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(India) This project wants to bring broadband – and hope – to rural India (WEF)

Mark McCord https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/digital-divide-rural-india-internet-access-microsoft/

(Lebanon) Six months after the Beirut port explosion: reflections from a first responder (WEF)

Georges Kettaneh, Secretary-General, Lebanese Red Cross https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/beirut-port-explosion-response-lebanese-red-cross/

(Mobility/Planet) Electric fleets can fuel decarbonisation efforts. Here’s how (WEF)

Maya Ben Dror, Project Lead, Future of Mobility, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution of the World Economic Forum Mary Loane, Project Lead,...

(Myanmar) Myanmar’s civil–military maelstrom (East Asia Forum)

Marco Bünte, Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/05/myanmars-civil-military-maelstrom/

(Myanmar/ASEAN) Myanmar exposes ASEAN’s cheap talk on democracy (East Asia Forum)

Mathew Davies, ANU https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/02/04/myanmar-exposes-aseans-cheap-talk-on-democracy/

(Southeast Asia/Democracy/Rights) Screening and Discussion of “A Thousand Cuts” (CFR)

Speakers Ramona Diaz Filmmaker, A Thousand Cuts, FRONTLINE, PBS Joshua Kurlantzick Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations; @JoshKurlantzick Maria Ressa Author and Journalist; Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, Rappler Presider Jacob M. Weisberg Cofounder...

(USA) After the Capitol Riot, Biden’s Summit for Democracy Is More Needed Than Ever (World Politics Review, CFR)

Stewart M. Patrick https://www.cfr.org/article/after-capitol-riot-bidens-summit-democracy-more-needed-ever

(USA) Understanding the No Surprises Act (Brookings)

Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, Paul B. Ginsburg, Mark Hall, Benedic Ippolito, and Erin Trish https://www.brookings.edu/blog/usc-brookings-schaeffer-on-health-policy/2021/02/04/understanding-the-no-surprises-act/

(Africa) Long-term strategies for an African recovery from COVID-19: A CEO’s perspective (Brookings)

Ashish J. Thakkar https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2021/02/04/long-term-strategies-for-an-african-recovery-from-covid-19-a-ceos-perspective/

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