Daily Archives: 30. September 2018


30.09.2018 - 18:59 [ Diplomat ]

China’s Empty Promises of Green Energy for Africa

(26.September) Chinese energy financing in Africa is not as green as promised. The International Energy Agency (IEA) found that 44 percent of the capacity added in sub-Saharan Africa between 2010 and 2015 by Chinese contractors comes from to coal, oil, or gas, the most polluting energy sources. Another half of added capacity goes to large-scale hydropower projects, which have negative environmental and social impacts of their own. Whereas the cleanest energy sources, such as wind and solar, are widely installed within China, only 7 percent of Chinese-backed projects in sub-Saharan Africa actually install such capacity.

30.09.2018 - 18:08 [ teleSUR ]

Outrageous Quotes That Prove Jair Bolsonaro is a Threat to Brazil‘s Democracy

Bolsonaro, who is leading Brazil‘s presidential polls, has a long history of embracing torture and making violent comments against vulnerable groups.
teleSUR English takes a look at the candidate‘s eight most dangerous comments Bolsonaro has made during his political career to provide a glimpse into why many believe he poses such a threat to democracy and a “plural” Brazil.

30.09.2018 - 10:43 [ betanews ]

Tim Berners-Lee launches open source project Solid to decentralize the web and place users in control of data

Because of the time and effort that will be involved in getting Solid off the group, Berners-Lee is not only taking a sabbatical from MIT, he is also reducing his involvement in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). On top of this, he has created startup called inrupt, the mission of which is „to ensure that Solid becomes widely adopted by developers, businesses, and eventually… everyone; that it becomes part of the fabric of the web“.