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Is A Smart City The Best Solution To Windhoek’s Urban Development?
Are smart cities the best urban development models for cities in developing countries? Can Namibia afford to create a smart city, if the National Broadband policy has not been implemented nor is there equitable internet access and quality in Windhoek?
Blood ties: The controversy behind DNA surveillance in Tibet
US biotech company, Thermo Fisher, recently halted sales of its DNA identification kits in Tibet, under scrutiny that its products were being unethically used to find and persecute ethnic minorities.
Are the SDGs the best development framework for Africa?
There is a need to adopt radical post-development practices, which will serve as an alternative approach to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for Africa. These approaches should serve the interests of indigenous people and global south countries, whose needs are often not considered in the SDG discourse.
