Photo of cover of the DDI 2022 annual report

The University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University’s Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) initiative has published its first annual review, highlighting progress across a range of projects, from empowering students to become change agents to revolutionising cancer surgery with robotics. In the academic year 2021-22, £95.6m of DDI-related research income was awarded to the University of Edinburgh and…

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Data-driven innovation can power artificial intelligence (AI) to provide solutions to a range of societal challenges, a DDI webinar heard.   Roy Donaldson, a Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems, told delegates at the event,  The role of data-driven innovation in AI, that asking which business sectors were embracing AI was the wrong question.  He…

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Consumers must be involved in designing financial services if open banking and open finance are going to have a positive impact on social inclusion, a DDI seminar was told. Open Finance, Ethics and Social Inclusion heard that opening up consumers’ data could deliver significant benefits, especially in terms of addressing the challenges of the unbanked…

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