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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. Orajaka says his off-grid system of the first of its kind developed and implemented in Nigeria. The IEEE member is GVE’s chief executive.

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Study estimates ~4M children worldwide develop asthma each year because of NO2 air pollution

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About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) air pollution, according to an open-access study published in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH).

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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. After she graduated, she continued her membership and started volunteering for IEEE Smart Village in 2019.

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Tesla Bot to address human labor shortage in the future

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like Nigeria, which has a replacement rate of 5.4. For instance, Nigeria’s current fertility rate decreased from 6.35 in the ’60s to its current rate in 2019. Some parts of the globe have fertility rates higher than 2.1, However, births are trending on a decline. Experts believe declining birth rates could slow economic growth.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. Andreas Goldthau, Kirsten Westphal, Morgan Bazilian & Michael Bradshaw (2019) “Model and manage the changing geopolitics of energy” Nature 569, 29-31 doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-01312-5. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait might, and should be encouraged to do so. —Goldthau et al.

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