South Africa has a big problem with corruption in government supply chains. The most salient recent example would be the looting of funds during the Covid-19 pandemic, specifically the procurement of personal protective equipment in the Gauteng health department. Mark Heywood correctly asserted in the Daily Maverick that unless we introduce the certainty of punishment for corrupt public officials, we will lose the fight against corruption . The July looting and riots taught us that these events affect our daily lives. They cause job losses and food price increases and are especially hard on the youth sector.

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Rapid urbanisation in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city, has meant there's been huge growth in the number of vehicles on roads. Today, Nairobi is one of the world's most congested cities. Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) Director General Silas Kinoti has said intelligent infrastructure is helping transport networks to become more connected in an attempt to identify ways of improving experience for everyone on the road. Bird's eye view tech aims to unlock Nairobi traffic jams according to @KURAroads Director General @MuriraKinoti who believes that construction of many roads is a milestone yes but not a solution to nerve-racking snarl ups pic.twitter.com/WGHhRk9N3X He said Kenya will be seeking to emulate on their foreign counterparts like Germany to initiate usage of Artificial Intelligence(AI) to optimise traffic light control and reduce the waiting time at an intersection. "There are real world projects around the globe and the applications are continuously expanding. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be key to help us with the data which would identify patterns that would not have been seen without AI. Through continuous learning, we're able to constantly update the traffic patterns and thus traffic flow. Road Traffic monitoring involves the collection of data describing the characteristic of vehicles and their movement through road networks. Such data may be used for one of these purposes such as law enforcement, congestion and incident detection and increasing road capacity. The roads in Nairobi carry more than 60 per cent of more than two million registered vehicles, resulting in tangles of traffic stretching for miles. Earlier today, KURA top management team inspected the dualling of the Eastern Bypass Project and appreciated the progress achieved. Once the road is complete, traffic jams will be reduced and improve connectivity.@PDUDelivery "KURA being an expert in Intelligent Traffic System (ITS) with an example being Yaya Centre,we will have cameras, signals and censors in all arms of the junctions.

The ongoing Russian-Ukraine war and the unprecedented sanctions the United States and its allies have imposed on Russia could bring the world economy back to 1914, which signaled the end of early globalization and the revival of national and regional conflicts. "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes," Mark Twain is rightly or wrongly quoted as saying, which is as timely today as it was in his time. At the turn of the 20th century, capitalism was on track to conquer the global economy, creating a global market without borders, a trade regime where commodities and resources could flow freely within and across borders. But unfortunately for the world community, it didn't happen. By the beginning of the second decade, this trend of early globalization stalled and, in some cases, forestalled by the rise of nationalism and trade protectionism, not to mention the destruction of the two World Wars. For instance, increased trade protectionism limited the flow of resources and commodities across national borders.

It is better to launch products off a leaner base and, should a bank seek an acquirer, a lower cost base would also help strengthen valuations. While the jury is still out on whether the current market uncertainty will result in an imminent recession or a prolonged period of slow growth, the fact is that growth has slowed. As growth is unlikely to quicken in the medium term, we have, without question, entered the late cycle. Compounding this situation is the continued threat posed by fintechs and big technology companies, as they take stakes in banking businesses. The call to action is urgent: whether a bank is a leader and seeks to "protect" returns or is one of the underperformers looking to turn the business around and push returns above the cost of equity, the time for bold and critical moves is now.

My name is Dima and here I want to share my small project. It is about implementation of deep-learning tool in protein structure prediction. In the late December 2021 I was lucky to find online internship in the field of Bioinformatics. That was NyBerMan Merit Internship from LLBio-IT School and the main focus was, surprisingly (not), Covid investigation. After some technical interviews and huge competition (near 1000 participants for 20 places) I was planning next weeks of learning and doing.

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As a powerful statistical tool that has revolutionized modern molecular evolutionary analysis, Bayesian phylogenetic inference has been widely used for tasks ranging from genomic epidemiology [Dudas et al., 2017, du Plessis et al., 2021] to conservation genetics [DeSalle and Amato, 2004]. Given aligned sequence data (e.g., DNA, RNA or protein sequences) and a model of evolution, Bayesian phylogenetics provides principled approaches to quantify the uncertainty of the evolutionary process in terms of the posterior probabilities of phylogenetic trees [Huelsenbeck et al., 2001]. In addition to uncertainty quantification, Bayesian methods enable integrating out tree uncertainty in order to get more confident estimates of parameters of interest, such as factors in the transmission of Ebolavirus [Dudas et al., 2017]. Bayesian methods also allow complex substitution models [Lartillot and Philippe, 2004], which are important in elucidating deep phylogenetic relationships [Feuda et al., 2017]. Ever since its introduction to the phylogenetic community in the 1990s, Bayesian phylogenetic inference has been dominated by random-walk Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approaches [Yang and Rannala, 1997, Mau et al., 1999, Huelsenbeck and Ronquist, 2001, Drummond et al., 2002, 2005]. However, this approach is fundamentally limited by the complexities of tree space.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is helping prevent overfishing in a bid to protect the world's rapidly dwindling supply of edible marine species. A new project uses AI to improve the identification and measurement of fish species in Africa's Nile Basin. The software can help scientists understand fish population density more quickly than human observers. It's part of a larger effort to harness AI to improve sustainability across a wide range of industries. "The promising thing about AI is that it now allows us to do tasks that would be time-consuming or impossibly complex using traditional methods, with considerably more speed and efficiency," Andrew Dunckelman, head of impact and insights at Google.org, the search giant's charitable arm, told Lifewire in an email interview.

As the CEO of one of the top global AI-powered biotechnology companies, I regularly get to see some of the world's most innovative techno parks and biotechnology hubs that are popping up all over the world. Over the past couple of years, I traveled to several such centers in the US, Canada, China, Singapore, and the Middle East. We even established one of our R&D centers at the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park. All of these centers have their advantages and disadvantages that often go in line with the government policies and I will try to cover some of these centers in my future posts and make a comparison. So far, some of the most impressive biotechnology hubs are in China and in Singapore.