The Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation & Technology Association (ALITA), is recognising legal innovators and technologists across the Asia-Pacific region.  At this year’s Awards, they have 6 categories that include outstanding legal innovator, 'legal tech for good’, and  ‘people’s choice award’.  If you believe that you are (or know) a deserving nominee, please consider nominating yourself or share these details - https://alita.legal/alita-awards-2023 - to encourage more wonderful legal innovation and technology work and stories to be known and celebrated.Nominations close on August 25 and the selected finalists and winners will be showcased at TechLawFest in Singapore on September 21-22. 

Imagine that shoppers can walk into stores, select their items off the shelves, and leave without having to queue at checkout or scan any goods. Payments and receipts are settled digitally. Israeli company Trigo transforms existing supermarkets into fully autonomous digital stores where feeds from ceiling-mounted cameras and shelf sensors are analyzed to generate a “digital twin” of the store. Computer vision algorithms, similar to the ones on driverless cars, log interactions between humans and merchandise. The result is a fundamental transformation in the way physical stores are being managed and experienced by both shoppers and operators. More info: https://israeltrade.org.au/2023/08/15/trigo-vision-retail-automation-platform/

Plastic Bank helps people earn a living going door-to-door or through the streets collecting plastic in third world countries. By doing so, plastic never leaves land  that could prove harmful to the ocean and its sea life if it were washed out to the ocean during the rainy season from rivers. At the end of the day, the collectors  bring it back to one of the Plastic Bank’s locations, where it is weighed. The value of the plastic is transferred into a personal online account for the collector.