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Africa is a 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇪🇺 battleground to secure supply chains. To avoid replicating past extractive models, this report urges African nations to leverage this competition to anchor regional industrial clusters and move beyond raw material exports. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Climate change may make Africa's droughts longer and more intense, a challenge to the continent's policymakers. In response, a council of African water ministers has released a landmark framework report: Africa Water Vision 2063 and Policy. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Banning kids from social media is in vogue but what about GenAI? EU Kids Online has just released a report which surveyed GenAI use by 25k EU children. It's the first international evidence to inform child-centred AI policy and practice. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

North America has an elevator problem. This matters for aging societies with expensive housing. Fantastically clear video coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Is a "Data Winter" - a period of increasing enclosure of public-interest data - coming? Will lack of transparency stifle scientific discovery and evidence-based policymaking precisely when society needs them most? #OpenData coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Open Data by Default is the weakest link in data policy. But it's what the OECD doesn't say that might matter the most b/c the USA failed to complete the survey. In the context of disappearing US federal datasets, is this failure a message in itself? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

A landmark Australian Human Rights Commission study of 76,000 students/staff reveals pervasive racism, antisemitism, & Islamophobia in unis. 🇦🇺
The report warns of a failed "duty of care" and calls for a national, systemic shift to fix ingrained discrimination. 🏛️ #HigherEd coilink.org/20.500.1259...

New GFI data: 25% of Mexico-US imports are misinvoiced. Paradox alert: using tariffs to fix this might backfire, pushing trade further into the "shadows" to evade new duties. Vital evidence for anyone tracking the 2026 USMCA review. 🚢 #USMCA coilink.org/20.500.1259...

AI has an Asian American problem. A new report finds #AANHPI communities are blocked from policy roles while bearing the brunt of #AI harms—from deepfake scams to detectors that flag non-native English 97% of the time. Evidence in community voices from Houston to Honolulu. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

New @pewresearch.org data on religious diversity:
🇸🇬 Singapore is #1
Insight: In almost every nation, one group forms a majority. Only 10 countries have two groups of roughly equal size. Diversity is the exception, not the rule.
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The US electorate at breaking point ahead of #midterms? New from JHU: Older voters fear for election integrity & hate the 'other side'; younger ones want to scrap the system entirely. Most alarming? A minority of young men now justify political violence for reform. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

If you want to understand why voters are looking beyond traditional parties, look no further than this illuminating study from @resolutionfoundation.org of those who comprise the poorer half of a developed nation. Lessons here for other countries. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

If the UK creative industries contribute £124.6 billion and employ 2.4 million people and the AI sector is worth £11.8 billion employing 86,000, why does UK government policy treats the latter as the priority? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

A new @IPPR.org report argues that AI poses a more fundamental threat to news economics than search or social media ever did because AI news summaries in search are good enough for most. But if AI bankrupts journalism, from where will AI get new news? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

How AI-ready is your government? Oxford Analytics 2025 Readiness Index tells you what you need to know. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

The International AI Safety Report, led by Yoshua Bengio, is a stark reminder of the chasm between AI's increasing capability and society's capacity to keep real-world deployments safe. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

A new report from @oecd-ocde.bsky.social OECD suggests that while AI can help students with their assignments, its use risks a 17% underperformance in exams. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Economists should read this report. In it, climatologists are unambiguous: today's economic models aren't capturing what matters most - cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

@article19.bsky.social Article 19's new report Tightening the Net: China’s infrastructure of oppression in Iran is a comprehensive analysis and in-depth examination of China’s role in the expansion of digital repression in Iran. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Three successive storms have brought record rainfall and flooding to the Iberian peninsula and Morocco. To understand why we're going to be both wetter and drier we thoroughly recommend this keynote by oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf at last year's Holcim Foundation Forum. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Climatologists to economists: It's going to be much rougher than you think. In this report, climatologists are unambiguous: today's economic models aren't capturing what matters most - cascading failures and compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Vance's "wrecking ball" speech at the '25 Munich Security Conference ended the post-WWII order. So where are we today? A good place to start is the newly released 2026 Munich Security Report, "Under Destruction". coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Peer review in the age of AI. A paper by a group of social science editors, addresses the increasing strain on academic peer review and publishing due to rising submission rates and the proliferation of Large Language Models (LLMs). coilink.org/20.500.1259...

People in liberal democracies think that politicians are useless, so it's no surprise they are is looking to the extremes. To win back trust, FGF says governments must redefine power distribution and reform the state to wield its authority effectively. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

A new paper from the EIB shows that AI has already boosted productivity by 4% without firms shedding staff. AI-adopting firms are more innovative, and their workers earn higher wages. But the benefits are concentrated in medium and large firms. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Polluters pay, economy wins
A win-win policy? Combine a polluter pays levy with a fair share levy on carbon energy and you'll get carbon abatement with tax revenues to compensate households and fund investments in green industries and social policies. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Despite all the chatter about peace prizes, an extensive new report reminds us that 23 recent conflicts have killed 100,000+ civilians, with widespread torture and rape too. Is international humanitarian law at breaking point? coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Singapore's governance model for agentic AI is one of the first government frameworks to deal directly with AI systems that can plan, act, adapt, and interact with other systems. It signals a shift from high-level principles to engineered system design. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

While support for open data principles is strong (80%), there is declining support for open data mandates, especially in Australia and the USA because researchers still think they're not getting sufficient recognition and credit. coilink.org/20.500.1259...

Snow on a ploughed field in the Vexin, Monneville, north of Paris.

The snow made this moment quieter, brighter, colder