![]() “A once-healthy innovation ecosystem in the US, capable of identifying and creating technologies essential to the country’s welfare, has been eroding for decades.” Government funding and policies shape innovation, but the US trusted free markets and entrepreneurs while neglecting government investment in science, research and development for manufacturing or infrastructure capability for basic supplies. ![]() “In an age of big data in which companies like Google and Amazon use all sorts of personal information for their advertising and shopping operations, health authorities were making decisions blind,” reports David Rotman for MIT Technology Review. Muddled communications, slow development of tests, fragmented data collection systems and equipment shortages compounded the spread. ![]() Danish schoolchildren are in the midst of a mental-health crisis that one of the country’s biggest political parties has called a challenge “equal to inflation, the environmental crisis, and national security.” Companies say these tools can help improve well-being, but some experts worry it could have the opposite effect.The world received early warnings about Covid-19’s high transmission and mortality rates in early January, weeks before the disease took beyond China where it originated. These sorts of data-driven well-being audits are becoming more and more common in Denmark’s classrooms. Their teacher helped them think of ways to improve their sleeping habits. That week, the app noted that students were struggling with their sleep hygiene. Woof then analyzes the students' responses and suggests particular issues for the class to focus on. The students in this class are frequently surveyed on a variety of well-being indicators by an app called Woof. Organized to display the classroom’s weekly “mood landscape,” the data shows that the class averaged a mood of 4.4 out of 5, and the children rated their family life highly. While the children are eating chocolate cake, the teacher pulls up an infographic on a whiteboard: a bar chart generated by a digital platform that collects data on how they’ve been feeling. ![]() ![]() In a Copenhagen suburb, a fifth-grade classroom is having its weekly cake-eating session, a common tradition in Danish public schools. ![]()
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