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WHO supports South African consortium to establish first COVID mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub
World Health Organization News Photo by Testalize on Unsplash The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are working with...


Finland’s prime minister on why innovation alone can’t tackle the climate crisis
Sanna Marin, World Economic Forum| Climate change and biodiversity loss are the most pressing challenges of our time, so all responsible...


Science Diplomacy and its Opportunities in Southeast Asia
Winston Michalak, International Policy Digest | The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here. Southeast Asian nations, in particular, have...


The Digital Legacy of Covid-19
Ilan Manor, E-International Relations| Covid-19 impacted diplomacy in an unprecedented way. The wheels of international diplomacy came to...


Solar technologies can speed up vaccine rollout in Africa
Benson Kibiti, The conversation | There’s hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against...


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...


Here's how digital transformation and sustainability can flourish together
John Frey, World Economic Forum| Almost every organisation has accelerated its digital transformation initiatives in 2020. But how many...


Women entrepreneurs adapt to new technology, mental wealth and community to build and grow business
Stephanie Campbell, It World Canada | Women entrepreneurs are at the forefront of change. To address these changes and help foster a...


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 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 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...


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...


Pursuing Normalization With Iraq, Israeli Digital Diplomacy Plays the Heritage Card
Jonathan Shamir, Haaretz | Unlike its online outreach to the Gulf states, the Foreign Ministry's ‘Israel in the Iraqi Dialect’ Facebook...


UAE-Israel collaboration to bring innovation in healthcare, medical tech
Hannah Brown, Jerusalem Post | In two sessions of the UAE-Israel Peace and Prosperity Roundtable presented by The Khaleej Times and The...


The war between Silicon Valley and Washington takes a new turn
Nancy Scola, Politico | The takedown of President Donald Trump's Twitter account marks an assertion of power by an online industry that...


Six humanitarian lessons from the COVID-19 crisis
United Nations / OCHA 2020 showed us the consequences of not cooperating, said participants of the UN humanitarian agency OCHA’s annual...


These are the countries where AI is aiding productivity the most
Katharina Buchholz - World Economic Forum | The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is already a reality in many industries, but the...


Geneva Science and Diplomacy start-up marks new stage
Julia Crawford, SwissInfo | After much expectation, a Swiss government-sponsored foundation that aims to bring the worlds of science and...
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