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Proper mapping of MENA countries could generate billions of dollars: report 0 Comments Get daily business news from the region delivered straight to your inbox I agree to the terms and conditions SIGN UP Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Bahrain working to improve their geospatial infrastructure February 21, 2021 Countries across MENA could unlock billions of dollars in new revenue by improving their mapping services, according to a new report by the UK’s mapping agency Ordnance Survey (OS). Upgraded geospatial data would help nations in the region in fighting challenges such as population gr...
(Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division) As Encyclopedia Virginia director Peter Hedlund recently noted here on the EV blog, we are committed to revising existing entries to eliminate racial bias and better reflect new historical understandings of key moments in Virginia history. One such entry that needed revision was our entry on Woman Suffrage in Virginia, which failed to adequately note the contributions of Black women to the suffrage fight. As Brent Staples noted in the New York Times, white suffrage leaders intentionally obscured the contributions...
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