IoC’s hugely collaborative work across the UK, supported by educators, employers and charities, to maximise the opportunities for people from all walks of life.
“We are so proud that a million people have now taken an IoC programme, boosting their confidence and earning power. Soon everyone will know someone who has benefited from the digital skills learning and careers support we provide.”
Molly Smailova, the one millionth Institute of Coding learner, said:
“I previously worked in the recruitment industry and was always interested in tech roles but I never knew where to get the skills I needed to change my career.
“The flexible programme allowed me to complete my studies alongside caring for my two young children, with my experiences giving me the confidence boost I need to succeed in becoming a data analyst.” 
The IoC’s career-ready courses on cyber security, website development and data programming feature access to specialist careers guidance and mentoring from tech industry leaders.  
Meanwhile, the Institute’s has driven inclusion in the tech sector with hundreds of thousands of young people from low-income and marginalised backgrounds embarking on new digital careers. 47% identify as women.
Further details can be found here: https://instituteofcoding.org/
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Gcore Named as a Major Player in IDC MarketScape Report for European Public Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) 2024

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LUXEMBOURG, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Gcore, the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced that it has been positioned as a Major Player by industry research firm IDC, in its recent  “IDC MarketScape: European Public Cloud Infrastructure (IaaS) 2024” (document number:# EUR151035423, August 2024) report.

The report evaluates public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers in Europe and covers qualifying global and regional cloud providers that offer IaaS across Europe (including CEE as well as Western Europe).
“We believe being recognised by the IDC MarketScape as a Major Player is a testament to our commitment to delivering high-quality edge cloud computing services that empower our customers to securely build and scale their applications,” commented Andre Reitenbach, CEO at Gcore. “Our services prioritize performance, security, and scalability, enabling businesses to grow without the complexities of infrastructure management, so they can focus on innovation and business outcomes.”
Gcore operates a global network with 180+ points of presence and 50+ strategically placed cloud locations, offering low-latency access to key markets. The platform supports a variety of workloads, providing solutions from virtual machines to bare metal servers, delivering flexible compute capacity for both standard and high-performance applications.
 
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.
 
About Gcore 
Gcore is a global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider. Headquartered in Luxembourg, with a team of 600 operating from ten offices worldwide, Gcore provides solutions to global leaders in numerous industries. Gcore manages its global IT infrastructure across six continents, with one of the best network performances in Europe, Africa, and LATAM due to the average response time of 30 ms worldwide. Gcore’s network consists of 180 points of presence worldwide in reliable Tier IV and Tier III data centers, with a total network capacity exceeding 200 Tbps. Learn more at gcore.com
 
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Huawei Austria Celebrates Five Years of TECH4ALL Nature Conservation at Biodiversity Forum

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VIENNA, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Huawei hosted the Innovations for Biodiversity Forum this week to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Huawei’s TECH4ALL digital inclusion initiative and share insights into how technology is revolutionizing biodiversity protection.  

Launched in 2019 and aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, TECH4ALL leverages technology and partnerships to create a positive impact in four domains: environment, education, health, and development. In the environment domain, Huawei TECH4ALL has run nature conservation projects in 53 protected areas with global and local partners in forest, wetland, and ocean ecosystems around the world.
“Over the past five years, Huawei’s TECH4ALL program has demonstrated how technology can be a powerful force for good, addressing global challenges in environmental protection, education, and digital inclusion,” said Harvey Zhang, CEO of Huawei Austria.
The Innovations for Biodiversity Forum focused on TECH4ALL nature conservation projects in Europe, including findings of biodiversity monitoring in the wetland ecosystem around Austria’s Lake Neusiedl.
The quality of the reed bed habitats in this ecosystem is declining, negatively impacting amphibian species, mammals, and bird life. Since 2021, audio monitoring devices have collected more than 2 million individual audio files of 69 bird species.
This vast dataset will help develop a conservation management plan for the ecosystem, including controlled fire management to rejuvenate aging reed beds and strengthen overall biodiversity by understanding the habitat preferences of the individual species studied.
“Hardly any reed harvesting has been done in recent decades, which has had a negative impact on the state of the reed belt. The study investigated whether targeted fires could have an effect similar to that of harvesting. To do this, areas that show different age conditions due to fires were compared,” said Dr. Christian Schulze from the Department of Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna. “The research showed that older reed beds harbor the greatest diversity of bird species. However, the analysis of individual species also shows that controlled reed fires have positive aspects.”
The forum explored a similar TECH4ALL monitoring project in Poland to build a more complete picture of biodiversity in the Białowieża National Park ecosystem, also with the aim of developing targeted conservation measures.
Greek startup PROBOTEK introduced a forest fire-prevention solution that uses sensors, drones, AI, and 5G to detect and transmit real-time video-footage of fire risks, which are on the rise in parts of Europe due to climate change and rising temperatures. The project is designed to enable emergency response in the first ‘golden 15 minutes’ of a forest fire being detected, notify residents of evacuation routes, and plan routes for fire trucks and ambulances.
The forum also looked at the success of an AI-based filtering system designed to protect Norway’s wild Atlantic salmon from possible extinction due to the invasive pink salmon species. The pilot project in 2023 successfully filtered out 6,000 invasive salmon, and expectations are high that the solution, the world’s first of its type, can be scaled out across Norway’s river systems.
On day two of the forum, the media delegation in attendance visited Lake Neusiedl to learn how the TECH4ALL solution works in practice and the transformative effect that intelligent digital technologies can have on nature conservation.
About Huawei TECH4ALL
TECH4ALL is Huawei’s long-term digital inclusion initiative. Enabled by innovative technologies and partnerships, TECH4ALL aims to promote inclusion and sustainability in the digital world.
For more information, visit the Huawei TECH4ALL website: https://www.huawei.com/en/tech4all 
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Fivecast launches Discovery to tackle global threats with OSINT innovation.

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ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Responding directly to an increased global threat environment, Fivecast, the global provider of market-leading open-source intelligence (OSINT) solutions, has announced the launch of a Discovery solution that empowers analysts and investigators across both the Government and Corporate sectors to uncover intelligence insights faster to help protect communities and businesses.

Fivecast Discovery automates and accelerates the processes of digital footprinting, information verification and identity resolution. These capabilities significantly enhance the crucial initial stages of intelligence investigations which can typically be impeded by huge data volumes, complex threats and resource constraints, causing insights to be missed.
Learn more here.
Taming a Sea of Open-Source Data
Fivecast provides unmatched access to millions of publicly and commercially available data sources including news streams, search engines, people and company databases, social media, sanctions, watch lists, curated datasets, dark web and data leaks. Investigators can conduct discovery across billions of data points including more than 8 billion people records and 28 billion unique identifiers, 9 billion accounts and social handles, 280 million companies, 10 billion data leaks, 200 million dark web records and many more.
A one-stop shop for intelligence teams
Fivecast’s new Discovery solution is seamlessly integrated within the market-leading Fivecast ONYX platform, resulting in a complete OSINT solution that covers the end-to-end intelligence investigation cycle.
Fivecast CEO & Co-founder, Dr. Brenton Cooper, commented, “Our Discovery solution provides both broad and fast search and discovery with the ability to seamlessly pivot into deep, targeted data collection, AI-enabled risk assessment and content analysis. This is a unique combination of capabilities that drives better analytical outputs and improves efficiencies for our customers across the national security, corporate security, financial crime risk management and due diligence market sectors.”
Driving Essential Insights Faster
Fivecast Discovery enables analyst resources to be optimized, reducing manual complexity, and increasing search efficiency. Starting a search in just three clicks, results are delivered in seconds. Analysts can expand on searches from thousands of pivot points and seamlessly springboard into deep AI-enabled investigations with a simple click.
OSINT Innovation For A Safer WorldThis latest product release from Fivecast showcases the company’s commitment to delivering cutting edge open-source intelligence technology innovations to help their customers enable a safer world, as evidenced by the recent award from the Australian Government Department of Defence for innovation in Science and Technology.
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