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(Uganda) Uganda country update: Feasibility study on agricultural insurance for oilseed farmers (IFAD)

https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/publication/asset/42415046

(Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning) An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini (MIT Technology Review)

Karen Hao https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/29/1017065/ai-image-generation-is-racist-sexist/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=02-01-2021&mc_cid=fa03284a78&mc_eid=e4d30af98f

(USA) People are fed up with broken vaccine appointment tools — so they’re building their own (MIT Technology Review)

Tanya Basu https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/01/1016725/people-are-building-their-own-vaccine-appointment-tools/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=02-01-2021&mc_cid=fa03284a78&mc_eid=e4d30af98f

(USA) What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? (MIT Technology Review)

Cat Ferguson https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=02-01-2021&mc_cid=fa03284a78&mc_eid=e4d30af98f

(USA/Middle East) How President Biden Can Tackle the Middle East’s Biggest Problems. Nine joint recommendations from leading think tanks in the United States, United...

By Kirsten Fontenrose, Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, and Udi Dekel February 1, 2021 — As US President Joe Biden takes office and confronts the mire of interlocking crises that...

(Tunisia) BDC Snapshots: Tunisia’s persistent economic woes may endanger its fledgling democracy (Brookings)

Yasmina Abouzzohour https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/bdc-snapshots-tunisias-persistent-economic-woes-may-endanger-its-fledgling-democracy/

(USA) Will the Supreme Court weaken lower-court checks on Biden’s executive power? (Frank J. Thompson, Brookings)

Frank J. Thompson https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/02/01/will-the-supreme-court-weaken-lower-court-checks-on-bidens-executive-power/

(Peru) Lessons for combating despair? Hope, aspirations, and the outcomes of young adults in Peru (Brookings)

Carol Graham https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/02/01/lessons-for-combating-despair-hope-aspirations-and-the-outcomes-of-young-adults-in-peru/

(USA) How the NSC can better tackle emerging technology threats (Brookings)

Brendan McCord is a technology entrepreneur and a former HQE/SGE at the Department of Defense, where he was an author of the Department of Defense...

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