If we think about the information that large companies such as Facebook or Amazon handle daily, probably one concept will come to mind: Big Data. With the increase of computational power and the decrease of storage costs, and the recent developments in fields such as cloud computing or the Internet of Things, Big Data […]
The huge digital divide between citizens in different countries is a major issue that is often not given the attention it deserves. How can ICTs improve the lives of the most vulnerable?
Today, more than ever, the world depends on energy. However, we know that much of this energy is produced through environmentally unfriendly processes, so balancing the progressive energy dependence with the care of the planet has become one of the main challenges of the decade. The United Nations recognizes this in its Sustainable Development Goals […]
Technology will be humanity’s main allied when it comes to reducing social inequalities and progressing towards a fairer, cleaner and safer world. Therefore, in this series of articles we take the Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations for 2030 to demonstrate how ICT will be the key to their achievement. In today’s article […]
There are some areas in which the impact of implementing ICT can be more notable, even saving lives in the medium term. eHealth has become one of Gradiant’s priorities, among other things, because of the enormous potential it has and the long way to go.
In the International Women’s Day on 8 March, we want to explain how ICT will facilitate the achievement of SDG number 5: ‘Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls’.
It is well known that the majority of countries and entities in the Western world agreed more than five years ago to join forces against some of the most harmful scourges in the world, in what they called the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Among them, poverty might be the one that is most urgent, and […]
In the series #WeAreCommitment, we’re talking about how the work we do every day at Gradiant contributes directly to reducing poverty and hunger, improving healthcare, creating new jobs, mitigating climate change, improving energy efficiency and making cities and communities sustainable.
Everyone is talking about 5G mobile technology and how they will transform our lives… but how will 5G really affect us? Will it have such an impact on our daily lives?
Florence Nightingale is considered the forerunner of the modern professional nursing and creator of the first conceptual model of this profession.
We are experiencing the rise of a set of methods, algorithms and applications under the label of Artificial Intelligence. But what is artificial intelligence? What does it really consist of? In this post we will try to answer the concepts and bases of AI technology
few years ago, our colleague moved from her hometown of Rio de Janeiro to Braga (Portugal) where she did her doctorate. Helena joined the GRD team in 2012 and a year later she became the director of Gradiant’s eHealth area and she still is.
