Our first speaker is joanne mcneil, author of lurking, the inaugural winner of the art foundations art writing award for an emerging writer, resident at ivy, Logan Nonfiction Program fellow and instructor. Our next speaker will be sorry. Hang on. Sorry. I had the video open on my computer and sending my own words back to me. It was very confusing. Our second speaker will be Charlton Mcilwain, author of black software, the internet and Racial Justice. The vice provost of faculty engagement at New York University and professor of Media Communication at nyu steinberg school, our final speaker is author of the new laws of robotics, Robert Citino from the Yale Information Society project. So take it away, joann. Im happy to be on this panel with two others i really appreciate and a topic im sure we have so much to say about. There is something of a history. There are many things to look at and representative of missed opportunities. I wanted to focus on ten or 12 years ago, the time of the
The pandemic to economic recovery. They are also expected to just gossip funding for this tradition of a vaccine to discuss funding for the distribution of a vaccine. Hello and thank you for joining us. We begin a new gada we begin in uganda. The president ial candidate and popstar has been released from jail. Has arrest sparked protests that killed at least 37 people. He was released on bail and hold charged with holding rallies likely to spread coronavirus, two months before the countrys president ial election. France 24 has more from kampala on the days developments. He has come home and is with his family. One more thing about that death toll from wednesday and thursdays protests. While authorities are saying 37 people have died, the hospital here, the National Referral hospital in kampala has said that total is closer to 49. They will not necessarily be getting numbers from across the country or even across all of kampala. They will not receive all of the casualties or casualty nu
In the mic . No. Without the mic . Also no. Alexis is the deputy cto of new york city and runs a policy experiment lab, trying to get vendors to compete for who can devise the best programs to improve social welfare of the citizens of new york. An adjunct professor of tech media and communications at Columbia University and spent a couple of decade studying the issues as a doctoral student and then as a member of the staff at the u. N. Mission of the state department, and also just speaking deeply about them which is so clear from the book, which i really admire. So quick round of applause for alexis. [applause] just jump right in. This book is about what you call net states. Maybe you just want to start by taking a minute and telling us what those are and why we needed a new category. Canthank you all for coming. The pest way to straight what net states are is to talk about how i came upon the idea to right this book in the first place. So, back in 2015, there were a number of terrori
A typhoon bears down on millions of people in the philippines. And a warning from scientists about how much quicker the worlds 2nd largest ice sheet is breaking up. Into the program mexicos president has promised hugs not bullets well as part of his strategy to combat drug crime a year on hes witnessing the worst day of homicides in the countrys history since records began in 197127 deaths on sunday alone. With some of them the 22 killed in the gun battle between drug cartel and Security Forces in a town near the u. S. Border its the latest embarrassment for president and the rest Manuel Lopez Obrador who vowed to tackle violent. At its roots by fighting poverty and inequality with social programs rather than the army lets get more on this from our correspondent alan fischer whos in mexico city really worrying figures about this. I mean what more is the president saying because he in during his Election Campaign his platform was all about cleaning up those crime figures there are those
The rush to find shelter of the typhoon bears down the millions of people in the philippines. Bought into the program because president promised hugs and not bullets as part of his strategy to combat drug crime a year on hes witnessing the worst day of homicides since records began in 1997127 deaths on sunday alone. Mexico so we can the violence 22 people were killed in a gun battle between the drug cartel and Security Forces in a town near the u. S. Border its the latest embarrassment for president on the rare smuggler Lopez Obrador whos vowed to tackle Violent Crime at its roots by fighting poverty i did equality with social programs rather than the army lets get the very latest from alan fischer in mexico city and of course these figures now being digested by the president what else is he been saying seize got quite a lot of people that are listening to him at the moment both politically and in Civil Society. Well im sure it must have been a shock for the president and his staff the