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UK formally applies for TPP: Are Thailand, South Korea and China next?

Britain says the pact is a priority for the 'newly independent trading nation' The U.K. formally asked Monday to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership in a push to expand and deepen the country's trade links with the Asia-Pacific region after leaving the European Union. U.K. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss spoke…
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Smart City Sweden demonstrates solutions digitally during Corona

Travel restrictions due to the pandemic have made the visit platform Smart City Sweden work in new ways More than half of the world’s population is living in cities and that number is expected to increase to almost 70 % by 2050. At the same time, the world is facing great environmental challenges and cities…
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2020:Worst year in tourism history with 1billion fewer international arrivals

According to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, the collapse in international travel represents an estimated loss of USD 1.3 trillion in export revenues Global tourism suffered its worst year on record in 2020, with international arrivals dropping by 74% according to the latest data from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Destinations worldwide welcomed 1…
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RZD Technologies and Robin will create the first Russian marketplace for robotic software solutions

The development is carried out within the framework of the Cloud Factory of Software Robots project RZD Technologies (a subsidiary of RZD or Russian Railways), together with the Moscow developer Robin, will create the first Russian marketplace for robotic software solutions. The project is scheduled to launch by July. According to Pavel Borchenko, General Director…
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The Rockefeller Foundation announces grant to expand access to COVID-19 testing and tracing in Africa

This funding will support a broader effort to accelerate equitable access to testing technologies The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a new grant of US$12 million to the Africa Public Health Foundation to help expand the geographic coverage of testing and to strengthen contact tracing for COVID-19 in Africa through the Africa Centres for Disease Control…
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Australian IoT collective deploys LoRaWAN in Tasmania for cities, utilities, farmers

The partnership, announced six months ago, also involves 42-24, the IT and telecoms division of TasNetworks. Australian IoT networking company National Narrowband Network Co (NNNCo) has completed deployment of a LoRaWAN network in Tasmania in conjunction with local energy distribution utility TasNetworks. LoRaWAN gateways have been deployed on TasNetworks’ utility assets across the island state,…
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New Metropolis President elected

Wen Guohui, the mayor of Guangzhou has been unanimously elected as Metropolis president The Metropolis Board of Directors has approved a new mandate (2021-2023) with a rotating split presidency led in the first term by Wen Guohui, mayor of the People's Government of Guangzhou Municipality, and in the second term of the mandate by Claudia…
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Smart transformation in Iran (Part 1)

In several chapters we can see the impressive work done and the successes achieved The unprecedented rate of urban growth and the challenges that come with it, brought up the necessity for urban management to seek optimal solutions. Solutions that should be able to address all different aspects of urbanism, including sustainable development, education, energy,…
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Toxys, and Leiden University announce Licensing of ToxProfiler Technology for Animal-Free Chemical Safety Testing

Toxys will immediately commercialize and develop further the in vitro reporter technology for mechanistic toxicity testing to improve the human safety assessment of novel medicines, chemicals and cosmetic ingredients Toxis, Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Center have agreed immediately to commercialize and also develop further the ToxProfiler technology invented at the two institutions. ToxProfiler…
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New African Development Bank-GCA initiative will galvanize $25 billion to scale up African climate adaptation

The announcement came during the Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) 2021, hosted by the government of the Netherlands and the Global Center on Adaptation The AAAP, a joint initiative between the African Development Bank and the Global Center on Adaptation, is expected to scale up innovative and transformative actions on climate adaptation across Africa, Adesina said…

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