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The Science of Where. Nonprofits Use GIS for Grassroots Community Engagement (Jen Van Deusen, Esri)

Migration paths of the monarch butterfly (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). Overwintering sites in Mexico and California. The Field Museum in Chicago uses GIS to...

The Science of Where. Sharpening the Tools That Transform Utility Arborists’ Workflows (Pat Hohl, Esri)

Digital transformation is exploding—changing work and even the way we order lunch on the go. Mobile tools that specifically account for place update utility...

The Science of Where. Grid Modernization Readiness (Pat Hohl, Esri)

Grid modernization is an idea that takes on classic utility challenges and new ones too. Many long-standing assumptions about generation, climate, and customers are...

Africa. 20 years after 9/11, jihadi terrorism rises in Africa (Alexandre Marc, Brookings)

The very rapid fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban is bringing back the nightmarish thought that global jihadi terrorist groups will again find a...

Africa. The role of fiscal decentralization in promoting effective domestic resource mobilization in Africa (Leo Holtz and Aloysius Uche Ordu, Brookings)

The lingering economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting sub-Saharan Africa’s traditional financial inflows, revealing the heightened need to strengthen domestic resource mobilization...

Chile. How Chile implemented its computer science education program (Brian Fowler and Emiliana Vegas, Brookings)

Computer science (CS) education helps students acquire skills such as computational thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration. It has been linked with higher rates of college...

Afghanistan/Europe. Afghan refugees: Europe should develop an ambitious and collaborative structure (Bernard Siman, EGMONT)

The TV news and press coverage of the mayhem in Kabul and around its airport mask the greater scrum by tens, if not hundreds, of...

Germany/Europe. What will Germany’s elections mean for the EU? (Sophie Pornschlegel, European Policy Centre)

This article was first published by Green European Journal Federal elections will take place in Germany on 26 September 2021. After 16 years at the helm...

Cybersecurity. Israeli firm “Bright Data” (Luminati Networks) enabled the attacks against Karapatan (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Who is behind the massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that hit the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan? ISRAELI FIRM ‘BRIGHT DATA’ (LUMINATI...

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