Reports it took 90 days for africa to reach 100000 corona virus infections and only 19 passed the 200000 mark the World Health Organization says infections in africa are now spreading fast from urban to Rural Communities those areas dont have adequate access to health care or awareness of preventive measures one of the Biggest Challenges we face in the response continues to be the real ability of supplies. And this is due to the disruptions in the Global Supply chain. The un has a supply Chain Task Force and other mechanisms i am pleased to address these shortages including work done by the African Union and more than 8000000 diagnostic supplies and 200000000 my terms of protective equipment in the pipeline to be a Program Countries south africa algeria and campbell and all the continents hotspots the Global Health but he wants countries must act fast on implementing strong measures and in forcing social distancing but already many nations in africa are opening their economies with mor
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Nine companies, the same companies that control the lions share of patents, that of an extraordinary of money that are able to attract the best talent because of the best food, you know, that have the relationships with universities here it doesnt mean there are not other Companies Like salesforce or nvidia over for not doing Amazing Things but its through these Nine Companies that Everything Else flows. The entire ai ecosystem in some way or another touches these nine. In addition to all of the things i just mentioned, they are also building the frameworks and the custom silicone chips and they have the code bases. All roads lead to these Nine Companies, and the challenge that i have is that if its the case that Artificial Intelligence is not just being built to create a better microwave, although thats cool, but instead to optimize our lives using data as currency, what does it mean when we relegate that are just a handful of companies and handful of people working at these companies
Roma manual was the mayor of chicago and also the white house chief of staff. At amazon they will be interviewed by nikki raleigh who works for the wall street journal. Please welcome them. Welcome beth, welcome ron, will have a couple of lets bring everybody ram up to speed. The 700 Million Dollars that amazon plans to spend to give us a really quick overview and how thats gonna. Work well youve got the basic facts, right 100,000 workers over the next six years, we are really excited about, this and its actually an abrogation of a whole series of upscaling programs. Things starting with our Fulfillment Center workers, so our frontline workers we will give them a career choice, where we prepay before they even start their classes, 95 of to wish in and books for up to three 80,000 a year, so they can learn skills, and feels like medical technology, bookkeeping, other tech fields, things that are actually going to train there for jobs outside of amazon. Very unique program that we have,
The house floor. Watch live coverage of house rules, tuesday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan3. Watch online or listen live with the free cspan radio app. Next, former chicago mayor rahm emanuel and amazon Senior Vice President talk about Workforce Development issues. From the annual wall street journal ceo council meeting, this is 30 minutes. Rahm emanuel was the mayor of chicago between 2011 and 2019, also former white house chief of staff. They will be interviewed by my colleague who see at her editor live journalism as the wall street journal. Please welcome them. [applause] to do a couple of case studies and we have a short amount of time. Quickly, lets bring everybody up to speed. First, most people here, the headlines about the 700 mu dollars amazon plans to spend in the next few years. Give us a quick overview on how that works. 700 million, 100 thousand workers over the next six years. Its an aggregation of different upscaling programs. Our frontline workers, we give them a pro