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Data Is Power
Matthew J. Slaughter & David H. McCormick, Foreign Affairs | Data is now at the center of global trade. For decades, international trade...
Digital technologies can help states to face the scale and complexity of COVID-19 vaccine delivery
World Bank Blogs| Vaccination is a high-priority activity in the fight against the COVID-19 global pandemic. Reaching high coverage and...
The Struggle for Technology Sovereignty in Europe
Hermann Hauser, Project Syndicate| From now on, every country or group of countries must ask itself whether it produces the technologies...
Accelerating hydrogen: new issue of Future Power Technology out now
Power Technology | EIT InnoEnergy recently launched the European Green Hydrogen Acceleration Center (EGHAC), a mammoth effort to support...
The Innovation Wars- America’s Eroding Technological Advantage
Christopher Darby & Sarah Sewall, Foreign Affairs | Since the early days of the Cold War, the United States has led the world in...
The rules of the tech game are changing
The Economist | The idea of the technology industry being dominated by monopolies is so widely held that it has monopolised much...
China’s ‘No 1 document’: Beijing steps up focus on food security
Aljazeera| China will put greater pressure on its regions to boost grain yields and step up support for its domestic seed industry as it...
How investments in agricultural technology are accelerating UAE's food security targets
Arabian Business Global| Coronavirus highlighted the need to producing food locally. The UAE’s investments in agriculture technology...
China’s top diplomat says Beijing seeks to U.S. to join forces on new energy and new technologies
Amber Wang, SCMP | Politburo member Yang Jiechi says China puts itself forward to help writing new global rules. China has talked up the...
Can big data help protect the planet
MD Staff, Modern Diplomacy | How do we get to a more sustainable and inclusive future if we don’t know where we are? This is where data...
London Calling for Military Tech Cooperation
Jon Harper, National Defense | With extra money in its coffers for modernization, the U.K. Ministry of Defence is looking for additional...
What makes this Myanmar coup different
Morten B. Pedersen, Australian Strategic Policy Institute| The dominant response to the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February has been,...
Myanmar is Experiencing a Digital-Age Coup – Tech Companies Must Push Back
Allie Funk, Just Security| On Feb. 1, Myanmar’s military seized control of the government, detained political leaders, issued a one-year...
Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Faces Its First Major Test
Jameel Jaffer and Katy Glenn Bass, The New York Times | Facebook’s new Oversight Board is considering whether the company was justified...
Norway, the UK and Canada are not climate champions. They are climate hypocrites
Ivana Kottasová, CNN| Much of the environmental innovation that Norway is so proud of is financed by its oil money. Because Norway, apart...
Could AI ease food security fears?
Liangxiu Han, New Food Magazine| Dr. Liangxiu Han discusses how we might harness big data and machine learning/AI to boost global food...
China issues new anti-monopoly rules targeting its tech giants
Reuters Staff - Reuters| China’s market regulator released new anti-monopoly guidelines that target internet platforms, tightening...
Food Innovation Hubs Put Farmers at Head of the Table for Systems Change
Modern Diplomacy | To meet the SDG and change the way food is produced and consumed, the World Economic Forum, the Government of...
After big hack of U.S. government, Biden enlists 'world class' cybersecurity team
Christopher Bing & Joseph Menn, Reuters | President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise,...
How Companies Should Leverage Digitization
Dambisa Moyo, Project Syndicate| As the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the fragility of many business models, it has also intensified...
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