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GIJ LEADS GLOBAL CONVERSATION ON TWITTER AND THE AFRICAN FUTURE
April 30, 2021
The Directorate of Research, Innovation and Development (DRID) of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) will today, hold a panel discussion on, “Twitter and the African Future: Rethinking Digital opportunities and challenges.”
The discussion which would be held online through Zoom would have four speakers with diverse technological backgrounds and African studies speak to the subject.
The panelists include Dr Ezer Osei Yeboah-Boateng, the Dean Faculty of Computing and Information Systems (FoCIS) at the Ghana Communication Technology University, and Foster Akugri, Founder and President of the Hacklab Foundation (Focal Twitter Partner in Ghana).
Does culture influence how often countries use behavioural strategies to combat cannabis consumption? Friday, 30 April 2021
More needs to be learned about what drives behavioural strategies used by different cultures to combat cannabis consumption, intoxication and related harms to enhance the protection of those who use the drug, a U.S. study suggests.
Researchers at the University of New Mexico explored the cannabis protective behavioural strategies (PBS) used by five different countries namely the U.S., Argentina, Uruguay, Spain and the Netherlands by seeking input from 1,175 colleges students from those jurisdictions who reported past-month weed use.
Of the five countries considered, recreational cannabis has been legalized in Uruguay and about a third of the states in the U.S., as well as been decriminalized for personal use in specific locations in the Netherlands, Spain and Argentina, with the last also permitting growing medical weed at home.
How the pandemic exposed the water issues for southwestern tribes
Lack of potable water drove high Covid-19 rates in Native American communities, which helped get better representation in upcoming negotiations about Colorado River water.
Nancy Bitsue, an elderly member of the Navajo Nation, receives her monthly water delivery in the town of Thoreau on June 6, 2019 in Thoreau, New Mexico. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
By Judy Fahys | Inside Climate News
| April 30, 2021, 8:14 p.m. | Updated: 9:42 p.m.
While the world watched in horror as refrigerator trailers collected the bodies of Covid-19 victims in New York City, the suffering of Native American people was almost invisible.