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Agriculture/Climate Change – Agricultural insurance: The antidote to many economic illnesses (Brookings)

Gracelin Baskaran and Barry Maher In recent years, the world has encountered a range of compounding shocks: droughts, floods, wildfires, cyclones, and most recently, a worldwide pandemic...

China – Chinese supply chains prove resilient to global shocks and pressure (East Asia Forum)

Ka Zeng, University of Arkansas In the past couple of decades multinational corporations have invested heavily in China to cut production costs and capitalise on...

An Overview Of Business Analyst Mobile App Photo Viewer (Esri)

Geetha Narayanan Photo Viewer is a powerful image viewer in ArcGIS Business Analyst Mobile that handles the standard and panoramic images that all the latest phones can...

What’s new in ArcGIS QuickCapture (May 2021) (The Science of Where)

Ismael Chivite The ArcGIS QuickCapture mobile app is the simplest way to collect field observations. It is as simple to use as the camera app...

Advanced Arcade – Create Drive Time Trade Areas from Enriched Data (Esri)

Joel McCune Isochrones, drive time polygons delineating the area around a location, are a particularly common method of determining the area used for assigning demographic...

The Science of Where – Connection Status: What is it and why does it matter in ArcGIS Mission? (Esri)

Ian Thoman ArcGIS Mission allows mission members to operate in the field through use of the ArcGIS Mission Responder app. Mission Responder users are highly mobile, able to...

Israel/Palestine/USA – The Current Israeli-Palestinian Crisis: Possibilities for New Junctures or a Return to Status Quo? (CFR)

Panelists discuss the Biden administration's response to the crisis in Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank, including next steps beyond the ceasefire. https://www.cfr.org/event/current-israeli-palestinian-crisis-possibilities-new-junctures-or-return-status-quo

Health Care Technology – The Future of Health-Care Technology (CFR)

Speakers Ran Balicer Chief Innovation Officer, Clalit Health Services Farzad Mostashari Chief Executive Officer, Aledade, Inc.; Former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health and Human Services...

Misinformation – Misinformation and Trust in Media (CFR)

Daniel Acosta-Ramos, investigative researcher at First Draft News, shares best practices in fact-checking and monitoring misinformation. Joy Mayer, founder of Trusting News, discusses how local...

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