It remains to be seen how effective Factmata’s AI solution will be when the company reaches full maturity. Their original technology was developed for the verification of claims about statistics and it is unclear how well it adapts to more qualitative and nuanced statements. Even the most sophisticated NLP techniques are far from the contextual understanding and emotional intelligence used ...

The temptation with any social programme is to use highly targeted, well-evidenced interventions on those with the greatest need. But it is notoriously hard to achieve sustained engagement with disadvantaged families, particularly when targeting comes with a risk of stigmatisation and a sense that things are being done to them as part of a fleeting policy initiative.

Ravi was previously responsible for the International Rescue Committee’s work in designing, testing and scaling products and services for people affected by crisis in over 40 countries - from reducing acute malnutrition and intimate partner violence, …

There has been some progress in identifying more ambitious policies aimed at tackling obesity, for example Obesity Health Alliance’s Turning the Tide on Obesity report and The National Food Strategy.The next step was to prioritise these policies to identify which should be implemented first to meaningfully shift the dial on levels of ill-health caused by obesity.

2022年2月3日 · Ofgem estimates that a ‘medium’ UK home uses 12,000kWh of gas per year, 1,000kWh per month. According to official government figures, burning natural gas generates 183g of CO2 per kWh.This equates to 183kg per month for an average UK boiler, or 2.20 tonnes per year; The International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations Specialized Agency, provides a CO2 calculator for ...

2024年8月28日 · There is good evidence that loneliness causes worse mental health and wellbeing outcomes. The impact on mental health is potentially substantial, for example, people who report feeling lonely are 2.25 times more likely to have been diagnosed with depression compared to those who don’t report feeling lonely.

2023年3月30日 · How a green ratio of 2.5 to 1 would make a heat pump cheaper than a gas boiler over the same lifespan. The chart below takes an example home and demonstrates how the running cost of a heat pump compared to a gas boiler could be affected by different electricity-to-gas price ratios, upfront costs, efficiency or the cost of gas.

2024年1月24日 · Data has a crucial role to play in the delivery of public services and particularly in how we make more effective decisions in the early years.

In 2021, Nesta set out on a new strategy focused on achieving three missions; a healthy life, a fairer start and a sustainable future. Each has a moonshot goal – halving obesity, eliminating the outcome gap between children growing up in disadvantage and the national average; and decarbonising homes.

Nesta’s strategy to 2030 sets out three innovation missions to guide and inform our work across the nations of the UK over the next ten years:. A fairer start: We want every child to have an equal start in life. Our mission is to narrow the outcome gap between children growing up in most and least deprived communities in Scotland.