AGP Executive Report
Last update: 11 hours agoAI and Cultural Heritage: Valletta’s mayor and Malta’s honorary consul to Bangladesh discussed using AI and virtual technology to help visitors explore the capital’s heritage. AI and Jobs: A Maltese opinion piece calls for official scrutiny of reports that AI is displacing gaming-industry workers; GamingMalta says talent is being redeployed. Asian Hornet Research: Malta’s new action plan will fund research with scientific institutes and beekeepers to test control technologies, monitoring tools and nest-tracing methods. Assistive Technology: Malta shared its experience at an EU conference in Dublin, where officials urged accessibility to be built into technology from the start and people with disabilities to help shape solutions. Digital Planning: The Planning Authority is preparing for digital submissions of 3D models for major projects, using geospatial data and analysis to inform decisions. Heat and Health: A study of 854 European cities estimated more than 50,000 heat-related deaths this summer; Malta recorded Europe’s highest standardised rate, at 716 deaths per million. Researchers attributed about two-thirds of the overall toll to climate change.
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