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Diagnosing TB using AI and a mobile phone
Diagnosing tuberculosis is cumbersome and not all tests are available in developing countries.  Now a team of scientists has used AI to allow a mobile phone to identify if someone’s cough could be a sign of TB.  Dr Manuja Sharma, from the University of Washington is on the show to tell us how they used machine learning to identify more than 33,000 coughs and tested the tech in a clinic in Kenya.

Payment card to fund cutting edge research
Every time you make a payment with a card you could be funding research into neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Science Card has linked to a number of research projects where you can donate directly or at a point of sale. We hear about the tech behind the card from Daniel Baeriswyl, CEO and Founder of Science Card. We also hear about the tech the card will be funding from Professor Emad Moeendarbary from University College, London. Professor Moeendarbary has created a drug testing platform that mimics human neurons to try and find new treatments that repair the damage to the neurons caused by neurodegenerative diseases.

The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell and the studio expert is Peter Guest. 

More on this week's stories: 

TBscreen: A passive cough classifier for tuberculosis screening with a controlled dataset 

Unlocking the secrets of neurodegenerative diseases 

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Martin Cooper is an engineer, an entrepreneur, and a futurist. Known as the “father of the cell phone,” he invented the world’s first portable cell phone at Motorola and made the first public call in 1973. Over thirty years at Motorola, Cooper and his teams introduced the first nationwide mobile phones and pagers, and numerous other products. He and his wife, Arlene Harris founded over a half dozen companies.

He is chairman of Dyna LLC, serves on the FCC’s Technological Advisory Council and is a member of the National Academy of Engineers, the Marconi Society, and is a Prince of Asturias Laureate. He has been widely published, and created the Law of Spectrum Capacity, known as Cooper’s Law.

Cooper grew up in Chicago and attended the Illinois Institute of Technology. 

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Emer and Julie assess themselves on the seven phone habits of highly effective people; candy floss, pints of stout and the end of the Dear Phone journey (or is it?)

Keep in touch here: https://www.emeroleary.com/dearphone 

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Our two hosts talk packing light, and Georgie gets roasted for (finally) upgrading her phone to a larger form factor.

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00:00 Introduction
02:09 Naked in the Baltic Sea [Leading you]
04:15 Speaking louder with silence [Leading teams]
05:30 Reinventing Nokia since 1865 [Leading organisations]
07:15 Sisu [Word of the week]
08:00 Final step
08:22 Close

THE SUNDAY SCHOLAR takes a lighter look at leadership. Full of ideas, insights and inspiration. It’s our weekly newsletter—reimagined as a podcast. Something to be expected. Something to look forward to.

Matt Rowsell, Chief Product Officer, Merchant Solutions, Nexi Group

It is estimated that some 34.5 million merchants globally will deploy SoftPOS by 2027… a jump of 28.5 million in 5 years. SoftPOS may be seen as the natural evolution of the POS terminal with payment data suggesting that contactless payments now account for 80% of in-store payments. Robin Amlôt of IBS Intelligence debates the advantages and limitations, business cases and barriers to SoftPOS with Matt Rowsell, Chief Product Officer, Merchant Solutions, at Nexi Group.

What would a day without your phone look like? As a phone ban rolls out across several SA schools, thousands of kids will be putting down their phones. But how and why? Anna, Matt, and Tim share their thoughts on the issue of phones in schools, as they also come to realise their own habits may not be ideal. Can they live up to their own challenge?

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In this episode we reveal brand new data on mobile phone usage and how many of us feel our friends and family spend too long on phones when we're with them. There's also chat about woolly mammoths and dodos, plus what if rubber production were to suddenly stop. It's an alarming possibility we might have to prepare for.

Welcome to Nepal Now, the podcast where we explore new ideas and innovations to move the country forward. My name is Marty Logan.

Thank you for joining me today a in my noisy neighbourhood. It feels like it’s construction season in this part of Kathmandu – but on with the show as they say!

Like what seems to  be a growing number of Nepalis, Rumee Singh always had an itch to return home and use her abilities to improve her own country. She went overseas to finish her education and then scored a “cushy” job in the corporate world in New York, but when a year-long stint in Dubai ended, she and her Nepali husband chose to return east instead of west.

The move paid off. Her work has been recognized with an investment from something called the UNICEF Innovation Fund, which puts money into development solutions based on blockchain technology. (Don’t worry – Rumee and I describe blockchain in simple terms in our chat coming up).

Rumee’s innovation, Rahat (‘relief’ in Nepali) is a digital payment system for humanitarian emergencies, such as following natural disasters like flooding. It’s a way to get money, or even goods, to affected people using mobile phones. Rahat’s advantage is that every transaction is tracked and because it uses blockchain, anyone anywhere can go online and see all those dealings — creating a huge barrier to corruption.

It's simple, but also complicated in some ways, explains Rumee. For example, not everyone post-disaster has access to a phone, so those people might actually receive physical cards that they can exchange for money or goods. Another wrinkle is that even people who do have phones don’t always know how to use them — even for simple things like receiving a text message — so Rahat has to do digital literacy sessions in some areas.

But overall, results from early tests have been positive and now Rahat is doing a pilot project with the UNICEF country office here. If all goes well, Rumee thinks that her innovation could succeed beyond Nepal, especially because Rahat is based on blockchain, which is borderless. She encourages her countrywomen and men overseas who are considering a move home to take the plunge. It can be frustrating, she says, but it’s also cheaper to set up a business, the talent pool is deep, and it’s familiar territory.

If you have any thoughts about this episode, or ideas for future ones, let me know. My email is marty@martylogan.net.

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The pandemic caused  IT teams to rethink their focus — from locations to people — and the complexity and sprawl of technology added a new set of challenges for organizations and the partners that support them. 

In this episode, vMOX Vice President Mike Saxby sits down with long-time channel veteran Michael Sterl,  Senior Vice President of Partner Success at Intelisys, to talk about:

• How the pandemic changed the IT ecosystem
• What the future looks like for mobility and IT asset management
• How enterprises are buying today and the shift in disruption models
• Ways the partner community can continue to win and earn customer mindshare Michael's favorite place to fly fish and must-read book recommendation about the power of mindset

Featured Guest: Michael Sterl, Senior Vice President of Partner Success at Intelisys, a ScanSource company,  the nation’s leading technology services provider of business communications services, including voice, data, access, cable, collaboration, wireless and cloud. A respected thought leader and entrepreneur, Michael co-founded Cloud Optik and Carve Digital, two companies focused on delivering world-class data and analytics platforms to channel partners. He also co-founded SimpleSignal, a unified communications service provider that was acquired by Vonage, where he served as Regional Vice President of Channel Sales post-acquisition.

It's Winter here in Australia and we LOVE a little cosy scrolling. Instead of telling you to switch off your tech, we're going to make it a little more "chill-full". We're going to challenge you to strip back to a bare-naked home screen.

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