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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...


Russia and China Are Beating The U.S. At Vaccine Diplomacy
Alexander Smith, NBC News| Although Beijing and Moscow deny it, experts say they are beginning to see how the strategy of selling or...


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...


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...


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...


Biden-Harris Administration Launches American Innovation Effort to Create Jobs and Tackle the Climat
The White House | The Biden-Harris Administration is initiating an ambitious innovation effort to create American jobs while tackling the...


Singapore Builds One Of World's Biggest Solar Farms To Fight Climate Change
Vishal Tiwari, RepublicWorld | Singapore is building one of the world's largest floating solar farms off the coast to support the...


Digital Currencies: Economic and Geopolitical Challenges
Stewart Fleming & Stephen Pickford, Chatham House | The governments of the G7 are well aware of the benefits of digital financial...


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...


Power surge: How the European Green Deal can succeed in Morocco and Tunisia
Amine Bennis, ECFR | North African countries such as Morocco and Tunisia can help Europe meet its carbon emissions targets and strengthen...


Cyber Doctrines and the Risk of Nuclear Crisis Instability. Russian and Chinese Use of Proxies
CFR | For Russia, it has been longstanding practice for the state security service (FSB) and military intelligence (GRU) to employ cyber...


5 ways in which APIs are the building blocks of a safer, less hateful internet
Kenneth Kwok, World Economic Forum | Harmful content and misinformation is everywhere around us on search engines, social networks and...


Trade Can Drive a Revived U.S. Strategy in Asia
Alexander Feldman, Foreign Policy | U.S. relations with Asia have been hobbled by outgoing President Donald Trump’s isolationism, which...


Disappointing Chinese Vaccine Results Pose Setback for Developing World
Sui-Lee Wee and Ernesto Londoño, New York Times | Scientists in Brazil have downgraded the efficacy of a Chinese coronavirus vaccine that...


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...


China’s Ambitious COVID-19 Vaccine Targets
Eleanor Albert, The Diplomat | 2021 is a year for vaccines and the hope of a return to normalcy. China, which was first hit by the...


Are Smart Cities Still A Smart Bet Amid ‘Urban Flight’ And The Pandemic?
PYMNTS | The pandemic has pressured corporate top lines — and as a result, leaves less money to go around to fund innovation, especially...


Vaccine Diplomacy: In 2021, the UAE will become the new vaccine hub of the Middle East
Mona Ali, ORF | During the coronavirus pandemic, the UAE contributed to the development of a new vaccine by actively participating in...


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...


Diplomatic Technology Summit Highlights Israeli Innovation in Post-COVID World
Eliana Rudee, The Algeimeiner | The global DiploTech summit brought together ambassadors and technology leaders to explore Israel’s...


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...


Nations Sign First Agreement to Unlock Potential of Emerging Tech
Modern Diplomacy, Newsroom | As people and businesses focus on recovery, governments must ensure that innovation which will power...


Backed by space technology, Asia-Pacific countries power sustainable development
Newsroom, Modern Diplomacy | Asian and Pacific nations are increasingly leveraging space technology and geospatial information to respond...


What could a good green recovery plan actually look like?
Fiona Harvey, Gaurdian| While some countries – notably the EU, and especially member states France and Germany – have emphasised a push...


Has Covid changed ESG investing?
Aamina Zafar, Financial Times | Terence Moll argued that technology, regulation and client demand will continue to drive investors’...


‘Fire hose’ of health innovation risks going down the drain
Steve Davis, Financial Times | Technologists around the world are developing digital tools to help distribute a hoped-for Covid-19...


Humans have been living aboard the International Space Station for 20 years. What comes next?
Christian Davenport , The Washington Post | The astronauts have managed to live aboard the International space station continuously for...


Professor Whose Economic Model Predicted Trump Win in 2016 Says President Will Beat Biden
David Child News Week | John Antonakis, a professor of Organisational Behaviour from Switzerland's Lausanne University, said the model's...


2020 elections: AI has chosen a winner- but there’s a catch
Independent | AI will one day be able to predict the outcomes of the electoral college with near-total precision: it’s not a matter of...


The Coming Revolution in Intelligence Affairs
Anthony Vinci, Foreign Affairs In the future, machines will spy on machines in order to know what other machines are doing or are...


This AI Expert From Senegal Is Helping Showcase Africans In STEM
Forbes Adji Bousso Dieng, an AI Expert From Senegal, works in an area of Artificial Intelligence called generative modeling. "Generative...


Is AI a Force For Good?
Interview With Branka Panic, Founder And Executive Director At AI For Peace Forbes When creating AI systems, organizations should also...


Artificial Intelligence and Its Partners
Oleg Shakirov, Modern Diplomacy The creation of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) reflects the growing interest of...


What’s This? A Bipartisan Plan for AI and National Security
Tom Simonite, Weird US Representatives Will Hurd and Robin Kelly are from opposite sides of the ever-widening aisle, but they share a...


Empowering education through artificial intelligence
Yang Meiping, Shine | Experts from China and abroad shared their ideas on how artificial intelligence can empower education in...


Can AI Serve The World In A Time Of Crisis Like The COVID-19 Pandemic
Niven Narain, Ai Thority As COVID-19 continues to ravage parts of the world, global industries including tech, healthcare and...


DeepMind sets AI loose on Diplomacy board game, and collaboration is key
R. Dallon Adams, TechRepublic Artificial intelligence systems have become increasingly well-adapted to a host of basic board games. Now,...


What's the science on the Emirates Mars Mission?
Zulfikar Abbany, DW The United Arab Emirates (UAE) launches its first mission to Mars, the 'Al-Amal', 'Hope' Mars Mission from Japan's...


International community rallies to support open research and science to fight COVID-19
World Health Organization WHO and Costa Rica launch landmark COVID-19 Technology Access Pool. Read the full article HERE #CostaRica #WHO...


Supercharging Sustainable Development
Sean O'Neill, The Alan Turing Institute A bold new approach to development economics, championed by the Turing and the United Nations...


Leveraging AI to battle this pandemic — and the next one
Theos Evgeniou, David R. Hardoon, and Anton Ovchinnikov, Harvard Business Review Throughout the pandemic, great emphasis has been placed...


Resource Center for Israeli CoronaTech Innovation
Explore coronavirus innovation-related challenges and solutions in Israel, and around the world by Start-Up Nation Central; HealthIL;...


Deloitte's new venture to serve digital economy
Ding Yining, Shine Deloitte China has unveiled a new high-tech venture Deloitte HiTech Ltd in Shanghai to offer integrated digital...


Businesses told to get ready for digital economy-driven recovery
Issac John, Khaleej Times The global economic trends for the post-COVID-19 era will give rise to a new global supply chain and new...

Bots at the service of Diplomacy
Chatbots provide millions with COVID-19 information every day, but they can be improved - here’s how from TECH One of the most...


COVID-19 Response
Bloomberg Philanthropies Giving public health professionals the tools to protect the public is vital to saving lives and to help mitigate...


TechStream - Where technology and policy intersect
Chris Meserole and Fred Dews, Brookings (Podcast) Chris Meserole is the deputy director of the Brookings Artificial Intelligence and...


Here’s how ‘science diplomacy’ can help us contain COVID-19
Marga Gual Soler and Tolullah Oni, World Economic Forum Advocating for countries to follow the lead of scientists in practices regarding...
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