Hackers can disrupt local government services, like this library in Willmar, Texas. The town suffered a cyberattack in August 2019.
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Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
With Russia poised to launch cyberattacks on US targets, many local governments find themselves without the staff or resources to even recognize when they’re under attack.
The Lagos State government recently approved some private health facilities to administer COVID-19 vaccines in the state.
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‘Contracting out’ government functions for delivery by the private sector has become the standard way of doing things across all levels of government in Australia.
There’s a growing push among businesses, including the finance sector, to protect the climate and nature.
Congress workers in Beawar burn effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 29 2021 during a protest against the government’s farming reforms measures and riots.
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The Trump administration is preparing to shift billions in veterans’ health care spending to private providers. Research suggests privatizing essential services comes with a social cost.
Rice fields in Madagascar. There is a project in the country to increase climate resilience in the rice sector.
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Public sector corruption is a major challenge to doing business in Africa and players are mostly ill-equipped to deal with it. Business schools can teach the skills to tackle it.
Promoting mechanisation for small scale farmers in Africa is proving incredibly difficult.
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Mechanisation of agricultural activity can help many African countries unlock underutilised agricultural potential. But there are serious obstacles which must be removed.
The ministerial task team’s report presents a jaundiced view of an important organisation that’s opened the doors of higher education to many who would otherwise have been closed out.
Not exactly a sustainability agenda.
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Trump has promised to abolish Obama’s Clean Power Plan and back out of the Paris climate accord. But business could become a key firewall that won’t let Obama’s sustainability legacy die.
Australian governments should support the private sector to develop urban rail projects, based on examples from the US.
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Australia produces thousands of PhD graduates every year but many will find it hard to secure a university career. So we should do more to help them consider a career outside of academia.
When brains are able to go where their interests lie, everyone benefits.
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Professors in dynamic tech fields won’t stay in academia for three or four decades. The best scientists in the world should have the freedom to pursue their careers as they choose.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget fell short on cost-cutting details.
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The budget showed some sense of urgency but still fell short on implementation plans. There should have been more, particularly details on cost-cutting initiatives.
Dana and David Dornsife Professor of Psychology and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences