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Digital technologies are now integral to daily life, and the world’s population has never been more interconnected. Innovation, particularly in the digital sphere, is happening at unprecedented scale. Even so, its application to improve the health of populations remains largely untapped, and there is immense scope for use of digital health solutions. WHO is harnessing the power of digital technologies and health innovation to accelerate global attainment of health and the well-being WHO has three key objectives to promote the adoption and scale-up of digital health and innovation: 1. Translating latest data, research, and evidence into action: this means promoting standards for interoperability and data sharing and supporting implementation of digital solutions that contribute to informed decision making. 2. Enhancing knowledge through scientific communities of practice: enabled by new technologies and no longer limited by the need for physical meetings or hard copy peer review journals, WHO brings together top expert voices around topics of clinical and public health significance. 3. Systematically assessing and linking country needs with supply of innovations: all too often in global health, products are developed with the attitude of “if you build it, they will use it.” This approach has failed time and again. WHO takes a proactive, systematic approach to identify, promote, co-develop, and scale innovations that are based on country needs. The WHO Global Strategy on Dig...

Watch Video: Titanic wreckage site recreated by deep sea research company The story of the “ And now, for the first time, a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic shows a closer look at the world famous wreck that occurred on April 14, 1912. Magellan, a deep sea research company, produced the scan using mapping technology that provided a three-dimensional view of the 882.5-foot-long ship as if the “water has been drained away.” “The hope is that this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the liner,” 3D scan took more than 200 hours, 700,000 images to make The new scan, carried out in the summer of 2022 by Magellan and Atlantic Productions, reveals a complete 360-degree view of the Titanic, including small details like the serial number on one of the propellers. The team used remote controlled submersibles to take more than 700,000 images of the Titanic from every angle to create the 3D reconstruction, The team members spent more than 200 hours surveying the ship, which planning leader Gerhard Seiffert said they weren't allowed to touch. "And the other challenge is that you have to map every square centimeter - even uninteresting parts, like on the debris field you have to map mud, but you need this to fill in between all these interesting objects," he told BBC. The scan gives a glimpse of the radio room, the grand staircase and more. New images of the Titanic Titanic facts: When did it sink? How many people died? The majority of the people killed were members of ...

The vast majority of adults in the United States get Audience The news outlets included in this analysis are those whose primary domain – the outlet’s flagship website – averaged at least 10 million unique visitors per month from October to December of each year analyzed, according to Comscore, a cross-platform audience measurement company. This includes both digital-native news publishers, such as Axios or HuffPost, and so-called “legacy” news organizations (those that originated in print or broadcast) like The New York Times or Fox News that met those traffic levels. There were 97 such outlets in 2020 (for a full list of outlets and collection methods, see the The average fourth quarter, monthly unique visitors for the primary domains of these outlets in 2020 was 32.1 million, an 11% increase over the 29 million visitors those sites received in 2019, according to Comscore data. The average minutes per visit was 1.95, down from 2.13 minutes in 2019. Website traffic and time spent for news outlets • Share on Twitter • Share on Facebook News outlets are also adopting other digital outreach and engagement methods. Nearly all of these outlets offer newsletters (93%) and have an official presence on Flipboard (95%) or Apple News (88%). Three-in-four release podcasts, and 39% allow comments on their articles. These outlets are also highly likely to use social media as part of their outreach. All outlets studied here have an official presence on Facebook and Twitter, while at le...

Digital signage is a huge market – many organizations either have already adopted it or are planning to in the near future. There are lots of studies reporting impressive digital signage statistics about the effectiveness of the medium, and predictions show that the industry is going to keep growing for at least the next few years. One of the major reasons for this growth is the convergence of communications with technology. As people are growing more accustomed to social media and digital interactions via the web, visual communications are becoming more common and more relevant. Also, the more screens available to people, the more points of contact are available for digital messaging. Although retail was the first industry to adopt digital signage, organizations of all types now see the value in a digital medium for both internal and external messaging. Email has become a burden with copious amounts of marketing spam and the sheer volume of internal messages, so savvy business people are finding new ways to capture the attention of both their visitors and their employees. Soon everyone will have some form of digital signage in their facilities – whether it’s public-facing, for internal communications, or both. And there are some excellent reasons to do so. Here are some digital signage statistics that will make a believer out of even the most skeptical person: Digital Signage has Reach and Saturation • 70% of Americans say they’ve have seen a digital display in the past m...

Digital technologies are now integral to daily life, and the world’s population has never been more interconnected. Innovation, particularly in the digital sphere, is happening at unprecedented scale. Even so, its application to improve the health of populations remains largely untapped, and there is immense scope for use of digital health solutions. WHO is harnessing the power of digital technologies and health innovation to accelerate global attainment of health and the well-being WHO has three key objectives to promote the adoption and scale-up of digital health and innovation: 1. Translating latest data, research, and evidence into action: this means promoting standards for interoperability and data sharing and supporting implementation of digital solutions that contribute to informed decision making. 2. Enhancing knowledge through scientific communities of practice: enabled by new technologies and no longer limited by the need for physical meetings or hard copy peer review journals, WHO brings together top expert voices around topics of clinical and public health significance. 3. Systematically assessing and linking country needs with supply of innovations: all too often in global health, products are developed with the attitude of “if you build it, they will use it.” This approach has failed time and again. WHO takes a proactive, systematic approach to identify, promote, co-develop, and scale innovations that are based on country needs. The WHO Global Strategy on Dig...

The vast majority of adults in the United States get Audience The news outlets included in this analysis are those whose primary domain – the outlet’s flagship website – averaged at least 10 million unique visitors per month from October to December of each year analyzed, according to Comscore, a cross-platform audience measurement company. This includes both digital-native news publishers, such as Axios or HuffPost, and so-called “legacy” news organizations (those that originated in print or broadcast) like The New York Times or Fox News that met those traffic levels. There were 97 such outlets in 2020 (for a full list of outlets and collection methods, see the The average fourth quarter, monthly unique visitors for the primary domains of these outlets in 2020 was 32.1 million, an 11% increase over the 29 million visitors those sites received in 2019, according to Comscore data. The average minutes per visit was 1.95, down from 2.13 minutes in 2019. Website traffic and time spent for news outlets • Share on Twitter • Share on Facebook News outlets are also adopting other digital outreach and engagement methods. Nearly all of these outlets offer newsletters (93%) and have an official presence on Flipboard (95%) or Apple News (88%). Three-in-four release podcasts, and 39% allow comments on their articles. These outlets are also highly likely to use social media as part of their outreach. All outlets studied here have an official presence on Facebook and Twitter, while at le...

Digital signage is a huge market – many organizations either have already adopted it or are planning to in the near future. There are lots of studies reporting impressive digital signage statistics about the effectiveness of the medium, and predictions show that the industry is going to keep growing for at least the next few years. One of the major reasons for this growth is the convergence of communications with technology. As people are growing more accustomed to social media and digital interactions via the web, visual communications are becoming more common and more relevant. Also, the more screens available to people, the more points of contact are available for digital messaging. Although retail was the first industry to adopt digital signage, organizations of all types now see the value in a digital medium for both internal and external messaging. Email has become a burden with copious amounts of marketing spam and the sheer volume of internal messages, so savvy business people are finding new ways to capture the attention of both their visitors and their employees. Soon everyone will have some form of digital signage in their facilities – whether it’s public-facing, for internal communications, or both. And there are some excellent reasons to do so. Here are some digital signage statistics that will make a believer out of even the most skeptical person: Digital Signage has Reach and Saturation • 70% of Americans say they’ve have seen a digital display in the past m...

Ariana Triggs, USA TODAY The story of the “ And now, for the first time, a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic shows a closer look at the world famous wreck that occurred on April 14, 1912. Magellan, a deep sea research company, produced the scan using mapping technology that provided a three-dimensional view of the 882.5-foot-long ship as if the “water has been drained away.” “The hope is that this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the liner,” 3D scan took more than 200 hours, 700,000 images to make The new scan, carried out in the summer of 2022 by Magellan and Atlantic Productions, reveals a complete 360-degree view of the Titanic, including small details like the serial number on one of the propellers. The team used remote controlled submersibles to take more than 700,000 images of the Titanic from every angle to create the 3D reconstruction, The team members spent more than 200 hours surveying the ship, which planning leader Gerhard Seiffert said they weren't allowed to touch. "And the other challenge is that you have to map every square centimeter - even uninteresting parts, like on the debris field you have to map mud, but you need this to fill in between all these interesting objects," he told BBC. The scan gives a glimpse of the radio room, the grand staircase and more. New images of the Titanic Titanic facts: When did it sink? How many people died? The majority of the people killed were members of the crew and third-class passengers – with 710 de...

Ariana Triggs, USA TODAY The story of the “ And now, for the first time, a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic shows a closer look at the world famous wreck that occurred on April 14, 1912. Magellan, a deep sea research company, produced the scan using mapping technology that provided a three-dimensional view of the 882.5-foot-long ship as if the “water has been drained away.” “The hope is that this will shed new light on exactly what happened to the liner,” 3D scan took more than 200 hours, 700,000 images to make The new scan, carried out in the summer of 2022 by Magellan and Atlantic Productions, reveals a complete 360-degree view of the Titanic, including small details like the serial number on one of the propellers. The team used remote controlled submersibles to take more than 700,000 images of the Titanic from every angle to create the 3D reconstruction, The team members spent more than 200 hours surveying the ship, which planning leader Gerhard Seiffert said they weren't allowed to touch. "And the other challenge is that you have to map every square centimeter - even uninteresting parts, like on the debris field you have to map mud, but you need this to fill in between all these interesting objects," he told BBC. The scan gives a glimpse of the radio room, the grand staircase and more. New images of the Titanic Titanic facts: When did it sink? How many people died? The majority of the people killed were members of the crew and third-class passengers – with 710 de...

Digital signage is a huge market – many organizations either have already adopted it or are planning to in the near future. There are lots of studies reporting impressive digital signage statistics about the effectiveness of the medium, and predictions show that the industry is going to keep growing for at least the next few years. One of the major reasons for this growth is the convergence of communications with technology. As people are growing more accustomed to social media and digital interactions via the web, visual communications are becoming more common and more relevant. Also, the more screens available to people, the more points of contact are available for digital messaging. Although retail was the first industry to adopt digital signage, organizations of all types now see the value in a digital medium for both internal and external messaging. Email has become a burden with copious amounts of marketing spam and the sheer volume of internal messages, so savvy business people are finding new ways to capture the attention of both their visitors and their employees. Soon everyone will have some form of digital signage in their facilities – whether it’s public-facing, for internal communications, or both. And there are some excellent reasons to do so. Here are some digital signage statistics that will make a believer out of even the most skeptical person: Digital Signage has Reach and Saturation • 70% of Americans say they’ve have seen a digital display in the past m...