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TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG), part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, has entered into an agreement with Technology Centre Mongstad (TCM) to test its proprietary solvent for capturing CO2 at the amine plant located in Mongstad, Norway. The test campaign will start in May.

The proprietary solvent to be tested is the KS-21TM, an amine-based adsorbent used in the Advanced KM CDR ProcessTM newly developed by MHIENG in collaboration with Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (KEPCO). Its long-term usage will be demonstrated in Norway, one of the worlds most advanced countries with respect to environmental regulations on CO2 capture, in a quest to achieve commercialization within 2021. Compared to the earlier KS-1TM solvent, which has been adopted at 13 commercial plants delivered by MHIENG, KS-21TM has a number of advantageous properties such as lower volatility and greater stability against degradation. The newer solvent is also expected to enable reduced running costs and other economic benefits.

At a time when CO2 capture needs are expanding in the United Kingdom and Europe, the test program at TCM, which has state-of-the-art facilities and specialized knowledge, will confirm KS-21TMs long-term durability and assess its environmental impact, thus providing MHIENG with technological data relating to its significantly higher CO2 capture rate. The test program will enable MHIENG to set a timetable for KS-21TMs commercialization, opening the way for the company to expand orders in the UK and European markets.

Since its establishment in 2012, TCM, equipped with the worlds largest-scale CO2 capture testing facilities, has provided users with profound knowledge, online analysis, and advanced analytical technologies relating to the trace components of gas emissions. Its data accumulated through testing exceed 1,000 categories and contribute significantly to commercialization of absorbents.

On reaching the new agreement with TCM, Kenji Terasawa, MHIENG President & CEO commented: MHI Group today is strengthening its efforts in the energy transition field, to help realize a carbon neutral world on a global scale. For many years, MHIENG has strived to minimize CO2 emissions from gas emissions, utilizing its cutting-edge technologies. Today we possess reliable and economically feasible carbon capture technologies supported by more than three decades of research and development activity and a robust track record of commercial plants around the world. TCMs abundant knowledge and experience in environmental impact assessment, and its state-of-the-art testing environment, will raise the level of our CO2 capture technologies further, enabling us to accelerate business expansion in the vital UK and European markets. We expect the new testing program will contribute to realizing carbon neutrality in the years ahead.

Ernst Petter Axelsen, CEO at TCM, also welcomed the new collaboration. Its very satisfying that a leading capture technology developer like MHIENG has chosen TCM as the arena for their carbon capture tests. Our staff is ready to ensure effective execution of the tests, and to provide expert advice throughout the campaign.

About KM CDR Process

MHI Group together with Kansai Electric Power Co, Inc. (KEPCO) started the development of the Kansai Mitsubishi Carbon Dioxide Recovery KM CDR Process, a post-combustion carbon capture technology, in 1990. As of February 2021, MHIENG has delivered a total of 13 commercial plants with the KM CDR Process, making it a global leader in carbon capture technology deployment. Two more plants are currently under construction.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PtnuRWOQAY&t=1s

TCM offers unique test facilities

TCMs test facilities for CO2 capture consist of an amine plant, a chilled ammonia plant, as well as an area for new, groundbreaking modular capture technologies. Both the amine and the chilled ammonia plants capture CO2 by means of a chemical liquid known as a solvent, consisting of a mix of water and either amine- or ammonia-based solutions. Starting in 2021, the site for modular technologies will be used for testing technologies such as membranes and adsorbents (solid materials that bind CO2).

TCM uses two different industrial live flue gas sources (fluidized catalytic cracker and combined cycle gas turbine) from Equinors refinery at Mongstad, with different content of CO2.

The amine plant is a unit with generic capabilities developed to serve as a demonstrator for solvent-based capture technologies. The unit has so far been utilized by five technology developers in addition to scientific testing using non-proprietary solvents (monoethanolamine and CESAR 1) for helping developments in the global carbon capture community.

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March 4, 2021

Montclair State professor will develop digital toolkit to support young peoples advocacy campaigns for racial justice education in public schools

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Assistant Professor Tara L. Conley of Montclair State Universitys School of Communication and Media has been awarded the prestigious Race and Technology Fellowship by Stanford Universitys Digital Civil Society Lab and Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

Conley, a transmedia storytelling professor, is one of 14 scholars to receive the 2021 fellowship, which is awarded to exceptional social sector leaders around the world working on ideas to benefit civil society.

Her project will serve as a catalyst for change in Americas K-12 schools. Conley will work with students around the country to create Ruby a digital toolkit for youth activists and advocates of color to support civic campaigns that push for comprehensive and accurate Black and ethnic studies curricula in public schools nationwide.

Named for Ruby Bridges, the first African-American child in United States history to integrate a white elementary school in the South, the idea for the project was born during interviews Conley conducted with students specifically, the Okolo sisters, Nene (19) and Ekene (16) from San Diegos Poway Unified School District in the spring of 2020.

When I was researching and interviewing the Okolo sisters last year, I was inspired by their passion and tech-savvy approaches to engage the community and force school change at the local level, says Conley. I quickly learned they were among a growing group of young activists of color across the United States currently taking up the fight for equitable and accurate representation in school curricula.

The goal of Ruby is to address the challenges young activists currently confront as they develop digital advocacy campaigns. Ruby will address this challenge by providing interactive tools and resources that young activists like the Okolo sisters can use, distribute, and build off of to support their efforts for educational reforms in their local school districts.

These young people are in the midst of what I believe to be a paradigm shift in public school education across the U.S., says Conley. But they are also up against powerful institutional forces that are violently resistant to change, especially now, as the former administration worked to condemn educators, journalists and scholars who confront Americas so-called exceptional history.

Tara L. Conley is an interdisciplinary Black feminist scholar, media-maker and writer. Her scholarship centers Black life in the study and exploration of place, media histories and technoculture.

In 2013, she founded Hashtag Feminism to locate and archive feminist discourse by way of tracking Twitter hashtags on the web. In 2015, she produced a short documentary, Brackish, about life in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Most recently, her reporting and creative nonfiction essays have appeared in Bloomberg, ZORA magazine, Parents magazine, Courier Newsroom, and in the anthology Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest. She is also the founder of Media Make Change, a media company that specializes in social justice storytelling through media production, strategic communications, curriculum development and research.

Im really excited about the potential impact of this project, says Conley. I have an amazing group of folks supporting me at Stanford, as well as the opportunity to help build a network of youth activists across the country. Ruby is coming at a moment when theres a strong desire from both the institution and community to make a difference. Im just really grateful to be part of this work while the stars are aligning.

Learn more about Tara Conleys scholarship and multimedia projects by visiting http://www.taralconley.org and http://www.mediamakechange.org.

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NEW HARTFORD, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE:PAR) today announced that it will report its fourth quarter financial results on Monday, March 15, 2021. The results are scheduled to be released at 4:00 p.m. ET, followed by an investor presentation and conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET.

PAR Technology President and Chief Executive Officer Savneet Singh, Chief Financial Officer Bryan Menar and VP for Business Development, Christopher Byrnes will provide a business update and address questions from call participants.

To participate in the call, please call 844-419-5412, approximately 10 minutes in advance. No passcode is required to participate in the live call. Individual & Institutional Investors will have the opportunity to listen to the conference call/event over the internet by visiting the investor page on PARs website at http://www.partech.com/about-us/investors/. Alternatively, listeners may access an archived version of the presentation call after 7:30 p.m. on March 15 through March 22, 2021 by dialing 855-859-2056 and using conference ID 2996764.

PAR Technology looks forward to your participation in this conference call. Please call Tiffani Temple at 315-738-0600 x 6325 with any questions.

About PAR Technology Corporation.

PAR Technology Corporation through its wholly owned subsidiary ParTech, Inc., is a customer success-driven, global restaurant and retail technology company with over 100,000 restaurants in more than 110 countries using its point of sale hardware and software. ParTechs Brink POS integration ecosystem enables quick service, fast casual, table service, and cloud restaurants to improve their operational efficiency by combining its cloud-based POS software with the worlds leading restaurant technology platforms. PAR Technologys Government segment is a leader in providing computer-based system design, engineering and technical services to the Department of Defense and various federal agencies PAR Technologys stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol PAR. For more information, visit http://www.partech.com or connect with PAR Technology on Facebook or Twitter.

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Skeleton Technologies, Estonia-based manufacturer of graphene-enhanced supercapacitors, and Marubeni Corporation, one of Japans largest conglomerates, have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to support commercial scale-up and customer acquisition for Skeletons supercapacitors in the Asian automotive sector, with a strong focus on electrified vehicles and hydrogen transportation.

As part of this agreement, Marubeni Corporation also made an equity investment on top of the 41.3 million Series D financing round announced by Skeleton in November 2020. The sum of Marubenis investment was not disclosed.

The cooperation will primarily focus on the SuperBattery product line, which has 15-second charging capability and hundreds of thousands of deep charge/discharge cycles. In addition, Skeleton Technologies and Marubeni Corporation also aim to cooperate on new applications for curved graphene, Skeletons patented material enabling the companys technological and competitive advantages.

Enabling carbon-neutral electrification is a key priority for Marubeni Corporation. Skeleton Technologies fits perfectly in our portfolio as they fill the gap for high-power, extremely long high-cycles, and efficient energy storage devices, said Masayuki Omoto, COO of Next Generation Business Development Division of Marubeni Corporation.

According to Omoto, Skeleton has validated its competitive advantage in real-life applications and has shown strong commercial traction. We are delighted to back Skeleton because we see that, besides their technological advantage, they are going after scale as evidenced by their participation in the 3 billion European Battery Innovation project alongside companies such as Tesla and BMW, Omoto noted.

Skeleton Technologies is currently investing in technology development and scaling up a new product line for the automotive sector. The cooperation with Marubeni covers Asia, excluding China and India, and will offer new resources to commercialize Skeletons graphene-based SuperBattery. This new energy storage solution is the ideal complementary technology for lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen fuel cells, improving overall system efficiency and performance.

Our cooperation [with Marubeni] will drive the Asian automotive markets adoption of our technology in the near future as the cost down will be much faster than for lithium-ion batteries, stated Taavi Madiberk, CEO and co-founder of Skeleton Technologies.

While having a strong focus on the expanding electrified and hydrogen-based transportation market, Skeleton and Marubeni will also cooperate on new applications of Skeletons patented curved graphene material, the key enabling technology behind Skeletons supercapacitors performance advantage.

We have been cooperating with Marubeni for many years in introducing Estonian tech companies for investment purposes, noted Kaspar Kork, Director of Estonian Investment Agency, which helped to land the Japanese investment in Estonia. This is an extremely important investment for the Estonian CleanTech sector, which will open up the Asian market to Skeleton. Skeleton is a good example of how the combination of business experience and science creates synergy in Estonia, leading a company started as a spin-off and its unique product to the world market, Kork added.

Skeleton works with some of the largest companies in the world from leading Tier One automotive firms and industrial equipment OEMs to truck fleet operators and aerospace prime contractors to decrease CO2 emissions and fuel consumption, to improve power quality and protect equipment and infrastructure from power peaks, and to power electrification to fight climate change.

Skeleton Technologies Group has three main locations: its manufacturing in Grorhrsdorf, Saxony, Germany, materials development in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Saxony-Anhalt and electrical engineering in Tallinn, Estonia. From its foundation in 2009, the company has grown from 4 to more than 140 people.

We established Marubeni Corporation Tallinn Office in 2019 to find investment and collaboration opportunities in Estonia. Estonia has one of the densest startup ecosystems around the world with many unique valued technology companies and supportive enablers like Estonian Investment Agency. We believe this strategic cooperation with Skeleton will be a good case of collaboration between Estonian companies and us, adding value through the cooperation, said Takao Fukuoka, General Manager of Marubeni Corporation Tallinn Office.

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HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bare Cove Technology (BCT) is pleased to announce that Nine Masts Capital has successfully migrated to Bare Cove Technologys fully managed, cloud-hosted IT services platform. In addition to cloud hosting and IT support, Nine Masts has engaged BCT on an ongoing basis to provide CTO consultancy, cyber security advisory, and software development services.

Nine Masts believes investment in technology is key to staying competitive and furthering our growth strategy. BCTs commitment to innovation, cloud-based collaboration, and strategic technology decision-making made them the obvious path forward, said Alain Bordoni, Head of the Non-Investment Team at Nine Masts Capital. The BCT team managed our complex migration with calm professionalism and reliability. They continue to impress us with their commitment to high-quality engineering and support, continued Bordoni.

We are honoured Nine Masts Capital trusts us as their primary technology partner, said Emily Randall, Chief Executive Officer of Bare Cove Technology. We look forward to helping them drive their innovative technology strategy forward.

About Bare Cove Technology

Bare Cove Technology (BCT) is an award-winning IT and cybersecurity solutions provider. Our team is made up of proven leaders in the fields of cybersecurity, software development, cloud technologies, and IT infrastructure and design. Based in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia, BCT supports the top asset managers in the Asia Pacific region, helping our clients meet the evolving expectations of institutional investors and global regulators.

To learn more about Bare Cove Technology, contact info@barecovetech.com or visit https://www.barecovetech.com.

About Nine Masts Capital Management

Launched in May 2010, Nine Masts Capital Management deploys market neutral, relative value related strategies with a focus on the Asia Pacific region through liquid trading activities predominantly across equity, credit and volatility asset classes.

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DUBLIN, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The "In-Cabin 3D Sensing Technology Market Analysis - Edition 2021" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This report on In-cabin 3D Sensing Technology and Market Analysis is an outcome of our unparallel research database on automotive 3D sensing industry and ~800 interviews in last 2 years with leading brands in the automotive industry.

The report analyzes the market penetration of in-cabin 3D sensing system for level 2 cars and expected market penetration for level 3 and above vehicles. The report also analyzes all the different methods for analyzing the driver behavior and gesture recognition for infotainment system - structured light technique and TOF technique.

With this research, we aim to bring a fact-based evaluation of the 3D sensing in in-cabin system and help you create your next go-to market strategy to position yourself as a key player in this swiftly evolving landscape.

The report focuses on 5 major aspects of the market:

This study In-cabin 3D Sensing Technology includes:

The report answers to majority of stakeholders in the in-cabin 3D sensing ecosystem:

Key Topics Covered:

1. List of Companies Researched

2. Research Scope Research Methodology

3. Market Outlook and Forecast3.1. Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Vehicle Sales in 20203.2. Demand Expected to Normalise Post 20213.3. Total Addressable Market for In-Cabin Sensing Technology3.4. In-Cabin Sensing Equipped Vehicles Demand by Levels of Autonomy3.5. In-Cabin Sensing Systems Shipments by Regional Markets3.6. In-Cabin Sensing Technology Tam Value and Forecast

4. Market Growth Drivers

5. In-Cabin Sensing Systems and Their Applications

6. In-Cabin Sensing Technologies6.1. Nir Camera Sensing for In-Cabin Monitoring6.2. Radar Sensing for In-Cabin Monitoring

7. Industry Overview7.1. DMS And/Or OMS Applications by Oems (Existing and Planned)7.2. DMS And/Or OMS Solution Developers7.3. OEM Partnership With DMS Suppliers7.4. Tier 1 Partnership With DMS Suppliers

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If your business operations game plan doesnt include provisions for battling todays COVID-19 pandemic and fast-tracking security and safety technology that will enable staff and clients to safely enter your facility, while enforcing all current virus protocols, think again. Over this past year, there has been a paradigm shift in the landscape of security technology and how it is being deployed. Smart organizations are migrating their short-term technology solution into long-term strategies.Courtesy of BigStock.com

According to a recent Memoori report, the physical security businesshas not suffered as severely as many others, partly because its products and services have been able to contribute to controlling the pandemic in buildings and the growing demand for delivering Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) and Access Control as a Service (ACaaS). COVID-19 has driven growth in building wellness systems as building operators are now in the process ofinstalling a variety of productsin preparation to meet the new standards for opening up their facilities.

As both security technology solution providers and their end-user clients grapple for answers to meet current and future challenges, Security Technology Executive editorial director Steve Lasky discussed these issues with three major players in the industry that include Rick Focke, the Director of Product Management for Enterprise Access Control Security Products and Building Technologies & Solutions at Tyco/Software House; Ryan Hulse, the Director of Product Management for Exacq and Kantech Security Products and Building Technologies & Solutions; and James Wagner, Leader Security Technology, Risk and Compliance at Deloitte Services LLP.

Rick Focke -- End-users are thinking about how they can get their employees back to work quickly, in the safest way possible and how can they maintain social distancing and meet all of the other protocols that are being put into place. Our end-users are also asking us for advice regarding touchless technologies that they can deploy, to help reduce the spread of the contagion. And, they have also started worrying about the effects of having a mostly vacant facility will they see an increase in vandalism or theft, or cyber-attacks? How should they change their approach to make sure they dont see an increase? Many of our end-users are also concerned that capital projects for security are now being delayed or even canceled, which forces them to adjust their long-term planning.

Ryan Hulse -- Issues around equality of law enforcement have intersected physical security with facial recognition technology. In early 2020 it was critiques of accuracy with dark skin tones. In early 2021 it is helping identify attackers at the U.S. Capital. These two extremes of negative and positive press illustrate why its possible to lose sleep trying to understand if such a technology is a boon or bane to an organization. Nobody wants the headline of the negative press. This is an area where JCI is busy behind the scenes working with outside experts and industry partners to work towards transparency and standards that ensure proper use of the technology and educating on the distinctions of frictionless access control and general surveillance applications.

James Wagner -- At Deloitte, we are rather blessed with a true enterprise system with redundancies at each crossroad. However, with mask mandates, we had an immediate impact on facial recognition for access control. Accuracy and speed were key to the program and of course we did not want our colleagues without masks. We believe this will be a challenge moving forward as we look for a workable solution for higher-end security solutions.

Focke -- Our process has not changed during the pandemic, but it has become quicker and more agile. It starts with our customers engaging with them to determine what problems they are experiencing, and to discuss possible solutions. We have an ongoing, active advisory council approach to customer feedback, which is combined with other ideas from customer meetings, integrators, and internally from tech support teams and applications groups. We work together to develop solutions in the quickest time possible, and we make sure what we come up with passes from a risk and cyber perspective. Finally, our marketing department makes sure that we communicate frequently and effectively our new technologies and innovations quickly and in as many ways as possible.

Hulse -- I think this is one area where a manufacturer like Johnson Controls has advantages to a customer looking to minimize their risk. Weve seen some products go to market very quickly to capitalize on fear and uncertainty, but were now asking did the manufacturer develop a full solution that allowed integrators to deploy effectively? Was the integrator equipped to deploy in a way that meets accepted standards? Johnson Controls, as a manufacturer also working in a number of areas like fire detection and suppression, is experienced working through compliance, risk, and security challenges to bring safe, effective solutions to market.

Wagner -- Deloitte has had a great pandemic team to review business and regulatory requirements across the landscape. From risk, doctors (internal and external), operations, and down to physical security, we have an outstanding team to review the level of policy and procedure which in some cases includes new products. The most interesting piece in a regulatory sense is what we found of most importance was the ability to report across the landscape. Thanks to the ability of our Software House CCURE 9000 system, at an enterprise level, we have shown our clients the ability to report access in correspondence to health declarations as well as ensuring occupancy levels are kept at a safe level.

Focke -- Integrated access control and video systems have been around for many years, but the pandemic has forced end users to take a second look at their systems and demand more how can I get more actionable intelligence out of the system I have? How can I optimize it, to reduce unnecessary alarms while elevating critical alarms and conditions? How can I use the combined information flow from video and access control to determine exact area-by-area usage patterns and distancing trends? We are starting to see more of a need for a holistic view of the complete building or facility, including cybersecurity no more silos of information. And a closer marriage of access control and video information is key to providing that view.

Hulse -- Video surveillance has always been the knowledge multiplier to any physical security system. It informs human decisions. The emergence of AI-based video analytics, to recognize faces or behaviors of persons, creates a force multiplier that lessens the need for staff to have eyes on every inch of floor space. Any time you build interconnected systems you also have to consider cybersecurity implications at integration points. Access control and video surveillance systems that integrate natively and are manufactured by companies with strong cybersecurity programs can provide the best guard against cyber risks.

Wagner -- Theres one key point missing from this question. Integration must include monitoring both physically and logically as well. Integrated solutions with redundancy are the only way to ensure we are providing 24/7 answers as incidents arise and provide a more safe and secure workplace even in a limited capacity. Deloitte Security relies heavily on its cybersecurity colleagues as well to ensure the most secure products to access is at the highest levels. My final and keywords here are redundancy and working together with cybersecurity. In our program, this was key to our success and ensuring we didnt miss a step in the home office turnaround.

Focke -- COVID has forced a reckoning on the physical security industry; it has compelled us to take a completely different view of what specific benefits our solutions provide to our customers. Customers are no longer happy just with access control basics they are demanding more information, and in a faster manner. They are demanding more proactive versus reactive information tell me when a door lock will probably fail in the future, versus telling me that it has already failed. They are demanding solutions that go beyond a traditional system, with closer integration to business and health monitoring, visitor and building management systems, and real estate/property technology platforms. And this lays the groundwork for an increased acceptance of true Open Standards in our industry, to facilitate this increasing information flow.

Hulse -- COVID has shifted the definition of a protected space to include the health of a space. We now think about the behaviors of people in the space in new ways like their distance from each other, what areas theyve touched, and the density of the people in the space. This expanded definition of a protected space is changing the trajectory of physical security, the question is to what degree. I would predict that even past the COVID pandemic, the security industry will shift toward spaces that are as touch-free as possible for occupants, and AI video analytics will continue to evolve recognition of behaviors to develop an understanding of spaces aggregate hygiene.

Wagner -- In some ways we have the pieces to meet those market demands but theres always room for improvement. Integrated solutions, again with live monitoring, places a key role in that success for a business. The cheapest product with free storage has to be highlighted for its potential cyber issues. Just read the terms and conditions of most of those products as Ive pointed out to some of my friends. Touchless, quality and innovation which includes multiple-use products will be key. A quality camera that can provide the security view with mask, motion, heat, and other capabilities in one unit and report anomalies is one example. Now can we wall mount it and potentially have an intercom and reader all in one? Ill let the smart people figure that one out. I have to repeat this due to its importance. The ability to change controls on the fly and report on the regulatory items is highly important for all businesses. Without this later item you may have some very smart pieces that might as well be seaweed if you cant report on how well they work.

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Access to Technology Gives Students a Voice

Reflecting the CoSN2021 theme of Brave and Bold, Shelton opened his discussion with the poemInvitation to Brave Spaceby Mickey ScottBey Jones: Together we will createbrave space, the poem begins, eventually concluding with, It willbe our brave space together, and We will work on it side by side.

Shelton stressed the importance of being simultaneously brave and bold to navigate the separation caused by remote learning and inequity. I do not believe it is possible to have a truly equitable learning environment without technology, Shelton said. Technology, and equitable access to it, he explained, allow students to thrive in education instead of merely survive.

Speaking on the importance of these values, Shelton posed the question, How do we use [technology] to ensure everyone has a voice, and everyone is heard? Without technology, he continued, students can only access one perspective: the voice in their textbook.

Shelton explained how, without technology access, textbooks and curricula often prove antiquated and whitewashed. Pulling from personal experience, Shelton recalled getting a low grade on a U.S. history paper he wrote on the Tuskegee Airmen, for which he interviewed primary sources from his family because his teachers curriculum hadnt included military segregation.

In creating a platform where all voices can be heard, its important to use restorative policies instead of punitive measures for student behavior, Shelton said. He discussed what he calls the five elements of critical pedagogy: humility, love, faith, hope and critical thinking. When educators can maintain these five outlooks, he explained, they create a more equitable learning environment for students.

Culture is a far greater indicator of the pathway to student success than anything else, Shelton observed, emphasizing that students need to be seen, heard and loved in their learning environments. This, he continued, can be especially difficult in the age of hybrid learning, where students and educators struggle with inaccessible devices, connectivity issues and other aspects of the digital divide. However, he said, technology can also help schools dismantle the barriers to equity in the first place.

EdTech is covering CoSN2021, so keepthis pagebookmarked for our ongoing coverage. Follow@EdTech_K12on Twitter for live updates and join the conversation using#CoSN2021.

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Tech executives from around the country met online last week during the annual Beyond the Beltway event to get a market forecast from industry experts about the IT spending challenges and opportunities facing state and local governments in 2021.

One of the challenges at the forefront of the discussion was the impact of COVID-19 and how the pandemic contributed to state and local budget shortfalls last year. Despite these challenges, data shared during the event by the Center for Digital Government* suggests that an increase in IT spending is likely to occur over the course of the next few months.

The most likely scenario is a 7 percent growth in IT spending, topping out at $118.7 billion, Joe Morris, e.Republics vice president of research said.

Based on these figures, Morris broke down specific IT spending projections for different verticals within the state and local government market.

The worst of the financial impacts have been felt by economies heavily supported by tourism, hospitality and low-income earners, Morris said. If your revenue is primarily coming through sales tax, hospitality or tourism, you could be looking toward a much longer road to recovery.

However, funding for education and public health has grown exponentially due to federal relief funds.

Since March 2020, states and localities have received over $360 billion in federal funds via several relief packages, including the CARES Actand the Families First Coronavirus Response Act.

Other federal relief packages, such as the $1.9 trillionAmerican Rescue Planthat is currently being reviewed by the Senate, could provide another $350 million in federal funding to state and local governments.

But what does all of this mean for government IT?

For state government CIOs, the pandemic has put a spotlight on IT priorities like cybersecurity, budget and cost control, citizen experience, cloud computing and infrastructure modernization, governance, broadband connectivity and process automation, according to Morris.

Whereas county CIOs have shifted their IT priorities to include the hiring and retaining of IT personnel, business intelligence and analytics, disaster recovery and continuity of operations, e-services, and so on.

As for what to expect moving forward, Morris said, We expect the worst of the economic climate to hit local government over the next two years, probably over the next 18 to 36 months.

The silver lining, he said, is that it gives local government officials a little bit more time to plan and prepare, whereas state governments are bouncing back a little bit quicker.

*The Center for Digital Government is part of e.Republic, Government Technology's parent company.

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DENVER, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Laurinda Pang, president, global customer success at Lumen Technologies (NYSE: LUMN), will present at the Morgan Stanley 2021 Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on March. 4. The presentation is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. ET.

Webcast information for the investor presentation can be found on Lumen's Investor Relations website athttps://ir.lumen.com/events-and-presentations.

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Lumen is guided by our belief that humanity is at its best when technology advances the way we live and work. With approximately 450,000 route fiber miles and serving customers in more than 60 countries, we deliver the fastest, most secure platform for applications and data to help businesses, government and communities deliver amazing experiences.

Learn more about the Lumen network, edge cloud, security, communication and collaboration solutions and our purpose to further human progress through technology at news.lumen.com, LinkedIn: /lumentechnologies, Twitter: @lumentechco, Facebook: /lumentechnologies, Instagram: @lumentechnologies and YouTube: /lumentechnologies. Lumen and Lumen Technologies are registered trademarks of Lumen Technologies LLC in the United States. Lumen Technologies LLC is a wholly-owned affiliate of Lumen Technologies Inc.

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