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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year. Last year, the National Police archive was discovered, with an estimated 80 million pages of documents. PDH and Benetech are getting ready for the next phase of this ground-breaking work.

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From a Millennial: Nobody Wants to Hear Your Stories. We Want to See Them.

Connection Cafe

National Library of Medicine put the average 2013 attention span at 8 seconds. Having spent several months in Southern Sudan, I know the struggles that people have to find clean drinking water. Instagram is in the testing phase of this program, but the results have gone above and beyond what was anticipated. Let that sink in.

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This is what your life will be like when the world hits a dangerous climate tipping point

Fast Company Tech

Other hard-hit countries will include Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sudan, and Niger. For many low-lying island nations , the challenge of higher seas and more intense tropical storms will be existential. The Arctic is predicted to be practically ice-free during summertime.

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Using GPT-3.5-Turbo and GPT-4 to Apply Text-defined Data Quality Checks on Humanitarian Datasets

Towards Data Science

Category 'Geography & Infrastructure : Administrative Divisions' is defined as: Vector geographic data describing the sub-national administrative divisions of a location, usually a country, including the names and unique identifiers, usually p-codes, of each administrative division.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things. Webby Award and Webby People’s Voice Award for Magazine : National Geographic. Webby People’s Voice Award for Law : Urban Justice Center by Superunion. Disruptors.

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