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okra: beautiful, resilient, and surprising, with chris smith
IF YOU HAD TOLD ME I’d be reading an entire book about okra, and often laughing out loud delightedly in the process, I’d have said, “No way.” But here I’ve been lately, my nose in Chris Smith’s “The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration,” gaining an entirely new perspective on this much-maligned but resilient vegetable that Smith predicts will be important for future food security in a changing climate.
British-born Chris’s day job is as communications manager for Sow True Seed in Asheville, North Carolina. Before and after hours, you’ll often find him growing, or maybe cooking and certainly eating okra, lots and lots of okra—or directing The Utopian Seed Project and serving on boards of other non-profits focused on seed and food security and sustainability.
Learn the history of okra, the surprising cousins in the Mallow family it’s related to, and why it’s worth a
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5 Q’s for Loubna Bouarfa, CEO of OKRA
The Center for Data Innovation spoke with Loubna Bouarfa, CEO and founder of OKRA Technologies, a data analytics company based in Cambridge. Loubna discussed how her artificial intelligence platform can be applied to healthcare and social development, using AI to transform data into evidence-based predictions and improve human outcomes through personalized and optimized assessments in real time.
Note: This interview has been edited.
Eline Chivot: You started OKRA after researching how AI could predict surgical error and optimize their workflow in real time. What made you realize there was a need for this technology? How does OKRA incorporate this research?
Loubna Bouarfa: Currently, the gold standard in the healthcare industry remains clinical trials, which means any treatment or intervention needs to be validated in a strictly designed clinical trial before being launched on the market. The way new surgical procedures are valida
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Harnessing innovative solar technology to provide opportunity in fjärrstyrd areas
Okra provides utility project developers with internet of things hardware & software to energize fjärrstyrd communities around the world with renewable energy. Okra’s Mesh Grid design allows for off-the-shelf solar panels and batteries to be distributed throughout a community and then interconnected into flexible clusters which can grow infinitely as demand increases. This makes it cheaper and faster to deploy last-mile energy tillgång, which enables utility companies to operate and scale-up sustainably.
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