New tech collabs for electoral accountability - the Meedan story

Dima is the head of programs at Meedan, a tech non-profit that aims to make information more reliable and accessible through open-source AI software that can fact-check in real time. Dima's team focuses on three major verticals: elections, crises & emergencies, and safe and inclusive media ecosystems. This year, they were won the 2024 Skoll Innovation Award for their work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47UwzDuGsG8

Rare Earths, Meteorites and Magnets

Rare-earth elements are not necessarily rare, but are found only in low-concentration deposits and are difficult to extract. They are used (at low concentrations) in many technologies: flat-panel displays, LED lights, camera lenses, catalytic converters, disc-drives, batteries, and many more. Now, the largest use is in permanent magnets, which are used in electric motors and generators. With the aim towards ‘zero carbon’ and electrification, manifest in the proliferation of electric cars and wind turbines, the demand for permanent magnets has soared.

Inter-alliance Security Dilemmas: Korean Counterforce Systems and Their Effect on the Sino- American Nuclear Competition

Cold War strategic competition was dominated by the actions of the US and USSR. Their material preponderance, coupled with tightly integrated multilateral alliances systems in Europe, oriented competition around this central axis of competition. But the current environment is less centralized, characterized by cross-cutting alliances and interacting nuclear dyads. How has this changed the nature of nuclear competition? We assess this question by considering the inter-Korean competition and its effects outside the peninsula.

Open-Source Intelligence: what is it for, where did it come from and what is standing in its way?

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) is everywhere right now.   From the blue tick ‘journalists’ on the remnants of Twitter to boardrooms and the world’s battlefields.  Yet if the observer grabs any two OSINT examples or indeed any two OSINT practitioners, it is likely that they will get completely different answers to all of the questions in this seminar’s title.
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