"Impressive mobile phone ownership rates, yet continued inequality" voxdev.org/topic/unders...

The goal of the KMASS program is to deliver user specific knowledge “nuggets” that are useful for a current task—whether the knowledge is requested or not by the user—exactly when needed, while avoiding irrelevant information www.darpa.mil/research/pro...

Rather than treating symptoms one heatwave at a time, Athens is reframing heat as a systemic urban challenge — one that cuts across housing, health, planning, and social policy apolitical.co/solution-art...

This paper argues for moving beyond simple quantification toward richer expressions of uncertainty essential for integrating AI in professional work academic.oup.com/rssdat/artic...

Everything old is urgent again: local economic development 101 www.brookings.edu/articles/eco... Why land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive economic development

Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...

"Our mission remains clear: to normalize failure, negative and null results, and to question incentives that distort knowledge production" blog.trialanderror.org/trial-and-er...

[Oh well...] Agentic brains and ‘digital gardeners’: How one CEO runs his AI office www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

City Imaginarium undpeurasia.exposure.co/cityimaginar...

"Our mission remains clear: to normalize failure, negative and null results, and to question incentives that distort knowledge production" blog.trialanderror.org/trial-and-er...

A new digital exhibition focused on failure in science museumoffailure.com/exhibitions/...

As the world looks to COP30 this month, we’ve been thinking about how hard it can be to truly care about climate change when the conversations around it often feel distant. Yet, we feel its effects daily—the days are unbearably hot, the nights less cool, and the weather more unpredictable. (1/7)🧵

A prisoner in the Arizona State Prison system decided to reconnect with his Welsh heritage by studying the Welsh language. Now he leads a group of inmates who are independently studying endangered, ancient, and vulnerable languages—Welsh, Brittonic, Assyrian, Old Norse, Taíno, Nahuatl, and Guosa.

The future care landscape in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam investinginwomen.asia/knowledge/fu...

New flavours of technosolutionism www.noemamag.com/the-infrastr...

Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...

"One thing with polar bears that we learned along the way is they're sort of built to evade radar, in large part due to their fur" weather.com/news/news/20...

Everything old is urgent again: local economic development 101 www.brookings.edu/articles/eco... Why land use tools should be upgraded to promote more inclusive economic development

Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One of the most interesting experiments in funding systemic transformations regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/join-us/fund...

An institutional architecture focusing on societies’ ability to respond to tipping elements: urgent, nonlinear, irreversible, climate and ecological change tial.org/news/interch...

It’s a super quick, 5-minute application - no reports, no nonsense. We trust you to spend it on something boring that your organisation actually needs www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk/boring-fund

“The idea of Resilio is to find the communities, find what they're already doing to support themselves and get behind it" www.thenationalnews.com/news/uae/202...

“Language data flaring” — paralleling gas flaring — captures the systemic neglect and poor management of African language data leading to data undercollection, poor storage and limited use in AI www.cigionline.org/publications...

“You must collect things for reasons you don’t yet understand.” Those who preserve things can never quite know how they’ll be used www.noemamag.com/the-ark-buil...

Like the Biblical Noah loading pairs of animals onto his ark, scientists and archivists are salvaging fragile bits of our world that are at risk of disappearing forever www.noemamag.com/the-ark-buil...

This is the “New Washington Dissensus” and it treats cooperation as a transactional instrument of national interest, ties assistance to migration control and ideological alignment, and questions the legitimacy of solidarity as a guiding norm www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/06/11/2...

"A first-of-its-kind, participatory, real-time platform where grassroots communities can document their economic and non-economic losses and damages from climate change" devpolicy.org/new-tool-cap...

"A paper published in 2020 by IMF economist Mikhail Gorbanev, seems to confirm Chizhevky’s theory of a correlation between solar activity and major revolutionary events" we-make-money-not-art.com/comrade-sun-...

"Only one in 10 believes the civil service is innovative" (or accessible) www.ipsos.com/en-uk/30-yea...

How heatwaves increase nighttime light intensity in hyperdense cities of the Global South royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

[Hmm] We leverage computer vision techniques to analyze physical walking distances between individuals in public spaces as a proxy for societal divisions and, by extension, political polarizations arxiv.org/html/2511.03...

[Work with what you have, Paris version] "The unusual plan aims to restore tombs that have fallen into disrepair, while also giving Paris residents a rare opportunity to secure one of the sought-after plots" edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/t...

"The facilities on average offer about 90 positions, and some have as few as 20. Most of the positions are in security and cleaning" restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...

"These unique pages from the history of our environment will disappear forever, with no possibility for future generations to study them" www.ice-memory.org

CityMetrics brings together more than 40 key indicators across themes such as flooding, heat, air quality, biodiversity, proximity to services - providing actionable insights and comparisons between over 60 cities worldwide www.citymetrics.wri.org

Wonderful to start the day talking to the fab people behind this brave experiment to tackle school abandonment in Japan ssir.org/articles/ent...

Although a lot of attention has been paid to reproducibility as a way to evaluate the quality of scientific results, a more productive approach would be to assess sources of uncertainty issues.org/confidence-s...

Evolution by its nature takes time. With microbes we’ve been able to condense it down to more manageable timescales worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ev...

"In a world increasingly content to outsource thinking to algorithms, preserving the craft of humanistic expression will itself become an act of defiance. Our task is not to outperform the machine, but to sound nothing like it" www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... @benpatrickwill.bsky.social

That's in 2h! Join this no-BS discussion on the role and implications of algorithmic systems in the humanitarian sector. All attendees can engage with us in two parallel open room sessions where you'll be able to chat about AI and innovation, or procurement of AI @accessnow.org @chaberlin.org

"The death of the 20th century's greatest development policy" blog.karthiktadepalli.com/p/tech-trans... Technology transfer agreements powered the most successful industrialization stories of the 20th century. But they required conditions that no longer exist

"While much of Sora’s output feels mundane, even funny, the truth is that each fabricated bodycam clip, each synthetic CCTV feed.. erodes our collective confidence. This is part of an epistemic crisis, the fracture of a shared, verifiable reality" www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...

Underlying the emergence of DPI are definitional ambiguities about what constitutes the public, who defines it, and what its goals are www.techpolicy.press/inclusive-di...

"Employees conspicuously use AI tools not because they enhance productivity, but because the corporate culture demands it" www.sixthtone.com/news/1017809

A notable example is a ‘personal initiative’ training in Togo, which had 3 times the impact of a standard training programme, with profits increasing by 30% over two years voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

"How we choose to act now will determine whether our shared basis for reality — what we see and hear — remains trustworthy." Generative video's threat to visual truth and what we can do about it, and why concerted action matters now, in @transformernews.ai www.transformernews.ai/p/sora-is-he...

[Hmmmm] Brazil is pioneering an open-source AI system that automatically analyzes citizen feedback, generates comprehensive reports, and tracks which suggestions made it into final policies rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/global-...

Really enjoyed this session on democratic public infrastructure and the choices South Africa is making in the design of its DPI www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG_M...

"Picture this: a government primary school in Ethiopia consistently outperforms the school just down the road, despite having the same number of teachers and learning materials, and a similar quality of facilities" www.unicef.org/innocenti/st...