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What America can learn from Taiwan’s coronavirus response – Vox

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The government of Tawain was prepared and had the capability to undertake a portfolio of 124 coordinated actions involving an all-government approach and including travel bans, quarantines, early testing, surveillance steps, social distancing, an more. Read more below: Aggressive measures starting in December saved Taiwan. Can we learn from them? Source: What America can learn […]

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Is education the new currency?

If we can quantify the value of each educational opportunity, can that data help map a pathway for building the skills needed to succeed? One company is looking into it. Reposted from BBC Source: Is education the new currency? – BBC Worklife

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Systems thinking and DFID\’s education policy

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I am reading the DFID Education Policy Get Children Learning 2018 . The document lays out the principles and priorities of DFID’s policy in the education sector. The word system is used 73 times in the document. Nine times in the key messages section in the beginning. Are we getting closer to development partners applying

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We are seeing the very worst of our scientific predictions come to pass in these bushfires | Joëlle Gergis | Opinion | The Guardian

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As a climate scientist I am wondering if the Earth system has now reached a tipping point

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The transformation of governance and policy systems in the digital age

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I went for a run yesterday evening and listened to one episode of the World Economic Forum Series podcats series on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This episode (abstract and link to ScoundCloud below) focused on changes that may occur in the governance systems and to some extent the democratic principles that underpin them. These changes

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Policymaking by androids?

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Erica was born in 2016. The day she was born she was already 23 years old. That is because Erica is an android. The most advanced humanoid or android to date developed through a collaboration between Osaka and Kyoto universities, and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR). Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University’s Intelligent Robotics Laboratory

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What bees have to do with the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Quite a lot, it turns out.

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Bees and the genetic technology that underpins research on bees is an illuminating window on our future and the complexity, politics, and uncertainty of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, has defined the 4IR as “the confluence of technological breakthroughs, covering wide-ranging fields such as

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Can policy makers catch up with the 4IR?

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Lately, I have been reading more about the challenges that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is bringing to policy making and governance. The pace of the changes is what is challenging governance institutions. It is like policy makers are catching up with the consequences and impact of the new technologies and as the pace of change

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