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Nairobi Mall Attack Inspires Two Online Tools for Emergencies

On September 21, 2013, a group of suspected al-Shabab militants stormed Westgate mall in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, killing at least 61 people, six security personnel and injuring hundreds of innocent men, women and ...
by Ndesanjo Macha
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When Will Robots Replace Humans Across Global Industries?

You may not know Hon Hai, but it is to produce 70% of all iPhones 6. It also operates the largest factories on Earth. Terry Gou, founder and chairman, based his success on cheap labor costs as well as audacious merging strategi...
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We Must See Africa Differently

Africa is no longer a collection of failed states beset by regional conflict. A fast growing middle class working white-collar jobs in smart office blocks are changing the continents skyline and the socio-economic reality on t...
by Robert Scott
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The City 2050

As part of the Tomorrow’s Cities season the BBC is looking at how our lives will be changed by technology in the future. Delivery drones, farmscrapers and robo-taxis, is this what our future world looks like? Experts pred...
by Nicky Armstrong
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Environment

Information Revolution And Climate Action: A Marriage With A Promise?

On September 23, 2014, as world leaders, corporations and other actors at the UN New York headquarters gave pledges on how they plan to address the challenge of climate change, climate-oriented blogs and social media platforms...
by Kennedy Mbeva
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Health

The Future Of Medicine: How Telemedicine Could Combat Epidemics

The phrase “six degrees of separation” has its roots in the 1969 small-world experiment of Stanley Milgram. He distributed packages to citizens in Omaha and gave them only the most skeletal information about the unknown rec...
by Brandon Engel
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