THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz

THE BRIEF

Maya Plentz is the founder and chief editor of THE BRIEF, a weekly newsletter with exclusive interviews and analysis focusing on tech policy, and the global digital economy. She has over two decades of experience in the news media sector. Her work has aired at UN Radio, BBC World, RFI and Bloomberg TV.During her tenure as a producer and presenter at Bloomberg TV in New York, she covered Google, Microsoft, and the 2000 dot-com boom. She also produced a daily segment on science, medicine, and technology. At the UN News and Media Division in New York, she served as a b...

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THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz

Episodes (8)

Apr 14, 2025 Rainforest Connection Uses AI to Protect the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Biodiversity and Halt Illegal Logging
Apr 14, 2025 Paris Peace Forum, Interview with Justin Vaisse, Founder and Executive Director
Apr 14, 2025 UN Refugee Agency Fundraising Strategy

THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz

Apr 14, 2025
9 minutes
13 MB

I interviewed Bourhan Yassin, CEO of Rainforest Connection, a company that applies AI to acoustics for data insights to better inform conservation, preserve biodiversity, and protect the rainforests from illegal logging. They are currently working in 80 countries, including Brazil, where most of their work is happening. RFCx works with audio to monitor species of wild birds for instance, to analyse the sounds of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest, and works with indigenous communities to help them identify illegal logging, and to catalogue species to protect biodiversity. They use satellites developed by Swarm, that operates ultra-small satellites...

THE BRIEF by Maya Plentz

Rainforest Connection Uses AI to Protect the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Biodiversity and Halt Illegal Logging

THE BRIEF

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