Top Technologies that helped people in 2018

Government is using new ways to use technology to help people globally from stopping child trafficking to mapping slums or medicine delivery. Here are some of the best uses of technology in 2018.

Top Technologies

Drone delivered vaccines is one and foremost update of the year. A One-month old baby in Vanuatu in December became the first person in the world to be immunized with a vaccine delivered by a commercial drone.  Secondly Thailand turned to satellites to combat forced labour in fishing industry. By Using satellite data, the authorities pinpoint the ship location at seas for a long time potentially indicating enslavement of forced labor.

Thirdly,An app that identifies crop-munching army worm that helps farmers to identify pests and diseases which eats crops. Fourthly News apps in India are helping women from harassment and seek help. Fifthly Mosquito Packed drones spraying millions of sterile mosquitoes are helping combat the Zika, Dengue and yellow fever. 

Sixthly Indian satellites are using drones and satellites to map Indian Slum areas essential services and land rights. This is key to secure land tenure and improving facilities for Slum people. Seventhly A new machine that converts plastic to fuel helps to curb pollution in developing areas of the community. Eighthly A new virtual reality training program was launched that teaches employees how to react when they witness inappropriate behavior and harassment in the work place.

Ninthly Moldova became the first country in the world to trial using blockchain to save children from traffickers. The Blockchain technology scans the eyes and fingerprints of children attempting to take the child with out permission is recorded on the database. Finally, Mobile Technology is helping farmers in Kenya that detect counterfeit seeds (poor quality and uncertified seeds) to help them boosting the climatic change hit harvests. They will place the stickers inside the bags to seed with a scratch-off code , which farmers can send text messages to find out whether content matches with the description.