A $1.2 Billion Warning — DR Congo Cancels Its National Biometric ID Contract Over Cost and Governance Concerns
DR Congo's ONIP cancelled a $1.2 billion biometric ID contract with Idemia and Afritech — over triple its $360 million estimate — …
DR Congo's ONIP cancelled a $1.2 billion biometric ID contract with Idemia and Afritech — over triple its $360 million estimate — …
Florida's Marion County used a $260,000 state workforce grant to open an Artificial Intelligence Foundations career-and-technical-education track at the newly opened South …
A 12-week, GP-referred outdoor walking/climbing programme by The Outdoor Partnership in North Wales showed £4.37–£5.36 of social return per £1 invested in …
At a February 2025 school science fair in Bangui, a Central African Republic secondary student built "IACG," an interactive AI quiz-tutor, while …
Zambia's Ministry of Technology and Science signed a March 2026 MoU with Cambridge-linked Obrizum Group to pilot an AI platform that analyses …
A Yale MBA student was suspended for a year after GPTZero flagged his no-internet exam as AI-written; his federal lawsuit alleges national-origin …
Canaima National Park protects the Caroní headwaters feeding Venezuela's Guri dam (near half its power), but FAO, CSIS and Mongabay document ~22,000 …
Purdue's Course Signals combined demographics, prior grades and course activity into a red/yellow/green risk light. Purdue claimed a 21.48-point graduation-rate boost, but …
Since 2010, France's CNAF has scored roughly 32 million people in benefit households from 0 to 1 for fraud-control targeting. Lighthouse Reports/Le …
Peer-reviewed satellite analysis of 182 Human-Induced Regeneration carbon-credit projects (~30% of Australia's carbon credits, ~AUD 300m) found canopy-cover gains matching untreated land, …
Kosovo's capital protected the roughly 1,126-hectare Gërmia forest as a Regional Nature Park in 1987; a 2021 contingent-valuation survey of visitors found …
The Institut Universitaire de Technologie Industrielle at the University of Djibouti opened applications in 2025 for the Master en Intelligence Artificielle et …
Ethiopia's PM office greened stretches of Addis Ababa's Akaki and Sheger riverbanks, planting a 50-hectare Entoto-area park in Phase 1 (2019-20, ~2.5bn …
Kenya's Northern Rangelands Trust certified soil-carbon credits across 1.9M hectares of rangeland; when validators found grazing records didn't match satellite vegetation data, …
Dhaka North City Corporation offers a 10% property-tax rebate for households maintaining rooftop gardens, and surveys count over 30,000 rooftop gardens across …
Seoul tracked urban forest inside residential “living spheres” rising 6.53% (per-capita +11.59%) from 2021-2024; Korea's forest science institute separately valued the resulting …
Indonesian law has required Jakarta to keep 30% of its area as green open space since 2007. Nearly two decades on, official …
Two U.S.-funded biometric databases built to modernise Afghan public administration — a $38m payroll system and a national ID system that once …
Since 1998, Drexel University and Equatorial Guinea's national university have monitored primates and nesting leatherback turtles on Bioko Island. Satellite tracking (2023) …
Kenya's Mombasa–Nairobi railway crosses unfenced Tsavo on an embankment with 141 crossing structures; a 2022 peer-reviewed study found real but uneven wildlife …
Mexico City turned over 1,000 elevated-highway pillars into vertical gardens using closed-loop rainwater irrigation, but its founder and the city itself now …
After the 2020 earthquake, Zagreb used rebuild funds to heat-map city blocks with the University of Zagreb, plant 1,500 trees (mostly at …
Botswana's HRDC, with the University of Botswana's UniPOD, BIUST, BITRI and the ITU, ran a May 2025 pre-launch pilot of robotics and …
After MagicSchool AI's companion chatbot "Raina" appeared on student iPads, 1,100+ Bend-La Pine parents petitioned the Oregon district; the vendor retired the …
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