Media-Insert Communications

Media-Insert Communications

The blog of Media-Insert Communications – featuring freelance P.R. and journalism links to the work of Graham A. Jarvis.

Editing, Journalism, Copywriting, and Public Relations

Category: Clients, Past and Present

  • The Covid-19 pandemic has been a catalyst for change for many organisations, and schools haven’t been left out of the push it has created for digital transformation and online learning. Although now over, school closures “drove multi-generational digital upskilling in schools. A study published on 26th April 2021 by education and assessment company Pearson reveals…

  • While much of The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) have been incorporated into UK law, it’s still important to consider what has changed in terms of how companies – particularly UK-based ones – ensure compliance to data protection regulations. It was argued in 2017 by Index Engines that GDPR puts personal data back…

  • Nearly a year ago the European Commission published a report on the ethics of data and artificial intelligence in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Part of the discussion in the text is about data and artificial intelligence (AI) ethics to provide some insight into the data protection issues automakers are expected to overcome. According to…

  • Navigation products are being released all the time promising drivers the ability to take into account extreme weather conditions. Matthew Avery, director of insurance research at Thatcham Research, reminds us that drivers need to be aware of the weather at all times in order to ensure that they drive safely. Connectivity can permit them to…

  • The mobility industry is transforming itself and, with it, comes the need to change and improve automotive connectivity. New technologies won’t work without it because it defines the future of mobility thanks to the key role that real-time data analysis, to and from vehicles as well as from the infrastructure around them, will play. It…

  • Innovative teacher Lucy Bate, of Delamere Academy in Tarporley, Cheshire, found a creative way of teaching her students their times tables. As a Key Stage 2 teacher she has been taking her classes outside and using a drone “to capture the imagination of her maths pupils.” The pupils learnt their times tables by arranging themselves…

  • Oslo kicked off its plans to integrate autonomous vehicles into its network transport network in January 2021 with a year-long autonomous vehicle trial. The city’s transport network is operated by Ruter, the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus county in Norway. With its partners it is operating the pilot in Nordre Follo municipality, near…

  • Simon Gianordoli, policy and project officer at ERF, explains the study, on connected and autonomous mobility, analyzed regulatory and legislative advancements within this field to comprehend “what is and what would be the role of the road infrastructure”. Top of the rankings for this were the Netherlands and Sweden. “The Netherlands is considered to be…

  • A confirmation by the UK Government confirmed in April that automated lane keeping systems (ALKS) technology “could be legally defined as self-driving, despite insurance industry concerns around safety”, says the Insurance Times. Matthew Avery, director of research at Thatcham Research, explained in the article that “there is still a lot of work needed by both…

  • During the Covid-19 pandemic, hackers and fraudsters have been extremely active. During the first half of 2020, stimulated by the fact that more people began to work remotely from home, Bitdefender’s Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020 claims there was a 715 percent year-on-year increase in detected – and blocked – ransomware attacks. No organization, no…