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This hypercar is China’s first Belt and Road electric vehicle project

The Verge

And in some places, like Djibouti, China is attempting to do nearly all of the above. Byton once had its own global ambitions. China’s Belt and Road initiative is a massive effort to spin up infrastructure projects across Asia, Europe, and Africa that, in total, roughly trace the old Silk Road.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. Libya, Djibouti and Jordan have also granted restricted access to micro data to selected individuals and organizations.

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How To: Put Technology to Use (November 2008)

NTEN

Finally, if you're really into words, you should check out The Global Language Monitor , where you can learn that "obama" has entered the English language as a root, as in: obamacize, obamanomics, and (our favorite) obamarama. Let us know when you can make our office building appear to be somewhere, in, oh, let's say Djibouti. (No,