Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)

In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aerospace engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those living in remote villages or impoverished urban areas do not have access to education. or very high quality medical care. They believed that with a faster …

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Conflict Management in Teams: For Military and Government

Despite the hierarchical electricity systems withinside the army and government, as they attain extra senior levels, leaders mechanically perform in peer-to-peer groups. These environments require the cappotential to barter complicated organization dynamics-a talent which regularly is going undeveloped in regular hierarchies. Groups that be successful through the years have 3 matters in common: (1) they …

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Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China

For the past several decades, Australia has grappled with the benefits and costs of repeated inflation from the mining boom, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. However, between 1996 and 2007, Australia had most of these problems under control and grew at an impressive rate to become one of …

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Google and Project Maven (A): Big Tech, Government and the AI Arms Race

In April 2018, after it emerged that Google was working with the US Department of Defense on the Maven project, more than 3,000 employees signed an internal memorandum urging CEO Sundar Pichai to (a) cancel the project. immediately and (b) enforce a policy that the company would never build war technology. Project Maven was launched …

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Turnaround of Food and Civil Supplies Department in Telangana Government

CV Anand, a senior officer in the Indian Police Service (IPS), was appointed by the Chief Minister, the highest political executive in the state, to head the department of food and civil services in the state of Telangana in India. As it was a matter of decision-making and policy implementation regarding the procurement and processing …

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South Africa: A Fractured Rainbow?

Twenty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa’s democracy continues, albeit with problems. A tripartite coalition of the African National Congress, the trade unions and the Communist Party still controls the political system, but with diminishing economic results and authority. The economy has grown 1.4% annually since 2010 and unemployment is 25%. Several national …

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Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)

In 2020, when the COVID19 pandemic spread around the world, Apple and Google worked together to develop a contact tracing application that collects information about users infected with the disease and notifies those with whom they have been in contact. While the Apple / Google app would keep infection and contact information secret, some governments …

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