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The major blind spot in Bill Gates’s pandemic prevention plan

Vox

What the designation really pinpointed, said Stevano, was people who did what she calls “social reproduction work.” Working-class Americans died at staggering rates during the pandemic at least partly because these least protected and compensated people were disproportionately responsible for holding the social fabric together.

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Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: IBM Debate Series - What's.

Cloud Musings

Personal comments and insight on cloud computing related technologies and their use in the public sector to support net-centric operations. Sponsored by IBM, The Debate Series is an ongoing series of social video debates, held on Spreecast.com (a browser based social video site much like Google hangouts). NJVC Cloud Computing.

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CIO Bhavani Amirthalingam on driving change in the AI era

CIO Business Intelligence

Leaders must prioritize investments in data quality and governance. It’s essential to establish robust data governance frameworks that ensure data integrity, security, and compliance. As an analogy, think about how the internet, mobile, social, and cloud technologies have changed how we work and live over the last 25 years.

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Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards

The Verge

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. 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.

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List of the world’s top female futurists (Update #5)

Trends in the Living Networks

In an interview with Foresight for Development , Njonjo discusses the many benefits that foresight methodologies can bring to African governments, including “proactive policies and legislation”, “better solutions to complex problems”, “reducing the number of catastrophes”, and “better use of resources”. Reyhan Huseynova. Location: Azerbaijan.

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Rep. Pramila Jayapal on vaccine equity, misinformation, preparing for the next pandemic

GeekWire

as the federal government has disinvested from state public health departments, it’s been left to the states to really see whether or not they could come up with the resources. Shah: Often the headlines are about vaccines, therapeutics or healthcare, but social elements often drive real outcomes of health. In the U.S.,

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Mark Cuban on America’s future

The Verge

We’ve lost our form of government. But you don’t think that, I mean, on one timeline, Joe Biden is a creature of the government. There was a lot of social activism with the NBA. In the finals, every NBA player had a social message on the back of their jersey. I’ve seen the markets today. He doesn’t. You got through it.

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