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Tennessee State University, Nashville Predators kickoff '$1 Million in 1 Month' campaign with 'TSU Night' at Bridgestone Arena
February 2, 2020 Lucas Johnson
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University's Aristocrat of Bands drumline and New Direction Gospel Choir headlined "TSU Night" at Bridgestone Arena on Saturday. The event kicked off a historic, long-term partnership between the university and the Nashville Predators to raise $1 million during Black History Month for student scholarships, and more.
TSU President Glenda Glover talks about campaign in interview before Predators' game. (Submitted photo)
"This is an exciting night for TSU," said TSU President Glenda Glover in a live broadcast before the Predators' game against the Vegas Golden Knights. "This is a time to raise $1 million in one month for our students, our need-based students, our merit-based students. These are amazing students with promising careers, and we need to do our best to help them graduate and go on to make the best contributions to society."
The choir performed the national anthem, and the drumline entertained Predators' fans before the game and throughout it.
TSU New Direction Gospel Choir performs national anthem at Predators's game Saturday night. (Submitted photo)
Fan Kenny Scribner said he saw the Aristocrat of Bands perform at football games and was looking forward to seeing the drumline. He also thinks the partnership between TSU and the Predators is a good idea.
"Anytime you help the students it's a good deal," Scribner said.
TSU and the Predators announced their partnership on Thursday. The Predators organization made the first donation to the campaign, as well as an additional $100,000 of in-kind assets to help spread awareness to the initiative.
TSU's Aristocrat of Bands drumlins performs outside Bridgestone Arena. (Submitted photo)
Money raised from the campaign will provide both merit-based and need-based scholarships for TSU students. Approximately 500 scholarships will be awarded to students in an average amount of $2,000. About 90 percent of TSU students receive some form of financial aid.
The university and the Predators will also work together on providing internships.
"With the help of the most passionate fan base in all of sports and the Nashville Predators organization, we are proud to partner with Tennessee State University on this life-changing education initiative," Predators President and CEO Sean Henry said Thursday. "When you combine two great things – the education of the next generation with our passionate fan base, we know that strong goals seem to be more achievable, and that's what we are hoping to do with this campaign."
Nashville Predators promote ways to contribute to campaign. (Submitted photo)
Also Saturday night was the Big Blue Old School Concert hosted by TSU Student Affairs. Portions of the proceeds will go toward the fundraising campaign.
A month of campaign activities includes the TSU Alumni Chapter Challenge Feb. 1-7; Faculty/Staff Challenge Feb. 8-14; TSU Divine Nine Fraternity and Sorority Challenge Feb. 15-21; TSU Sunday Day of Giving on Feb. 23; and TSU Colleges Challenge Feb. 22-29.
To donate, visit http://www.tnstate.edu/1million1month or text TSU1MIL to 41444.
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TSU Receives 11 Nominations For 2019 HBCU Digest Awards
June 18, 2019 Lucas Johnson
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – Tennessee State University is a finalist in 11 categories of the 2019 Historically Black Colleges and Universities' Digest Awards.
The winners will be announced at the ninth annual HBCU Awards ceremony to be held on August 2 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture in downtown Baltimore.
TSU is a finalist for University of the Year, and TSU President Glenda Glover is in the running for Female President of the Year.
Other TSU nominations are:
Best Marching Band: Aristocrat of Bands
Best HBCU Choir: New Direction Choir
Best Fine Arts Program: Department of Music
Best Science, Technology, Engineer and Mathematics (STEM) Program: College of Engineering
Best Business Program: Executive MBA Program
Alumna of the Year: Traci Otey Blunt
Female Coach of the Year: Chandra Cheeseborough-Guice
Male Athlete of the Year: Christion Abercrombie
Male Student of the Year: Jailen Leavell
The HBCU Awards is the first and only national awards ceremony honoring individual and institutional achievement at historically black colleges and universities throughout the country. Winners are selected by a panel of previous winners, journalist, HBCU executives, students and alumni for the merit of accomplishment and for generating positive coverage for HBCU campus communities.
Last year, Tennessee State University received awards for "Best Student Organization" and "Alumnus of the Year."
The year before that, TSU's Aristocrat of Bands and the university's College of Engineering received top honors in the HBCU Digest Awards.
In 2015, TSU's women's basketball team got Female Team of the Year, and student activities received Best Student Organization.
To see all the 2019 HBCU Awards finalists, visit: https://bit.ly/31JbrRF
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Tennessee State University's World-Renowned New Direction Choir to Be Featured Guest on BET's 'Sunday Best'
May 9, 2019 Emmanuel Freeman
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – They have performed for the Pope, and have been called the best college choir in the nation, but if you think you have seen the best of the TSU New Direction Choir, think again.
New Direction Choir Director Justin Butler, right, leads the group during taping of of their upcoming appearance on BET's Sunday Best. (Submitted Photo)
The world-renowned choir has been selected to appear as featured performer on BET's hit show "Sunday Best," a reality television gospel music singing competition series.
The choir will appear in an episode of the show which airs this fall. They will perform gospel hits selected by the show's producers. On May 9, the group spent the day taping their upcoming performance in the Tyler Perry Studio in Atlanta.
"We are just excited and grateful," said Justin Butler, director of New Direction, who called the invitation a "total surprise and a wild moment."
He said one of the producers of Sunday Best (Torrance Glenn) "called us out of the blue" and said he had been following New Direction for a long time, and when he needed a choir to perform behind the contestants, the TSU group "instantly" came to mind.
The choir performs at one of its many concerts during the European tour. (submitted Photo)
"It was a wild moment. We didn't know we had impacted someone all the way in New York," Butler said. "He just said, 'I need you all as guest performers for this episode and I need you here' by this time. He said he felt we would be the best to perform on the show behind the contestants."
Kedrick Noel, a junior music education major from Memphis, is president of New Direction Choir. He said he got the call from Butler about the opportunity to appear on BET.
"It is just amazing. We are beyond grateful and blessed to have this opportunity to perform on BET Sunday Best," Noel said. "It was just a blessing how everything worked out. The school was one hundred percent behind us, the choir was one hundred percent behind us."
Last winter, New Direction spent 31 days touring and performing in different cities across Europe. The group held 24 concerts, including an appearance in the Vatican, where they met and performed for the Pope.
Concert goers cheer on the TSU New Direction Choir during a performance on the group's recent European tour. (Submitted Photo)
"That was another wild moment," said Butler. "The people were so excited to see us. They treated us like we were rock stars. The red carpet was laid out for us everywhere we went."
In 2015, New Direction was voted the "Nation's Best Gospel Choir " with a $15,000 prize, when they took their final bow at the National College Choir Explosion in Louisville, Kentucky.
"It was overwhelming to see our students come out and work so hard," primary group advisor Deborah Chisom, said at the time. "Even though I was not on stage with them, seeing them so excited was just very fulfilling."
For more information on the TSU New Direction Gospel Choir, go to http://tnstatenewsroom.com/archives/tag/new-direction-choir
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TSU Gospel Group Called "Best" in the Nation, Wins National College Choir Explosion
March 18, 2015 Emmanuel Freeman
New Direction Choir Director Justin Butler, left, primary advisor Deborah Chisom, and choir president Kendric Dartis receive the $15,000 first-place prize as the Nation's Best Gospel Choir, at the National College Choir Explosion.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) –
Hands-down, the Tennessee State University New Direction Choir is the best college gospel group in the country.
The group has proven this time and again, and Saturday, March 7, was no different when they took their final bow at the National College Choir Explosion in Louisville, Kentucky.
Competing as one of eight finalists from among several college gospel choirs, the TSU New Direction Choir came out on top winning the coveted title as the Nation's Best Gospel Choir, with a $15,000 prize.
The group also won the People's Choice Award as the audience's favorite group, which earned them another $1,000 prize.
"It was an overwhelming experience knowing that we were national champions not just because the judges voted us number one, but because the audience also felt we were the best," said tenor Kendric Dartis, a senior Healthcare Administration and Planning major, who is president of the choir. "Seeing the joy and jubilation on everyone's face, especially the freshman members who had never experienced something like this before, was just very heartwarming."
This was the group's third straight finish as champions and runners-up in national competitions in the last four years. In 2011 they won first place in the Fourth Annual National Black Collegiate Alumni Hall of Fame Gospel Choir Competition in Atlanta, competing against four HBCU choirs. Two years later in 2013, the group came slightly short in the final round, winning Regional Runner-Up title in the Verizon's How Sweet the Sound Gospel Choir Competition, also in Atlanta.
"Winning the National College Choir Explosion was especially exciting, because we wanted to come out and redeem ourselves after falling short the year before," Dartis said.
Primary group advisor Deborah Chisom, a TSU alum and director of Graduate Admissions, said, "It was overwhelming to see students come out and work so hard. Even though I was not on stage with them, seeing them so excited was just very fulfilling. "
In addition to vocal presentation, participating choirs were judged on diction, intonation, tone quality, appearance, stage presence and audience appeal.
Judges included four-time Grammy Award-winning singer and musician Martha Munizzi; President and CEO of Bridgeman Foods Inc., Ulysses L. Bridgeman Jr.; talk show host and motivational speaker Carla Young; and gospel recording artist Byron Cage.
A large group of TSU alumni, students, staff and friends were in attendance to cheer on the New Direction Choir as they took the stage as finalists at the National College Choir Explosion in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 7.
According to group members, the New Direction Choir, under the direction of TSU graduate Justin Butler, owes it success to the "overwhelming" support from TSU alumni, students, administrators and friends. During every competition, they said, a "dedicated" group of alumni, traveling on what they call the "Blue Bus," follows and cheers them on wherever they are performing.
"Alumni support made a big difference," said Tammy Taylor, group advisor and grants specialist in the Title III office, who also handles photo and videography for the group. "Our students had a level of support that was not visible with the other groups during the competition. I think that made a big difference with our group, and it lifted the extra burden of knowing they had an audience that was squarely behind them."
Team support, with the new addition of the Reverend Frank Stevenson, assistant dean for Off-Campus Services in the Division of Student Activities, as an advisor to the New Direction Choir, is also a major factor in the group's success, they said.
"President (Glenda) Glover has been very supportive; we could not have made it this far without her support and that of Executive Vice President Jane Jackson," said Chisom. "Special thanks to the Student Government Association and Dr. Michael Freeman (vice president for Student Affairs) for not just their moral support, but also their financial support to the group."
New Direction Choir has participated in concerts across the country. They have also appeared on the nationally televised Bobby Jones Gospel as featured guests. Additionally, the more than 45-member group has traveled many places taking what they have learned in vocal techniques and from Tennessee State University to share with others across the nation.
Other finalists that competed against New Direction were choirs from the University of Louisville, Middle Tennessee State University, Kentucky State University, North Carolina Central University, Virginia State University, the University of Kentucky and Mississippi State University.
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University Choir Belts it Out in Singing Competition
October 23, 2013 Emmanuel Freeman
The New Direction performs at the How Sweet the Sound Verizon Experience, a regional competition as part of nationwide search for the best gospel choir. The group from TSU was the first HBCU choir to ever take part in the competition, and only the third university choir selected in the competition's six years. (courtesy photo)
New Direction Choir takes on community and church choirs in regional competition
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TSU News Service) – The New Direction Choir from Tennessee State University took center stage Oct. 8 in Atlanta to compete against five other choirs to see who would walk away with bragging rights as the best gospel troupe in the region.
TSU's choir took part in "How Sweet the Sound," a nationwide search for the best gospel choir in the country. The New Direction Choir was the first HBCU choir to ever take part in the competition, and only the third university choir selected in the competition's six years.
Competing against larger church and community choirs, New Direction captured the 1st Runner-Up award in the regional division.
"Hundreds of choirs applied for the competition, but only the very best were selected to take part," said Deborah Chisom, director of Graduate Admission and the choir's primary advisor. "The students were literally jumping for joy when they heard the good news. This was an opportunity to take our performance to another level."
The choir submitted a video performance to the selection committee in early summer and found out in August that they were one of six choirs picked for the regionals in Atlanta. The choir had only a month to prepare, and, according to Chisom, the choir was given a list of approved songs that were cleared for the competition. They then had to select five songs from the list to sing, with the competition committee selecting the song they would eventually perform.
"It was very intense preparing for the competition," added Chisom. "The other choirs we were competing against were larger and had more singing time together."
None of that mattered when the choir took to the stage. Under the direction of TSU alumnus, Justin Butler, the 35-member choir belted out a creative rendition of the late Olanda Draper's "My Soul Does Magnify The Lord." The choir was judged on the creativity of the arrangement, their uniform, diction, choreography and audience participation.
Out of the six choirs performing, TSU captured the second spot and a $5,000 award. They also won the right to compete in the finale in Los Angeles if the winning choir is unable to make it or drops out.
"It is competitions like this that put TSU and the New Direction Choir on the map," said Chisom. "We had numerous alumni from the Atlanta area watch the performance and they told us they had no idea that the University had such a wonderful and talented choir."
"How Sweet the Sound," which is sponsored by Verizon, is now in its sixth year of traversing the country for its best gospel choirs. This year's competition launched in New Orleans Sept. 27, with stops in Dallas, Baltimore, New York, Chicago, and Detroit. Following the Atlanta show, the contest culminates with the finals in Los Angeles Nov. 2 where winners from each city compete for a $25,000 grand prize and a chance to record with eOne Music.
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Investors who had hoped President Donald Trump would unveil new initiatives to sustain the economic expansion did not find any in his 2019 State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Most of Trump's address consisted of a recitation of what he called his administration's accomplishments, including a "massive tax cut for working families," a doubled child tax credit, and having "virtually ended" the estate tax. Trump also touted his economic record, notably low unemployment, including January's 304,000 jump in payrolls. And he cited job gains by women.
In his State of the Union address a year earlier, Trump boasted that "the stock market has smashed one record after another." But this time there was no mention of the market, which had been his favorite barometer when the major indexes were moving steadily higher.
S&P 500 futures were virtually unchanged Tuesday evening following the State of the Union.
Trump also reiterated his other economic priorities, notably the current talks to secure a trade deal with China to stave off a hike in tariffs, from 10% to 25%, on $250 billion of Chinese goods. And Trump put in a pitch for Congress to approve the USMCA, the revised trade deal he has hailed as a replacement for Nafta.
But there was no mention of the size of an infrastructure program or how to pay for it. Also omitted was anything about the federal debt or deficit, while Treasury borrowing is running at a $1 trillion annual pace and the need for another debt-ceiling increase looms.
Trump also touched on another area with bipartisan support: containing prescription-drug prices. He touted the elimination of the Obamacare individual mandate penalties, even while voicing support for protecting patients with pre-existing conditions. A Democratic campaign focused in large part on protecting health-care coverage helped propel the party's gains in last year's House races.
Much of the president's address was taken up by his key building project: a border wall. His demand for funding to build it remains the point of contention in reaching a deal to prevent another government shutdown when the current funding measure expires Feb. 15.
There was at least some degree of comity present in the House chamber when Trump took note of the record number of women in the newly elected Congress, which elicited chants of "USA" from both sides of the aisle. Don't expect an outbreak of bipartisanship, though. Trump appeared to be girding for a fight with the Democratic-controlled House and warned of its consequences.
"An economic miracle is taking place in the United States—and the only thing that can stop it are foolish wars, politics, or ridiculous partisan investigations," Trump declared, to groans from Democrats in the chamber.
Even if a compromise over the border can be crafted, the outlook for further legislation is cloudy at best this year. After that, the 2020 election campaign will be in full swing. Meanwhile, the prospects for investigations are fairly certain.


The body of a man missing since Tuesday was discovered in sand dunes in Holon on Saturday evening, and police have launched a murder investigation. A Tel Aviv Police spokeswoman said the man, who could not be identified by press time, had been shot dead. He was found by police near his moped four days after his mother reported him missing. "This is definitely criminally related," the spokeswoman added, adding that Tel Aviv Police's Central Unit was directing the probe. The spokeswoman refused to address media reports that the victim had been involved in a scuffle at a Tel Aviv nightclub over a woman, or that he had been killed as part of a turf war between crime organizations who live off protection rackets. "These are all speculations," the spokeswoman said.


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NBA Redraftables Reevaluations: The Big Brandon Roy What-If
The best, worst, and Knicksiest moves from the 2006 draft class
By Matt Dollinger Jun 16, 2020, 8:57am EDT
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Draft season is here, even if the NBA season isn't, so we're taking a look back at some of the most interesting lotteries of the past 24 years. On the Book of Basketball 2.0 feed, Bill Simmons and a rotating cast are redrafting every pick 1-13/14, starting with 1996. Here, we're going deep on what actually did happen by choosing the best, worst, and Knicksiest move of each class with the gift of hindsight, and also looking at how the numbers would re-rank the lottery board today. (For reference, here's how the 2006 draft played out.)
The Redraftables
Best Move
Kyle Lowry to the Grizzlies, no. 24
If it seems like Lowry has played his entire NBA career with a chip on his shoulder, you can probably blame the 2006 draft. That night, Lowry was the ninth guard, second Villanova star, and 24th player overall to hear his name called. That's a slight that undoubtedly didn't sit well with the temperamental floor general—and it appears he took it out on the rest of the league. Fourteen years later, he's arguably the best player to emerge from his class.
Viewed as undersized and not explosive enough out of college, Lowry has gone on to become a six-time All-Star and was the heart of the title-winning Raptors. Unfortunately, the team that drafted him never reaped any of those benefits. The Grizzlies elected to groom a young Mike Conley Jr. as their point guard of the future instead (not exactly a bad call), and traded Lowry after two and a half seasons to the Rockets. After breaking out in Houston, Lowry butted heads with coach Kevin McHale and was dumped to the Raptors in 2012 in one of the decade's most regrettable deals.
Lowry blossomed into an All-NBA talent in Toronto. He's fourth among 2006 picks in total minutes and points, second in assists and win shares, and fifth in rebounds despite standing at just 6-foot. And he etched his name into history by helping the Raptors win their first title in franchise history, closing out the Warriors in Game 6 of the 2019 Finals with 26 points (including four 3-pointers), 10 assists, seven rebounds, and three steals in the decisive win.
Lowry gets the nod over LaMarcus Aldridge, a five-time All-NBA and seven-time All-Star selection, because of the value he produced at such a low draft slot. While Aldridge leads the class in points, rebounds, and win shares, you expect that type of production from the second overall pick. Aldridge's teams have also only advanced past the second round of the playoffs once. While the big man might be the superior talent, Lowry was undoubtedly the best pick.
Worst Move
Adam Morrison to the Bobcats, no. 3
Andrea Bargnani took a lot of crap from Raptors and Knicks fans (and probably a lot of other fans too), but he was not a legendarily bad no. 1 pick. He made All-Rookie first team, played 10 productive seasons, and averaged 14.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. Was he miscast as Italian Dirk Nowitzki? Sure. But he was a pretty useful, albeit flawed, player (he averaged a career-best 21.6 PPG in 2010-11) who might have even turned into an All-Star in the right situation.
The same cannot be said for Morrison, who went two picks later and proceeded to flame out of the league faster than you can say "Gonzaga." After leading the country in scoring his final year in college, Morrison's stock was at an all-time high entering the draft, leading new Bobcats president Michael Jordan to use his first major pick on the sweet-shooting forward. (Needless to say, Crying Jordan was not deterred by Crying Morrison.)
Morrison got every opportunity his rookie season, playing in 78 games but averaging only 11.8 points in 29.8 minutes per game. Worst of all, he shot only 37.6 percent from the field—his supposed strength somehow turned into a weakness—while being routinely exploited on the other end. After losing his starting job and ending the season on a disappointing note, a torn ACL forced Morrison to miss the entirety of the following season. By then, he had fallen out of favor with Jordan, who shipped him to the Lakers for Vladimir Radmanovic. Morrison would appear in only 39 games over two seasons in L.A., but he did collect two championship rings along the way in 2009 and 2010.
They would end up being his NBA parting gift. Morrison never played in the NBA again. Although he would have cups of coffee with three different summer league teams, they never turned into a contract. Jordan's pick of Morrison—with the likes of Brandon Roy or Rudy Gay still on the board—will go down in infamy and be held up as an example that college success doesn't necessarily translate to the NBA.
Most Underrated
Paul Millsap to the Jazz, no. 47
You would think that in 2006, just two years after Karl Malone played in the league, a power forward coming out of Louisiana Tech who averaged 18.6 points and led the country in rebounding for three straight seasons might garner a little more attention. Then again, when has anyone ever paid Millsap the respect he deserves? Being drafted behind James Augustine, Lior Eliyahu, and Alexander Johnson is perfectly on-brand for a player who is understated, often overlooked, and ridiculously productive.
In 14 seasons and with three different teams (Jazz, Hawks, Nuggets), Millsap has accumulated the third-most minutes, points, and assists in his draft class and the second-most rebounds. He's a four-time All-Star, making it each year from 2014 to 2017, and was voted to the NBA All-Defensive second team in 2016. Even at age 35, he's still a critical piece for a contending team, providing a reliable presence on both ends of the floor in Denver. He's a rugged rebounder, tenacious defender, and surprisingly skilled offensive player, torching teams with both his back-to-the-basket and his off-the-dribble game. He's also stunningly efficient, shooting 49.1 percent over his career on 13.2 attempts per game. And in recent years, he's expanded his game beyond the 3-point line, evolving from a floor spacer to a force. This season, he's taking 3.7 3s per 36 minutes and shooting 44 percent. In a redraft, Millsap wouldn't slip outside the top three.
Best What-If
What If Brandon Roy's Knees Hadn't Betrayed Him?
Part of me wonders how differently things would have played out if the Raptors drafted Aldridge no. 1 instead of Bargnani. Toronto already had a walking 20-10 guy in Chris Bosh, but the two big men might have been versatile enough to coexist and team up to be a force in the East. If Aldridge and Bosh made a few deep runs in the East playoffs, would the latter have left for South Beach in 2012? And if he didn't, would LeBron have those two championships in Miami? See, this one has some legs.
But every time I look back at the 2006 draft class, I can't help but feel bummed out about what could have happened with Brandon Roy. The Blazers guard was the sixth pick that year, which is the same number of seasons he would play before a degenerative knee condition forced him to retire for good. Roy was the Rookie of the Year in 2007 and made the All-Star team the following three seasons (and two All-NBA appearances to boot). An electric combo guard with a lethal arsenal of moves, a knack for getting to the rim, and an outside shot that burned opponents, Roy was one of the league's most fun players to watch. He was also one of its most clutch, leading to some awesome highlights:
But Roy's knees robbed him of realizing his potential. After myriad issues, he underwent arthroscopic surgery on both knees, and the degenerative arthritis later diagnosed withered him down to the bone and forced him to call it a career.
If Roy had stayed healthy, he would have paired with Aldridge to give the Trail Blazers a formidable one-two punch for years to come. Portland won at least 48 games and made the playoffs in each of Roy's three final healthy seasons. And if we really want to lean into the what-if, imagine what Portland would have looked like if it had still (somehow) drafted Damian Lillard in 2012 and joined a backcourt with mid-prime Roy? Two of the league's best guards and an All-NBA big man would have been quite the nucleus. It's another cruel twist for a fan base that's also had to stomach Greg Oden and Sam Bowie.
How the Knicks Screwed Up
Entering the 2006 draft, the Knicks had Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford, Steve Francis, and Nate Robinson under contract. Unless David Stern was going to add a second basketball to the court for the 2007-08 season, the last thing this organization needed was another point guard.
So does that soften the blow of Knicks president Isiah Thomas taking Renaldo Balkman, a little-known small forward out of South Carolina, at no. 20 ahead of two potential Hall of Fame point guards in Rajon Rondo (no. 21) and Kyle Lowry (no. 24)? No, of course not. Does it make matters worse that Thomas then took another point guard in Mardy Collins at no. 29? Yes, it does! And does it sting even more that Rondo and Lowry eventually helped teams win championships and Balkman became known as the guy who choked his own teammate in the Philippines and Collins finished with the fewest win shares (-1.6) of anyone in the entire 2006 draft class? YEP.
In-Hindsight Draft Board
Using a mix of two all-encompassing statistics—Basketball-Reference's win shares and FiveThirtyEight's RAPTOR wins above replacement—we calculated the peak and career value for each player drafted (and undrafted) since 1996. (Peak value comprised the top five seasons of a player's career.) Then, for each class, we ranked the players in three ways: by peak value, by career value, and by an ultimate blend of the two, using baseball's JAWS model as an example. The first chart shows the top 14 players according to these rankings, while the second looks at the lottery picks that didn't make the cut. An important caveat is that all of these rankings address regular-season performance only; feel free to mentally adjust placements based on playoff exploits.
The New Lottery Order
Career Rank
Peak Rank
Blended Rank
Kyle Lowry 24 1 1 1
LaMarcus Aldridge 2 2 2 2
Paul Millsap 47 3 4 3
Rajon Rondo 21 4 3 4
J.J. Redick 11 6 6 5
Rudy Gay 8 5 7 6
Brandon Roy 6 8 5 7
Thabo Sefolosha 13 7 10 8
Ronnie Brewer 14 10 8 9
P.J. Tucker 35 9 9 10
C.J. Watson Undrafted 12 11 11
J.J. Barea Undrafted 11 13 12
Randy Foye 7 13 12 13
Daniel Gibson 42 14 14 14
The Lotto Picks Left Behind
Andrea Bargnani 1 20 19 20
Adam Morrison 3 75 75 75
Tyrus Thomas 4 18 17 18
Shelden Williams 5 22 25 25
Patrick O'Bryant 9 46 46 46
Mouhamed Sene 10 49 49 49
Hilton Armstrong 12 40 34 36
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Parliamentary elections were held in Cameroon on 22 July 2007, with voting in some districts re-run on 30 September. Local elections were held on the same day, with seats on 363 town councils at stake. The result was a victory for the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (RDPC), which won 153 of the 180 seats in the National Assembly, whilst the main opposition party, the Social Democratic Front (SDF), won 16 seats.

Campaign
A total of 1,274 candidates stood for the 180 seats in the National Assembly, with 41 parties participating in the elections. In the local elections, 24,820 candidates contested the 6,514 available positions. The RDPC was the only party to have candidates in all districts.

During the campaign, there were claims that the RDPC was given disproportionate airtime on television and radio; Jean-Jacques Ekindi, the President of the opposition Progressive Movement (MP), complained that the MP received only six seconds of airtime on television per day, giving it a total of one minute and 24 seconds for the whole campaign. According to Ekindi, this represented discrimination against small parties and was illegal. On 18 July 2007, the MP formalized an alliance with the Cameroonian Democratic Union (UDC); as part of this agreement, the parties decided not to run candidates in the same constituencies.

Conduct
On 17 July, John Fru Ndi, the leader of the opposition SDF, which suffered from divisions in the years preceding the election, claimed that the preparations for the elections were plagued with irregularities, including poor distribution of voter registration cards (with some people receiving multiple cards and others receiving no cards) and the redrawing of electoral districts even though census results had not been published. Fru Ndi said that the election would not be transparent and blamed President Paul Biya for this; he said the ruling RDPC wanted a two-thirds parliamentary majority so that the constitution could be changed in order to allow Biya to run for president again in 2011. The SDF participated in the election, with 103 candidates from the party seeking seats; according to Fru Ndi, a boycott would be useless.

Voter turnout in the election was reportedly low, with one estimate placing turnout in Douala at about 20%, although the Minister of Territorial Administration, Marafa Hamidou Yaya, said late on the day of the election that turnout was "very honorable" across the country. He also said that the election had gone smoothly and without major incidents. Others, however, said that there were irregularities, including widespread cases of people being allowed to vote with only voter registration cards and not identity cards as well. The opposition denounced the election as fraudulent, with Fru Ndi labelling it a "sham"; it alleged that ballot papers were withheld from some people, that the indelible ink could be washed off, and that one town in the north did not receive ballot papers. There were also opposition allegations that some people were enabled to vote for the RDPC in place of other voters.

In addition to the SDF, the UDC also alleged fraud, and the SDF and the UDC announced that they would appeal in every district where they were defeated. Another opposition party, the Alliance of Democratic Forces (AFP), said that it would not appeal because it considered the legal system so corrupt that it would be useless to do so.

President Biya, voting in Yaoundé, said that he expected "a comfortable majority, which will enable me to build and modernise the country." He said that campaigning occurred "in a calm, serene and peaceful atmosphere", and expressed his hope that this atmosphere would remain and that people would accept the results.

Results
Following the announcement of the results, 103 appeals were filed with the Supreme Court by a number of parties; most requested the annulment of results in certain districts, although some sought only a neutral recount. The UNDP filed the most appeals, with 33, while the SDF filed 30, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC) filed six, and the RDPC filed four. Fru Ndi said on 2 August that the entire elections should be annulled due to fraud, claiming that if the election had been "free and transparent", the SDF would have won a majority in both the parliamentary and municipal elections.

On 10 August, final results were announced by the Supreme Court. The RDPC won 140 seats, the SDF won 14 seats, the UNDP and the UDC won four seats each, and the Progressive Movement won one seat. The Supreme Court annulled the election in five districts, leaving 17 seats vacant until new elections are held there. Of the 163 deputies elected, there were 23 women, 14% of the total.

Partial re-run
On 29 August it was announced that the elections in the five electoral districts where the results were cancelled—Wouri-East, Mayo-Tsanaga-North, Nyong and Kellé, Mungo South, and Haut-Nkam—would be held on 30 September. Campaigning for the partial election began on 15 September.

Provisional results showed the RDPC winning 13 of the 17 vacant seats, with the SDF winning two and the UNDP winning two. The RDPC won majorities in three of the five districts at stake, Haut-Nkam, Moungo-South, and Nyong-and-Kellé, taking all three of the available seats in each of those districts. In Wouri-East, the SDF won a plurality, with the RDPC close behind, and the two parties each took two of the four available seats there. In Mayo-Tsanaga-North, the RPDC won a plurality, with the UNDP close behind, and the two parties each took two of the four available seats there. The SDF disputed these results, with Fru Ndi claiming that it had actually won six seats: he said that it had won a majority (over 52%) in Wouri-East, giving it all four of those seats, and that it had also won one additional seat in Haut-Nkam and another additional seat in Mayo-Tsanaga-North.

On 10 October the Supreme Court ruled that six appeals regarding the partial election were inadmissible, and rejected two other appeals. It confirmed the final results of the partial election on 15 October, giving the RDPC 13 seats (and a new total of 153), the SDF and UNDP won two seats each, giving them 16 and six seats respectively.

Local elections
In the local elections for the 363 town councils, provisional results from the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization showed the RDPC winning control of 310 councils, the SDF winning 21, the UNDP 13, the UDC eight, the MDR five, the UPC three, and the National Alliance for Democracy and the People (ANDP) one. The RDPC was said to have won all of the councils in  Yaoundé and five of the six councils in Douala; the SDF was credited with winning the remaining council in Douala, the 4th district. 216 requests for annulment regarding the local elections were filed with the Supreme Court.

Along with the five districts where the parliamentary election was cancelled, the municipal elections in Lobo were also re-run on 30 September, and in early September the Supreme Court cancelled the municipal results in a further nine electoral districts (Bana, Bafang, Bafoussam III, Kekem, Peté, Matom, Messondo, Mokolo, and Douala V), with new elections there also planned for the same date. In Lobo, the RDPC won the 30 September vote overwhelmingly, with nearly 90%, according to provisional results.

Aftermath
On 14 August Biya expressed a desire for opposition parties to participate in the government. Two days later Fru Ndi said that the SDF would only join the government if it would follow certain policies: decentralization and federalism, greater priority to the social sector, the establishment of an independent electoral commission, the reduction of taxes to encourage investment, and the improvement of living standards. The SDF did not join the government in the cabinet reshuffle on September 7.

The newly elected National Assembly held its first session on 21 August. Although 17 seats were still vacant, only a two-thirds majority was necessary for the National Assembly to meet. On the same day, a joint statement of the American, British, and Dutch embassies criticized the election due to irregularities and urged the creation of an independent electoral commission. Cavaye Yeguie Djibril was re-elected as President of the National Assembly on August 31.

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IndiVillage named Impact Sourcing Champion in IAOP's Global Index
Social enterprise was named as a 'Company to Watch' based on its contribution to community outreach in India
Bangalore, 17th August, 2020: IndiVillage, a sustainable social enterprise powering cutting edge solutions for some of the world's leading companies, has been named in a global index of leaders in impact sourcing. The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' (IAOP) Impact Sourcing Champions Index, a list created in partnership with Global Mentorship Initiative (GMI), features organisations that have used impact sourcing to make a profound contribution to disadvantaged communities with limited prospects.
IndiVillage, which was founded ten years ago, offers high-quality image and data annotation, natural language processing and content optimization for some of the world's leading Technology & Ecommerce companies including Amazon, Appen, Alegion and Mercato. The company provides stable and lucrative jobs to over 300 people in rural India with profits reinvested in the community to further education, healthcare, and access to clean drinking water. IndiVillage featured in the index further to an online submission, which was reviewed by IAOP's CSR and Social Impact Committee.
Recognising this distinction as acknowledgement of IndiVillage's substantial impact, CEO Smita Malipatil said, "I am immensely proud of every single employee at IndiVillage and the work we do. India is a vast and fragmented country bursting with potential, but it is also affected by staggering income inequality often exacerbated by the gap between its rural and urban regions. This recognition from IAOP validates our 'Business for Good' mission which we are looking to scale significantly across the country. By enabling people from some of the remotest parts of the country to work with global leaders on their technology offerings, we have proven that community development and commercial growth can go hand in hand. I wholeheartedly believe that our model will be a catalyst for change and inspire several other organisations to follow suit."
The philosophy of impact sourcing ensures that companies can combine commerce, corporate responsibility, and commitment to communities. By furthering progressive employment in rural areas, IndiVillage has impacted over 35,000 people annually and continues to expand at a rapid pace, marking the company as a worthy inclusion and one set for greater honours.
"Doing well by doing good is now more important than ever. Ensuring that disadvantaged populations have access to formal employment and decent work, allowing them to improve their conditions, acquire a career, and thus lift themselves, their families, and their communities out of poverty are the most suitable means to economic growth. I am proud of the work undertaken by IndiVillage and the other organisations who've made it to IAOP's Impact Sourcing Champions Index," said IAOP CEO Debi Hamill.
About IndiVillage
IndiVillage offers cutting edge solutions including image and data annotation, natural language processing and content optimization for some of the world's leading Technology & Ecommerce companies including Amazon, Appen, Alegion and Mercato. It follows a "profit-for-all" model, reinvesting profits into the rural communities where its employees live. The company's services are delivered out of offices in Yemmiganur, AP, and Raichur, Karnataka in South India. Over the last decade, IndiVillage has impacted over 35,000 lives through sustainable community development initiatives such as access to clean drinking water, improved livelihoods, better healthcare, and standardized education. IndiVillage is among a select set of six Indian companies that have obtained the B Corp certification, which signals that the organization's operations and business model meet the highest global standards of verified performance on social and environmental dimensions.
About IAOP
IAOP is the global association that brings together customers, providers, and advisors in a collaborative, knowledge-based environment that promotes professional and organizational development, recognition, certification, and excellence to improve business service models and outcomes. IAOP connects you and your organization to our growing global community and to the resources you need to be successful. For more information, visit www.IAOP.org .
About the Impact Sourcing Champions Index in partnership with the Global Mentorship Initiative
This is IAOP's inaugural list of companies that have distinguished themselves as trailblazers in Impact Sourcing. To be included in the index, companies submitted an online application, which was then reviewed by IAOP's Social Impact Committee. The index is showcased on IAOP's website, in PULSE Magazine and in the October 2020 "Change the World" issue of FORTUNE Magazine®.
Inkers Announces Partnership with IndiVillage In Bid to Transform Road Safety
Bangalore, 21 September 2020: Inkers, a Bengaluru-based startup backed by Sachin and Binny Bansal among other investors, has signed a deal with IndiVillage to deliver a cutting-edge road safety solution for a leading global automobile player. The partnership will see IndiVillage provide data analytics support to Inkers' breakthrough machine vision offering for the automotive industry.
Inkers was founded by Rohan Shravan and Manish Giri, IIT Kharagpur alumni and tech enthusiasts, to deliver intelligent video analytics solutions like visual workflow automation, object detection, tracking, and facial recognition. At the heart of its business is InkVision – an AI operating system delivering metadata for all camera-recognised images including faces and objects, provided through boxed and turnkey solutions. The company's value proposition has quickly caught the attention of the industry, earning it no fewer than 45 clients including industry leaders such as Airbus, Zeiss, Nvidia, Levi's, Britannia and Landmark Group.
The partnership with IndiVillage will help Inkers deliver a breakthrough solution for an automobile giant with safety at the forefront of its business. The implementation will use thermal imaging in all of the manufacturer's vehicles to detect any driver impairments by measuring changes in their blood sugar up to 30% in addition to 28 other potential diseases. Additionally, the project includes a video solution for facial recognition designed to highlight any structural anomalies. Already in use extensively in healthcare, the use of thermal imaging in consumer automobiles is a landmark industry event and could signal a new era in automobile safety.
Best-in-class data analytics are crucial to the implementation, making it imperative to find a robust analytics partner. Speaking about the importance of the partnership, Rohan Shravan, Founder at Inkers Technology, said, "Our goal was to transform the problems of visual perception using industry-leading AI and ML. Our solutions help companies make sense of what machines are seeing so they can deliver powerful, efficient, and safe solutions at scale. This automotive project could have an impact on millions of lives, and we are committed to excellence at every step of execution. IndiVillage's strong technical capabilities mean that they are great at helping us analyse thermal data sets. The company is also extremely proactive and offers outstanding quality, which allows us to focus on creating machine vision modules of the future. The fact that they combine this capability with doing business for good is the icing on the cake."
IndiVillage's offers services such as image and data annotation, natural language processing, and content optimisation to Technology and e-commerce companies. The company's 'Business for Good' philosophy means that the company hires all employees from an otherwise marginalised rural populace and reinvests all profits within the community to further education, healthcare, and access to clean drinking water.
Commenting on the partnership with Inkers, IndiVillage CEO, Smita Malipatil said, "We have always maintained that profits, purpose, and impact go hand in hand. Working with a startup like Inkers, backed by investors like Sachin and Binny Bansal, is a shot in the arm for our operations, and validates the quality of our services and solution. We firmly believe that Inkers will transform machine vision, globally, and are proud to partner with them in this journey."
IndiVillage was recently named in The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) Impact Sourcing Champions Index of global leaders in impact sourcing, which features organisations that have used impact sourcing to make a profound contribution to disadvantaged communities with limited prospects.
IndiVillage is also the first Indian ITeS company to be certified as a B-Corp organization, one that combines purpose and profit with distinction. Certified B Corporations are legally mandated to factor in a broader ecosystem, including employees, clients, suppliers, the community, and the environment in all decision-making processes.
About Inkers – TO BE RECEIVED FROM Inkers
IndiVillage offers cutting edge solutions, including image and data annotation, natural language processing, and content optimization for some of the world's leading technology and e-commerce companies including Amazon, Appen, Alegion, Swiggy, and Mercato. It follows a "profit-for-all" model, reinvesting profits into the rural communities where its employees live. Over the last decade, IndiVillage has impacted over 35,000 lives through sustainable community development initiatives such as access to clean drinking water, improved livelihoods, better healthcare, and standardized education. IndiVillage is among a select set of five Indian companies that have obtained the B Corp certification, which signals that the organization's operations and business model meet the highest global standards of verified performance on social and environmental dimensions.
IndiVillage was recently named as a 'Company to Watch' by The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' (IAOP) in their Impact Sourcing Champions Index. The index features organisations that have used impact sourcing to make a profound contribution to disadvantaged communities with limited prospects.
Brian Carvalho
IndiVillage
brian@indivillage.com
Swiggy partners with IndiVillage for data annotation exercise to accelerate its AI-first vision
Bangalore, 10 Sep 2020: Swiggy, India's leading on-demand delivery platform, has partnered with IndiVillage to power solutioning and service delivery for the platform's broader AI and ML charter. IndiVillage's engagement with Swiggy, which began in April this year, includes voice annotation work that provides training data for Swiggy's ML algorithms.
IndiVillage is a BPO and social enterprise using impact sourcing to bring opportunity to rural India and offers cutting-edge solutions in the area of image and data annotation, natural language processing, and content optimization to technology and e-commerce companies.
An essential application of the speech data annotation undertaken by IndiVillage is the development of AI-driven speech recognition models for Swiggy's call centre process. When call centre service executives move from one call to another, there is a need to efficiently extract information from the call data to understand the 'voice of the customers' to enable a deeper understanding of the issues faced by customers and accordingly solve for the same. The process requires labelled data, and IndiVillage supports Swiggy in this regard by annotating dozens of hours of speech data, an exercise made even more complicated due to India's linguistic diversity, featuring calls in Hindi, English, and 'Hinglish'. IndiVillage's accurate and comprehensive service allowed Swiggy to establish a proof of concept for speech recognition – a development that has the potential to scale the partnership between the two companies.
"As a tech-first organization, our vision is to deliver unparalleled convenience to our consumers, and this is a continuously evolving process. Considering the volume of transactions on the platform, we take an AI-led approach to deliver operations at scale. With tens of thousands of delivery partners serving millions of consumers across the country, the complexity is high, and AI becomes the game-changer. Partnering with firms like IndiVillage accelerates some of our key innovation efforts and the journey so far has been impactful. The team genuinely understands the problem statement in-depth, and customizes processes tuned to meet Swiggy's unique needs" says Hemant Misra, VP & Head of Applied Research, Swiggy.
IndiVillage embraces a purpose-first 'Business for Good' model that has seen the company reinvest profits within the community to further education, healthcare, and access to clean drinking water. IndiVillage's business model pivots around a workforce of 300+ hired from within the rural communities in which its centres operate. The company's employees are then taught a wide range of tasks such as data entry, online cataloguing, content management, transcription, image tagging, and content tagging that support innovation in large businesses.
"We are delighted to be partnering with an innovative and impactful leader like Swiggy. As a leader in the on-demand delivery space, Swiggy is at the forefront of innovation and customer experience. This journey is one that we are proud to partner. The best AI/ML solutions require high quality, organised, secure and unbiased training data that don't compromise the intelligence of the algorithms and we fully believe that our services in this space will accelerate Swiggy's transformation roadmap. Alongside our extensive data annotation capabilities and experience supporting cutting-edge AI for our clients, our 'Business for Good' mission believes that purpose and profit go hand in hand. Swiggy's confidence in our ability is a testament to the success of our model. I am excited about the road ahead and look forward to a long-term association with India's leading on-demand delivery platform" said IndiVillage CEO, Smita Malipatil.
In addition to Swiggy, IndiVillage, whose services are delivered out of offices in Yemmiganur, AP, and Raichur, Karnataka, supports some of the world's leading ecommerce and technology companies including Amazon, Appen, Alegion and Mercato, a testament to the firm's quality of service.
IndiVillage is also the first Indian ITeS company to be certified as a B-Corp organization, one that combines purpose and profit with distinction. Certified B Corporations are legally mandated to factor in a broader ecosystem, including employees, clients, suppliers, the community, and the environment in all decision-making processes. Working with Swiggy is another feather in the cap for the company looking to demonstrate that purpose and profit are not mutually exclusive goals.
About Swiggy
Founded in 2014, Swiggy is India's leading on-demand delivery platform with a vision to elevate the quality of life for the urban consumer by offering unparalleled convenience. It connects consumers to thousands of restaurants and stores in over 500 cities. Using innovative technology, Swiggy provides a hassle-free, fast and reliable delivery experience. Every order delivered by Swiggy's fleet of independent delivery partners engaged on a principal to principal basis, ensures a host of customer-centric features like lightning fast delivery, no minimum order value, live order tracking, and 24/7 customer support.
Brian Carvalho, Head of PR & Communications, IndiVillage +91-998-072-3839 / brian@indivillage.com
Agricultural Revolution 4.0
Technology has found its way into the backbone of the economy – Agriculture. We are now living in the age of a fourth agricultural revolution or the digital revolution. As one of the leading parameters in the Essential Eight technologies revolutionizing businesses today, artificial intelligence has its fair share in agriculture as well. From crop and livestock management, weather tracking, drone analytics, and labor management to precision agriculture, AI plays a major role in agricultural technology.
But why the sudden spike?
Now more than ever, there is a need for increased efficiency and more productivity in the agricultural sector. Feeding nine billion people in 2050 seems quite challenging. The demand for food is increasing at an alarming rate and the supply curve does not seem to catch up. Across the globe, this gap between demand and supply in the agricultural sector is widening and various attempts are being made to bridge it. The problems faced individually by farmers are multiplied leading to an overall dearth. While technology has been a boon to humanity in several cases, this has to be one other. Companies are now developing new technologies that allow farmers to control each variable in the farming process to help them increase their yield by finding customized solutions to each crop or farmland.
What the future of Agriculture looks like:
Farmland Monitoring Made Easy: Satellite Imagery paired with Drone Analytics will allow algorithms to identify anomalies in each crop, ensuring that the farmer knows exactly which crop needs what kind of treatment. This field of aggrotech/agritech is also referred to as Precision Farming.
Virtual Livestock Management: Parameters like the heart rate, respiratory rate, blood levels, etc. can be monitored constantly to prevent the livestock from illnesses, and all of this can be done virtually through cameras that capture the live movement of the cattle.
One-Stop-Shop for Analyzing Data: Variables that affect farming such as weather conditions, water usage monitoring, soil conditions, and temperature management can be done under one roof thanks to advancements in technology, thereby reducing human intervention.
Overall Cost Reduction: With automated monitoring on all platforms and targeted solutions to each problem, the overall cost of production in agriculture will see a drastic reduction. Technologies like AI bots will also solve the problem of labour challenges in this sector, which is another cost-cutting factor.
Though the induction of Artificial Intelligence into one of the most primary industries in the world has its own disadvantages, at this stage, the benefits seem to take higher priority. But in order to train any algorithm to perform all the above-mentioned functions, human input is inevitable. Only after feeding large amounts of data into the algorithm and training it to understand and analyze parameters, will any technology be successful to function optimally on its own.
The Power of AI in Healthcare
It is no doubt that the usage of natural language processing and machine learning has transformed the way healthcare is delivered. By analyzing and interpreting massive amounts of data, AI has helped doctors and researchers make better decisions. Decisions for diagnosis of diseases, management of clinical data or patient information, creation of pain management systems, the discovery of new drugs, and even treatment of ailments. AI has dug its roots so deep down in healthcare that there is a company, Insilico, that uses deep learning and AI to help escape the fate of aging. Having advanced to this level with technology still doesn't guarantee a full take-over of human-managed systems by artificial intelligence. Human input is the nucleus of AI.
In a global crisis such as the COVID-19, the most cardinal application of Artificial Intelligence is to facilitate researchers to unearth a vaccine at the earliest. Perfect annotations are required to achieve this and it can only be provided by humans. Even the validation of discoveries needs the intervention of humans.
It is now clearly visible around the world that countries that were aware of COVID-19 were better prepared than others to tackle and control the spread of the pandemic. Bluedot, a Canadian AI startup that was born in the time of SARS, spotted COVID-19 nine days before the World Health Organization released a statement about the same. The company tracks, locates and conceptualizes the spread of infectious diseases using big data. This prediction is all based on the data that it collects and all this data is human recorded. The collection of high-quality data is one of the biggest challenges that face this industry and human support for this, is inevitable.
A recent McKinsey review predicted healthcare as one of the top 5 industries of growth for Artificial Intelligence. Automating and operationalizing health-care access, using big data to track the impact of a virus around the globe, effective screening systems are just some of the major AI involvements. It is said that AI is likely to be the best thing or the worst thing to happen to humanity. But one thing is sure, the path that it will follow will be determined by mankind.
Data Annotators: A Doctor's Best Friends
Imagine an algorithm that detects the presence of the COVID-19 virus through a lung scan? If this technology was readily available all over the world, then the way we dealt with this pandemic would have looked dramatically different. The good news is, this is a possibility in the near future as technology and artificial intelligence penetrate the healthcare world.
Medical images account for at least 90% of all medical data today. They are by far the largest and fastest-growing data source in the healthcare industry and this voluminous amount of data poses equally large challenges for diagnosis. Having to deal with these data adds a tremendous amount of stress to medical workers, patients, and healthcare systems. Well-designed technology can significantly reduce the time taken to arrive at diagnosis, improving health outcomes and in some cases, saving lives.
Diagnosis is a critical element in the care of many patients. Achieving quick and accurate diagnosis of disease is crucial to patient outcomes, and ensures that patients get timely access to the treatments they need. For physicians, a faster diagnosis means more time spent treating and caring for their patients. However, in hospitals around the world, medical diagnosis times can drag on as physicians struggle to acquire necessary testing and information. In these cases, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning can serve as a helpful tool. Research increasingly shows the many ways that artificial intelligence can aid doctors and healthcare systems throughout the patient cycle, from helping detect and classify diseases using medical scans, to aiding in the selection of a treatment course.
Enable Algorithms to Read Scans through Data Annotation
The Medical Futurist claims that data annotators are the unsung heroes of artificial intelligence development. Though drawing lines and deciphering pictures might not sound complex, the scale of data to be annotated and the lack of experts available to do so poses a tough challenge. But successful adoption of training algorithms allow physicians and other healthcare workers to focus on the servicing and caring rather than documenting.
IndiVillage has worked with multiple healthcare organizations looking to improve their AI technology to aid in accurate, timely diagnosis of diseases, such as annotating lungs in chest X-rays. In this case, we annotated medical scans of lung nodules to identify anomalies and feed the annotated data back into their system's algorithm. Using pixel segmentation to annotate lung scans, we effectively train their AI system. Our team of annotation experts quickly acquainted themselves with the client's specific requirements and received training on the anatomy of the human lung and varying types of anomalies that arise in lung scans. Our team generally begins work by identifying abnormalities, looking at approximately 400 images over a three month period. Each image is studied and accurately labelled to create high-quality training data to feed the client's algorithms.
IndiVillage's efforts have aided in training data that the client utilized in their AI technology for faster detection of pulmonary abnormalities, thus reducing overall diagnosis time. This has allowed doctors to focus more on treating the patients than being absorbed in reading a multitude of reports.
Five reasons to integrate AI into your Healthcare Business Now
Artificial Intelligence has now set the foundation for future growth in almost all industries, and healthcare is no different. Through Computer Vision and Machine Learning, algorithms are being trained to execute to perfection – annotation of images, videos, text, and data. But the delicacy of this field and its direct influence on human life, demands faultless performance. While there is constant research undergoing with these technologies, the best way to adapt to AI is to ease into practical usage which is done by taking small steps before establishing it in a large manner. Additionally, training algorithms with continuous data is what helps attain accurate automation, and hence, starting early is always advantageous. Read along to find five reasons why you should consider integrating Artificial Intelligence into your healthcare business now!
End To Endless Documentation
An alarming fact is that 86% of the mistakes made in the healthcare industry are administrative. If that isn't unnerving, another study by techceocouncil stated that three out of every ten tests are reordered because the results cannot be found and patient charts are missing 30% of the time. The stress on proper maintenance of electronic health records could not have a higher priority. AI has the capability to handle unprecedented amounts of data in real-time while eradicating the possibility of human errors and also reducing the manpower needed to maintain these resources.
Medical Image Annotation
Enabling algorithms to read scans through data annotation is one of the most commonly seen applications of Artificial Intelligence. CT Scans, Ultrasound, MRIs, and other scans are labeled by annotators for machine learning training. It helps in the early detection of anomalies in scans, speeding up the process to recovery, and allowing more time for patient care.
AI-Assisted Diagnosis
The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to remote operation of businesses and a world of opportunities in this arena of the healthcare sector. Providing remote access to 24/7 service on mobile phones with questions from patients establishes a groundwork of treatment. Intelligent Virtual Assistant and Medical Virtual Assistant collect details of patients such as patient history, insurance details, demographic information, and this helps increase patient engagement.
Intelligent Medical Machinery
Robot-assisted surgeries were invented two decades ago and since then have been helping surgeons perform complex procedures with precision and accuracy. While smart devices are all around us in daily life, the impact of the same in healthcare is tremendous. An asthma monitoring machine, an AI-powered insulin pump, and an AI drill for ortho are some existing examples. It would be easier to start with smaller equipment and training the staff to be able to work on those before moving to high stake machinery.
Save Time and Cut Costs in the Long Run
Both for the patient and the doctor, the adoption of AI in healthcare would eventually lead to affordability and efficiency after an initial investment. Predictive medical care, providing custom drug treatment, the discovery of drugs, automation of humdrum documentation, and access to remote delivery of medical assistance would create well-oiled healthcare providing organizations.
The healthcare sector is being revolutionized by Artificial Intelligence, and only the ones who hop on the train will be able to reach the destination. In some form or another, AI is already a part of your business but what more can you do to ensure a stronger influence? If you'd like to know more, talk to us.
Prepare your E-Commerce Business for Q4
When the entire world was forced to shut down due to a global pandemic, the spotlight steered towards the E-Commerce industry. These companies then gained a once in a lifetime opportunity where consumers had to resort to online shopping for the most basic things. Though the businesses had to spare an initial amount to adapt to the situation, their unprecedented overall growth is now clearly visible in their profits. The world's largest online retailer, Amazon has recorded the biggest profit in 26 years of its existence, all thanks to COVID-19.
Q4 is a competitive and profitable time period for online retail companies as holiday season engulfs this quarter. Having worked with the E–Commerce Industry for a decade now, we at IndiVillage have first-hand experience in pre-sales data management for product listing and cataloguing and post-sales experience of client servicing using audio transcription and voice annotation. With this knowledge, we list below the key points E-Commerce businesses should keep in mind while preparing for this quarter.
Seller Verification is Crucial
For all E-Commerce businesses that support third party sellers, then the first step to onboarding these sellers is verification of their credentials. Be it confirming the authorization certificates, trademark verifications or self-declaration certification for independent sellers. Ensuring that this process is well established within the company provides credibility for the entire E-Commerce business merely because the sellers would be validated. This exercise also builds a sense of trust within the consumer's mind and most importantly prevents fraudulent sellers from making their way into the organisation. For B2B organisations, we at IndiVillage verify each seller by their identity of brand owners, authorised distributors or independent dealers. Similarly, for B2C organisations like Amazon Saheli (Amazon's initiative to bring to the fore locally made products from women entrepreneurs in India), we verify the information that has been locally collected and create accounts for these sellers.
Perfect Product Description and Cataloguing can go a long way
It has been noted that 23% of product returns are due to inaccurate product descriptions or lack of high quality images. Buyers do not trust the product or the platform selling the product if the listings are not standardized. When you have too many products that have to catalogue, the workforce required to do the same is also high. Capturing and processing of data is what sets the base for any online marketplace. There has been an exponential growth of data in the past few years, and this is one of the main challenges that threatens the foundation of any E-Commerce business. In order to resolve this issue, we can help you in managing a vast expanse of data while maintaining its quality like we have for organisations like Amazon Prime Now, Rankona Mazon and Mercato.
It is no hidden secret that a good picture holds a consumer's attention for longer than a bad one, 65% of the time to be precise. Only after grabbing that attention, will the perfect product description come handy. As an E-Commerce business, the major disadvantage is not being able to provide the 'touch and feel' factor that consumers look for while shopping. The only way to overcome this is to have flawless images that follow the same standard. But it is practically impossible to have the same photographer or designer create all product images and this is where outsourcing this work to tech genies like IndiVillage will save the day. Following GS1 Standards, IndiVillage has worked on scores of images while product listing for multiple organisations, Syndigo being one amongst them.
It Takes Months To Gain A Customer, Seconds To Lose One.
AI is increasingly being utilised to improve customer experience. In AI, annotation is a technique used to create training data for computer vision. This training data aids machines to interpret new data in accordance with the trained algorithm with reduced human intervention. Constant input of training data enhances the AI algorithm and makes it progressive. The applications of image and voice annotation is innumerable, one of them being to enhance customer experience. For example, IndiVillage provides audio annotation services to Swiggy, India's largest food tech company that uses artificial intelligence to deliver food to consumers from selected restaurants. Dealing with millions of orders in a single day, their customer lines are constantly ringing. The challenges for a machine to decipher this data is with respect to the size of the data, the speed at which it is arriving and most importantly the complexity of the mix of languages that is used, given India's diversity. We at IndiVillage receive the data, and transcribe it, in both scripts of Hindi and English with timestamps leading to the millisecond. This helps eradicate the three major challenges, ensuring that the Swiggy team can now focus on enhancing the customer experience while we train the machine to understand it.
Apart from the above mentioned points, there are many other factors to consider while planning for the holiday season. But these are specifically mentioned here because we at IndiVillage can take these challenges into our domain, leaving you to attend to other requirements. Want to know how we can help scale your E-Commerce business this quarter? Talk to us now!
Doing Good is good for business
The current pandemic has upended the economy, healthcare and generally all social systems on an unprecedented scale. It has also forced our collective attention to focus on the absolute essentials – connectedness, health and sustainability.
As the world wakes up to the need for inherent resilience driven by shared responsibility, it has become imperative to embed purpose and conscience into every aspect of civil society. Businesses, with their substantial role in driving progress, are set to be at the heart of this change. They can no longer afford to operate with a myopic focus on profitability or shareholder earnings. They must have a purpose – a broader vision – one built on driving stakeholder value through a model that balances priorities across people, profits and the planet. In line with this understanding, a new wave of companies are starting to drive the next generation of business growth centred on the philosophy that profits and purpose can, and should, be interlinked. Very visible amongst these are certified B-Corporations.
B Corp certifications (the 'B' stands for beneficial), are issued by B Lab, a non-profit organisation headquartered in the US and awarded to companies based on a comprehensive assessment of their performance in five areas – governance, workers, environment, customers, and community. Certified B Corps are then required to integrate stakeholder governance into their articles of association, making operating with purpose essential to their business model. This is the new breed of business.
As a social enterprise with Impact Sourcing at the heart of our philosophy, IndiVillage is the first Indian ITES company to be certified as a B Corp. Our offices in rural India make a substantial impact on the lives of the local community by providing the local educated youth with full and productive employment opportunities and uses its profits to foster greater community development. By providing access to employment to populations that have none, we believe that impact sourcing won't just benefit society at large but will revolutionise the world's understanding of scale and growth delivered in lockstep with social impact. We are bullish about the scalability of our model and its capacity to drive progress while offering exceptional value and quality to our clients. This is evidenced by the fact that some of the world's leading companies like Amazon and Swiggy partner with us for our technical capabilities.
Integrating purpose and social responsibility into the business, however, takes more than just belief. The journey requires time, investment, and diligence to ensure continued success and improvement. The altruistic aspect of our model is balanced by a laser focus on high-quality services, world-class processes, and an elaborate employee development program complete with skills training and individual mentoring.
After all, responsibility doesn't just end with running sustainability, it also requires organisations to make investments in the communities where they exist, giving back and paying it forward in equal measure.
We've lived far too long in an environment dominated by earnings over equality. Friedmanesque capital values have run their course as companies start to become change agents in the new era of business. Now that we are at a stage where those goals are not just compatible but complementary, companies must take note and evolve accordingly. Development can't be left under the purview of governments and philanthropy. It needs capital and vision, both of which the private sector is well placed to offer.
As we make our way through this phase, unlearning and adapting at every step, it is clear that change is here to stay. Most importantly, with the arrest of the pandemic heavily reliant on shared responsibility, COVID-19 has made us realise that no one is an island. We cannot survive in isolation. The opportunity that an unfavourable situation creates, often forcibly, is space for introspection. If supplemented by action, this process can be truly transformative.
The Promise of Impact Sourcing
in a Post-COVID World
"Outsourcing" used to be a dirty word. The practice called to mind an image of employees on the other side of the globe, working in cramped conditions for little pay, and of businesses who prioritized cost-cutting measures over employee welfare. However, over the last decade the practice of outsourcing, and the world of work at-large has been changing. The call-center model of the early 2000s has been largely replaced by one of complex, digital microwork. And the welfare of sourced employees is an increasingly important consideration for buyers and suppliers alike. Impact sourcing has risen in popularity by marrying impact for workers with returns for businesses. And in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, this new model might have more promise than ever before.
What is Impact Sourcing?
The Global Impact Sourcing Coalition defines impact sourcing as a business practice where a company prioritizes suppliers that intentionally hire and provide career development opportunities to people with otherwise limited prospects for formal employment. Impact sourcing is often tailored to a local context but some examples include the targeting of women, differently-abled individuals, unemployed youth and those from rural areas. These employees are frequently educated, skilled individuals who, notwithstanding their talent, remain unemployed because of economic and societal barriers to work. Through the provision of employment to these pools of previously untapped talent, impact sourcing allows these individuals, participating businesses and ultimately, society, to all benefit.
Benefits of Impact Sourcing
Though impact sourcing is a socially-conscious practice, by no means does it amount to charity or CSR on the part of companies who partake. The benefits of impact sourcing can be seen by both buyers and the suppliers.
Diverse Talent
Impact sourcing allows companies to access diverse, previously untapped pools of talent. In contrast to traditional outsourcing providers, who often draw from a recycled pool of the same resources, impact sourcing focuses on bringing fresh talent into the workforce and leveraging their wide-ranging skills and willingness to learn and adapt. For many employees, this is their first well-paying job in a professional environment. As a result, impact sourcing employees report higher levels of motivation and a dedication to completing their tasks in a timely, dedicated manner.
This diverse talent pool also means that impact sourcing suppliers can provide consistent, high-quality work that often exceeds that of traditional outsourcing providers. By paying employees a fair wage and providing access to training and career development opportunities, impact sourcing firms are able to better retain and nurture their workforce. As a result, they report employee attrition rates that are 15-40% lower than traditional outsourcing firms. Over time, these employees are thus able to refine and grow their skills, translating to greater proficiency and improved quality for buyers. And these long-term relationships also mean that companies are able to work with suppliers on more complex, specialized tasks and projects.
While the base-cost is often comparable to that of traditional BPO hiring models, impact sourcing firms are able to reduce long-term costs to companies by investmenting in their employees. Because of low-turnover and high job-satisfaction, impact sourcing firms spend less time and money continually recruiting and training new employees. This translates into long-term cost savings that they are able to pass on to client companies.
The clear and overwhelming benefit of impact sourcing is the sustainable, transformative impact that this practice has on the lives of employees, their families and their communities. By bringing new employees into the workforce and providing them with a meaningful job, competitive salary and opportunities for skill development, impact sourcing firms empower employees with the means to transform their own lives. And through a value chain that includes employees' families and their communities, impact sourcing creates a long-term economic impact in the lives of everyone it touches. By promoting responsible supply chains and social equity, companies that practice impact sourcing are able to use their business for good.
Beyond Business Processes
Though the BPOs were once known exclusively for its association with call-centers, customer service and other basic business functions, the industry has undergone a transformation over the last few years. The rise of artificial intelligence and increasing usage of data by tech and non-tech companies alike has created a demand for skilled microworkers who can train algorithms and annotate data. Today's impact sourcing providers are more likely to be found working on a range of digital solutions for companies including ecommerce cataloging, natural-language processing and data annotation for machine learning.
How Does Impact Sourcing fit into a Post-COVID society?
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a need for innovative new ways of doing business and work. Through its reflection of market trends and emphasis on resilience across the supply chain, impact sourcing is a promising model for the future.
While the increasing penetration of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems into large swaths of daily life was already well under way before the start of the pandemic, the last few months have greatly accelerated existing technology trends. Many firms predict AI technologies, such as those that increase production, augment human workforces and deliver hyper-personalized products to consumers, will be key to private-sector recovery and adaptation after the virus. And according to a 2019 report from research firm Cognilytica, data preparation and engineering tasks account for more than 80% of the time involved in most AI and machine-learning projects. Impact sourcing firms are well-equipped to take on new projects and enhance their existing capabilities in data-labelling and other AI-services. The global market for AI and machine-learning relevant data preparation solutions is expected to reach $1.2 billion by the end of 2023, from about $500 million in 2018. Skilled digital microworkers will be key to the increased impact of this industry.
COVID-19 has also changed the nature of work. In an effort to cut costs and increase the resilience of their personnel to national and international crises, many businesses are looking to diversify their workforces across geographies and functions. A recent report from global research firm, Gartner, found that 32% of organizations are replacing full-time employees with contingent workers. Impact sourcing provides businesses access to a flexible, capable pool of talent without the need to compromise on quality of delivery. Technology firm NTT also conducted a survey of 1,250 executives in 29 countries including India, and found that particularly in the IT industry, 45% organisations will outsource more than insource in the next 18 months. In this environment, impact sourcing firms that can ensure the security and consistency of their IT-enable services will be able to play an important role in helping businesses recover and rebuild strength for the coming years.
Finally, impact sourcing provides a prime opportunity for businesses to address the major social fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The last few months have completely uprooted our societies, leaving millions around the globe facing mass unemployment, dislocation, hunger and poverty. In India alone, unemployment remains at almost 13%. This down from a high of 26% a month earlier, however the pathway toward economic recovery remains very uncertain. By choosing to work with impact sourcing providers, businesses have the opportunity to directly address the needs of some of the most vulnerable members of society and provide those most in need of work with an opportunity to improve their circumstances.
The Future Vision
The future of business and society after the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic remains very unclear. What is clear, however, is the promise of impact sourcing to create more sustainable and inclusive supply chains of talent around the globe.


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