Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

TechInnovation – Egyptian ride-sharing company Swvl plans to go public in a $1.5B SPAC merger (TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor writes: Cairo and Dubai-based ride-sharing company Swvl plans to go public in a merger with special purpose acquisition company Queen’s Gambit Growth...
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TechInnovation – The Lilium electric jet will use batteries manufactured by Germany’s Customcells (TechCrunch)

Aria Alamalhodaei writes: Electric air taxi startup Lilium has tapped German manufacturer Customcells to supply batteries for its flagship seven-seater Lilium Jet. go to TechCrunch:...
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TechInnovation – Casey Teske Tackles Wildfire in the Field and the Office (Esri)

Ryan Lanclos writes: Casey Teske sees her mission statement as this: Understand fire. It’s that simple, and that complicated. For Teske, a fire management analyst for the US...
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Japan/Defense – Japan signals more robust security posture in new defence white paper (The Strategist)

Thomas Wilkins and Daisuke Akimoto write for The Strategist: Japan’s new defence white paper, Defense of Japan 2021, affirms Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s continuation of his predecessor...
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Australia/Defense – An Australia DARPA would need to do development as well as research (The Strategist)

Graeme Dunk and James Kruger write: In a recent ASPI report, Robert Clark and Peter Jennings argued for the establishment of an Australian version of the US Defense...
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Australia/Defense – Reforming Defence is about the mission and urgency—not lengthy corporate documents (The Strategist)

Michael Shoebridge writes: Changing Defence only matters if you care about Australia’s security and understand what’s happening in the world. Organisational reform and cultural change in...
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Water Disputes/Middle East – Water disputes will compound instability in the Middle East (The Strategist)

Amin Saikal writes: The Middle East is one of the driest regions in the world. The scarcity of water has often been touted as...
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Vietnam – Bad news for Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (The Interpreter)

MILTON OSBORNE writes: The release of recent research from the Netherlands adds an additional insight into what is happening in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, the country’s all-important...
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Africa/Europe/Mozambique – Africa and Europe rally to contain Islamic insurgency in Mozambique (The Interpreter)

DAVID BREWSTER writes: In recent days, military advance teams from South Africa and Botswana began to deploy to northern Mozambique to support governments forces in their...
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China/USA – Far more world leaders visit China than America (The Interpreter)

NEIL THOMAS writes: In April, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga became the first foreign leader to meet US President Joe Biden at the White...
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India/Cyber – India: A very colonial hangover (The Interpreter)

EDMOND ROY writes: In the 1830’s Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay set about drafting a piece of legislation that would outlive not just him but also the...
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Germany – Merkel and beyond (The Interpreter)

JAN BIELICKI writes: She was wading through debris left by catastrophic floods in the west of Germany. Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel had, last week,...
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Europe/Lebanon – People before politicians: How Europeans can help rebuild Lebanon (ECFR)

Carmen Geha writes: The magnitude, nature, and timing of the August 2020 Beirut port explosion could not have been worse for Lebanon’s faltering economy,...
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Indonesia – Indonesia must act on illegal gold mining or fall for fool’s gold (East Asia Forum)

Muhammad Beni Saputra writes: Indonesia’s illegal gold mining problems reveal deeper issues with local level corruption and economic inequality. In Sumatra, gold miners have complained about...
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Techno Democracies/Semiconductors – Biden looks to techno-alliances to chip in on semiconductors (East Asia Forum)

Tian He writes for East Asia Forum: The Biden administration has proposed an ambitious plan to build an alliance of techno-democracies to counter the rapid rise...
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USA/TechInnovation – Now is the time for a federal cloud modernization moonshot (Brookings)

Bill Whyman writes for Brookings: Now is the time to launch a Federal Cloud Modernization “moonshot” to modernize all practical legacy civilian IT systems...
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