Addressing tech skills shortages through Australia’s correctional facilities
15 Dec
Science & Technology

Addressing tech skills shortages through Australia’s correctional facilities

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Would you hire someone with a criminal record?Australian CIOs are being called to support a groundbreaking initiative that is transforming lives and addressing critical talent shortages in the technology sector. Through a programme led by New Zealand-based charitable organisation Title 2people serving prison terms are being trained in technology skills while still in the corrective system, equipping them for meaningful careers upon release. Having already made a significant impact in New Zealand, Take2 launched its first Australian programme earlier this year at the Mary Wade Correctional Centre in Sydney, in partnership with Corrective Services New South Wales. It is now in the early stages of planning for its second prison classroom and a new community hub in Australia. Founder and CEO Cameron Smith tells CIO Australia this creates more opportunities for justice-impacted individuals to transform their futures,...
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Airborne observations identify major source of US landfill methane emissions
15 Dec
Science & Technology

Airborne observations identify major source of US landfill methane emissions

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A team has found via testing from airplanes that landfill work faces tend to be responsible for the biggest share of methane emissions in U.S. landfills. Their findings are published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. The researchers are from Carbon Mapper, a California nonprofit dedicated to finding ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Arizona State University and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The primary gas causing climate change is carbon dioxide. This is due mainly to the sheer volume of the gas being pumped into the atmosphere. Methane actually insulates more heat than carbon dioxide but has received less attention due to lower overall emissions. Still, environmentalists have been growing more concerned about the gas as more sources of it have been found in recent years. In this new effort, the research team focused their efforts on methane emissions from landfills. Landfills tend to...
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Nyesom Wike and the politics of nihilism, By Austin Tam-George
15 Dec
Politics

Nyesom Wike and the politics of nihilism, By Austin Tam-George

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FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.By constantly imagining himself as governor of Rivers State and seeking so desperately to control the affairs of the State, Nyesom Wike may be exhibiting the worst strain of all hallucinations – the hallucination of power… Wike and his proxies have been waging a futile battle in the courts, in the streets, and in the media, to unseat the legitimate government of Governor Siminalayi Fubara.Over the past one year, former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has shown that he is unable to accept the reality that he is no longer the governor of Rivers State. Although he is the current Minister for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with a full bucket of administrative responsibilities to the residents of the FCT, the minister has his total attention fixed on Rivers State, where he still...
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Will act on civil disobedience once clarity emerges: KP CM
15 Dec
Politics

Will act on civil disobedience once clarity emerges: KP CM

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Party awaits clear instructions regarding what needs to be done to initiate the movement: GandapurInfo Minster blasts PTI leadership for pursuing ‘politics of violence’PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur on Sunday declared that there is no clarity on the matter civil disobedience movement yet and they will act on it once clarity emerges. “The PTI founder had “made the announcement and whatever Khan’s order is, we have to implement that in the same spirit but there is no clarity until now,” he declared while speaking to the media in Peshawar on Sunday. KP CM Gandapur said that the party was waiting for clear instructions regarding what needs to be done to initiate the movement. “Once there’s clarity, God willing, we will do it,” the KP CM said. He said that their demands include the release of the...
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