Partnerships for the Goals

• [New] A new partnership between Tavistock Development Company, the city of Orlando and Lillium Aviation, Inc. is moving forward with a plan to bring a high-speed, electric air mobility network to Orlando by 2025.
• [New] All in, Denver expects to spend $30 million per year on affordable housing, creating 6,000 new units over the next five years, in part through a partnership with Denver Housing Authority.
• Duke University's ambitious effort to become carbon neutral by 2024 will add an expanded solar energy component through a partnership with an Asheville, North Carolina-based solar developer.
• Zoom will be made available on Amazon's Echo later in 2020 in the U.S., alongside Google's video hardware including the Nest Hub Max by the end of the year.
• In 2018, Walgreens Boots Alliance retail operations announced a partnership with insurance company Humana for seniors and, in July, Walgreens announced it will expand its reach into primary care with plans to open 500 to 700 clinics in the next five years in partnership with VillageMD.
• With the US set to leave Afghanistan, a partnership with Iran will give China a near-stranglehold over the strategic corridor stretching from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea.
• Morgan Stanley has become the first US-based global bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the environmental impact of its investment portfolio and loan offerings and will join a global partnership to drive climate action across the global accounting sector.
• $1 million in funding has been awarded to seven New York cities to develop innovative public-private partnerships that will use technology to address pressing municipal challenges, particularly as New York builds back better from the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The launch of Cyclyx and efforts to establish new partnerships will expand the impact GE's digital solutions have in the recycling of postuse plastics across multiple industries.
• A program to monitor and improve artisanal cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo will double the number of mining sites it covers this year through a partnership between RCS Global Group and the Responsible Minerals Initiative.
• Toyota is building a new vehicle assembly line in Guangdong province, southeast China: The new expansion project will allow Toyota to speed up its introduction of electric vehicles (EVs) in the Chinese market.
• Festival goers will see the film in the brand new VR Theater located in Venice's Casino.
• Worldwide devices spending on PCs, tablets, ultramobiles and mobile phones are projected to remain flat in 2017 at $589bn (£484bn).
• Clairvoyant Gartner has once again dusted off the crystal ball in its quarterly global IT spend divination ritual to predict a 2.7 per cent year-on-year increase in 2017.
• Smart grids and super-grids will allow energy surplus in one part of the world to make up for deficiencies in another.
• The remarkable pace of change within technology and communications is providing either a road to opportunity and development of the HR role or potentially a recession into a basic business function.
• Rio's Climate Action Plan, created by the municipal government in partnership with C40, establishes the goal of achieving carbon emissions neutrality by 2050.
• Germany eyes hydrogen capacity of up to 5 GW by 2030, with a further 5 GW to be installed by 2040 at the latest at a cost of about €7 bln, with the other €2 bln for forging partnerships with countries where hydrogen can be efficiently produced.
• Ford has entered into a partnership with Volkswagen that will see the US automaker use the German giant's battery tech in an electric car slated for the European market in 2023.
• The Franco-German partnership is the first attempt to offer a European alternative to Amazon, Microsoft and Google in cloud computing, a business expected to grow by 6.3% in 2020 to $257.9 billion.
• In partnership with Megaport, a Network as a Service provider, Leaseweb Cloud Connect will initially provide connectivity to AWS, with plans in place to add additional hyperscalers throughout 2020.
• Rolls-Royce previously demonstrated a fully autonomous passenger ferry in Finland and announced a partnership with Intel as part of a grand plan to bring self-guided cargo ships to the world's seas by 2025.
• In 2021, AI augmentation - a human-centered partnership model where people and AI work together to enhance cognitive performance, including learning, decision making, and new experiences-will create $2.9 trillion of business value and 6.2 billion hours of worker productivity globally.

Last updated: 22 November 2020