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Date Time Positive Tech Solutions will forge recovery: Global Technology Governance Summit Concludes More than 2,000 leaders from 125 countries gathered to shape the trajectory of the Fourth Industrial Revolution Business leaders emphasized the importance of positive solutions that technology can bring to societal, climate and equity issues The summit’s conclusions will feed into platforms, initiatives, and projects for the upcoming Special Annual Meeting 2021 in Singapore For more information, visit www.weforum.org. Share on social media using the hashtag #GTGS21 Tokyo, Japan, 8 April 2021...

This was the Met’s George Floyd moment. Pictures of police officers pinning a young woman to the ground during a peaceful protest have been beamed round the world on TV and social media. No one died, fortunately, but I defy anybody to look at those disgusting images without being overwhelmed by a stomach-churning sense of revulsion. What the hell were they thinking? Who authorised this heavy-handed brutality? Does the Commissioner of the Met really think this is a legitimate way for her subordinates to behave? At the risk of coming over all Chris and Glenn from Squeeze, we never thought thi...

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DU announces Memorandum of Common Purpose with MRCTI Ammoland Inc. Posted on IMG Ducks Unlimited U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Today, Ducks Unlimited and the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative (MRCTI) signed a Memorandum of Common Purpose, signaling our shared goal to protect and restore wetlands and riparian habitats along the Mississippi River for the benefit of migrating waterfowl and Mississippi River communities. One of America’s largest expanses of wetlands, the Mississippi River Valley (MRV) is a vital migration corridor for 40% of North America’s waterfowl and 60% of it...

Montage by Niko Yaitanes/ Harvard Magazine; images by Unsplash.  Several months before the invasion of the United States Capitol threw the nation’s seat of legislative power into peril, the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s survey on civic knowledge found that barely half of American adults can name all three branches of government, and 20 percent cannot name any rights protected by the First Amendment. Remarkably, these figures constitute  improvements on the results of the previous 15 years of this annual survey. Even more troubling, the separate World Values Survey has found that ...