"It’s cheap and easy to design systems that identify people who are good at doing human mRNA work, and encourage them to do more of it. Why aren’t more leaders, planners, and policymakers doing this?" vaughntan.org/human-mrna

Ethiopia, the first country in the world to ban the import of gasoline and diesel vehicles lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-af…

"How do you depict a city whose population has grown, from 1 to 16 million in my lifetime, where a chance archaeological discovery of a bizarre set of footprints buried in the tar added another five thousand years to its history?" cornucopia.net/blog/istanbul-…

Computer Atlas of Kenya - "These maps, produced by Taylor in 1970 using a computer program called SYMAP, document the geography of British colonialism in Kenya" leventhalmap.org/digital-exhibi… From a great Leventhal Map & Education Center at the BPL online exhibit on digital cartography

Calling newsroom and freelance journalists, photojournalists and documentary filmmakers. Apply for the Pulitzer Center ‘Underreported African Stories’ grant. The benefits: 👉Publishing across news outlets. 👉Support with educational materials 👉funding Deadline: rolling

The Hague will become first city to ban fossil fuel ads by law ft.com/content/2ddd37…

El próximo miércoles en el itdUPM hablaremos de laboratorios ciudadanos como infraestructuras en red para la experimentación, la cooperación social y la construcción de nuevos comunes. Será a las 15.30h itd.upm.es/18-de-septiemb…

At the upcoming Labour Party Conference, join Georgia Gould and me for a joint UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose IPPR event moderated by Harry Quilter-Pinner: "Walking the talk on missions: A different way to do government". Explore how The Labour Party can transform statecraft in the UK. 22 Sep | 17:45-19:00 BST |

Rush your abstracts fr this unique conference, 5 th edition on #grassroots #frugal #innovations for & from communities jan 2025 IIM Ahmedabad GIAN SRISTI [email protected]

An mRNAvaccine hub in South Africa, hailed as a “decolonial aspiration,” and the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator are poised to create a sustainable vaccine manufacturing industry in Africa science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Ben Phillips

"At that time, everyone was in complete disbelief that we were talking about doing AI in Tunisia. There was almost no startup ecosystem in the country, and building an AI startup seemed like a tall order" restofworld.org/2024/instadeep…

Fixing the foundations: improving government skills geoffmulgan.com/post/can-we-af… by Geoff Mulgan UK focused, but with broader lessons

Really enjoyed this Joshua Blumenstock lecture on real-time monitoring of welfare, particularly the deep dive on Togo, the emphasis on trade-offs for policymakers, & focus on frontier research worldbank.org/en/events/2024…

The state of learning in government apolitical.co/pages/state-of…

Cape Town launched its data strategy investcapetown.com/news-articles/…