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This Community-Run Internet is Bridging the Digital Divide

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There are many reasons for the divide, including affordability, the lack of digital literacy, and the absence of relevant content and services in local languages. Last year the IEEE Future Networks initiative ran the inaugural IEEE Connecting the Unconnected Challenge to seek out innovative projects and ideas aimed at increasing connectivity.

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Launch of the European COCATE CO2 Transport Project for Medium-Size Emitters

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The European research project COCATE, just being signed and starting in January 2010, tackles the problems of rolling out a shared transportation infrastructure capable of connecting geological storage sites with various medium size CO 2 -emitting industrial facilities located within a close geographical proximity. million (US$6.6

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Mercedes-Benz introduces its mid-size pickup truck: the X-Class leans on diesel

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At the beginning of 2018 South Africa, Australia and New Zealand will follow, and at the beginning of 2019 Argentina and Brazil. Production for the markets in Europe, Australia and South Africa will start at the Nissan plant in Barcelona, Spain, in 2017. Connectivity. Live Traffic Information.

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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However, these innovations are too rarely linked and optimized in a way that can provide a convenient, practical, affordable and sustainable door-to-door trip for the user. —“Connecting (And Transforming) The Future Of Transportation”. We have found globally that this [connection] is needed. The world is urbanizing.

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Study recommends $10B/year US federal investment in energy RD&D and a substantial price on carbon emissions; leveraging the national labs and encouraging the private sector for a clean energy future

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Despite current deficits, the United States cannot afford to forego the long-term investments that will improve its competitiveness in this multi-trillion-dollar market and its national security, while reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental hazards.

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EV Charging: A Look at the International Landscape

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South Africa, the European Union and the U.S. They have large working classes that need affordable transportation which may well result in Asia having the largest EV market share. Regardless of what kind of property you own or the scale of your project, EV Connect has the resources to help realize your goals.

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BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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With a functioning AfCFTA, the DRC can receive other upstream mineral inputs needed for lithium-ion batteries—such as manganese from, say, South Africa and Madagascar, copper from Zambia, graphite from Mozambique and Tanzania, phosphate from Morocco, and lithium from Zimbabwe, to name but a few.

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