Global Majority Wikimedia Technology Priorities
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blog.wikimedia.org— Read about the priorities of the communities in the Global South and sign the Global Majority Wikimedia Technology Priorities manifesto
The Independent—What is ‘Global majority’ and why is it replacing ‘BAME’?. One acronym to describe people of Black, Asian, Indigenous or Latin ancestry is falling out of favour - we look at why
Phys.org—Identifying priorities to leverage smart digital technologies for sustainable crop production. Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms. Researchers from the PhenoRob Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bonn are working on driving forward the smart digitalization of agriculture and have now published a list of the research questions that will need to be tackled as a priority in the future. Their paper appears in the European Journal of...
Daily Mail—Global obesity deaths rise by 50 percent since 2000, major report shows. In the year 2000, high BMI was the 11th leading risk factor in the world for shortening a person's life. By 2021, it had jumped to the sixth spot.