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Women, Girls, Education and Global Health: Interview with Carinne Brody

Have Fun - Do Good

She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India.

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Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just look at what’s happening in Somalia right now.) Shonali Burke runs an agency of one and is adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University. They raise funds and awareness in the United States for the lifesaving work that more than 6,000 staffers of Geneva-based UNHCR undertake for refugees around the world, 24/7.

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The AI oracle of Delphi uses the wisdom of Reddit to offer dubious moral advice

The Verge

It has clear biases, telling you that America is “ good ” and that Somalia is “ dangerous ”; and it’s amenable to special pleading, noting that eating babies is “okay” as long as you are “really, really hungry.” Ask Delphi isn’t impeachable, though: it’s attracting attention mostly because of its many moral missteps and odd judgements.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

For instance, during the recent famine in Somalia, how to keep humanitarian aid confined to starving people away from the Al-Shabab militant group ? Global University of Islamic Finance , in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is working on developing Islamic oriented socially conscious investing in cooperation with Sharia law.

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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

n - Category 'Health & Education : Education Facilities' is defined as: Vector data or tabular data with coordinates representing education facilities with some indication of the type of facility (school, university, etc.).n ' And prompt 2 … Does the following table from file.

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Scientists Investigating Patches of Ocean With Otherworldly Glow

Futurism

It is really hard to study something if you have no data about it," study lead author Justin Hudson, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University, said in a statement about the work. "To To this point, there is only one known photograph at sea level that came from a chance encounter by a yacht in 2019."

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Zootonic diseases to wildlife trade: Here’s how ecological disruptions threaten national security

Fast Company Tech

Illegal logging helps finance terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab in Somalia, where trade in charcoal has become a critical revenue source. Rod Schoonover is an adjunct professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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