WASHINGTON: Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organisations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled Sept 23.
Rather than waiting to respond to a famine after many lives already have been lost, the tech firms “will use the predictive power of data to trigger funding” to take action before it becomes a crisis, the World Bank and United Nations announced in a joint statement.
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