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Airbus and LM Industries create mobility startup Neorizon; digital manufacturing

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Neorizon’s headquarters and microfactory will be built at Airbus’ Ludwig-Bölkow-Campus near Munich, Germany in conjunction with an Innovation Campus including a new Technical University of Munich Campus. —Benjamin Queisser, Neorizon CEO.

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Solutions for Providing Internet Access to Rural Areas

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The group has released a series of videotaped interviews with industry professionals, researchers, and policymakers working on challenges in Africa, India, Indonesia, and Mexico. Accelerating Africa’s Digital Transformation Through ICTs. Five videos are available: Designing a User-Centered Interface for Rural Communities.

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This Rwandan Engineer is Learning How to Manage Humanitarian Projects

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Thanks to a scholarship from IEEE Smart Village , she is now getting that education through the master’s degree program in development practice from Regis University , in Denver. Niyoyita, who attends classes remotely, is a process engineer at Africa Improved Foods , also in Kigali. She has worked there for more than four years.

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Baker Institute expert suggests assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed

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.: A Reader,” which was co-edited by Raphael Heffron and Gavin Little and published by Edinburgh University Press. But recently the countries of the Middle East and North Africa have become recognized as important centers of energy demand. —Jim Krane.

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Anglo American Platinum invests in Hydrogenious Technologies; liquid organic hydrogen carrier technology for H2 storage

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South Africa-based Anglo American Platinum , the world’s leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), has invested in the first close of the Series A financing round of Hydrogenious Technologies, a company developing liquid organic hydrogen carrier (LOHC) hydrogen storage technology. Click to enlarge. Resources.

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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference

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Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, managed to deliver an agreement after an extension to negotiations. Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. A Standing Committee is to keep an overview of climate finance in the context of the UNFCCC.

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China’s CNOOC to acquire Canada-based Nexen for $15.1B; offshore oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas

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Nexen has major positions in three of the world’s most significant conventional basins: the UK North Sea, Offshore West Africa and the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. The transaction will be funded by CNOOC Limited’s existing cash resources and external financing. It is the second-largest oil producer in the UK North Sea. OPTI Canada Inc.

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