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What is the UN doing with your data?

If you allow another country to gain access to really critical data about your society, over time that will erode your sovereignty, you no longer have control over that data. MI6 chief Richard Moore to BBC News (30 November 2021). “China has made economic espionage and stealing others’ work and ideas a central component of […]

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Affordable Space Programmes Becoming Part Of South’s Development

By David South, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions SOUTH-SOUTH CASE STUDY Space: the final frontier. At least that was how heading off into the stars was portrayed in cult television and film series Star Trek. While many countries are working to raise living standards and eradicate poverty on earth, some are also looking to space for solutions to […]

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China Looking to Lead on Robot Innovation

By David South, Development Challenges, South-South Solutions SOUTH-SOUTH CASE STUDY Since the 1950s, science fiction has been telling the world we will soon be living with robots. While robots have emerged, they have been mostly kept to heavy industry, where machines can perform dangerous, hot and unpleasant repetitive tasks to a high standard. But China is pioneering […]