Today our guests are the virus hunter himself, Dr. Nathan Wolfe, Chairman of Metabiota, and the CEO of Metabiota, Miss Nita Madhav. We discuss the future of pandemics, and why we haven’t learned from previous ones. We talk about the Global Infectious Diseases Index, the breakthrough tool they have developed, using AI to help detect and manage infectious diseases and performance metrics to rank countries’ responses to a pandemic. And we ask: what are the lessons we can learn from Covid to prevent a future pandemic causing a global shutdown.
In this episode of Thinkpod we talk to Manal Mhada, a professor at UM6P, about the future of agriculture in Morocco and beyond, smart and sustainable ways to irrigate and fertilise, and the new tools helping to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses agriculture produces, and how vital it is that research scientists learn from and talk to farmers, and give real value back to them at the end of the research: a seed, a tool they can use.
Resources are scarce, and the challenge is huge: To fight climate change as efficiently as possible, we should globally invest in the mitigation technologies that can reduce greenhouse gases most efficiently. But what are they?
Today our guest is Hicham El Habti, President of the University of Mohammed VI Polytechnic, universally known as UM6P. We discuss innovation and new technology in Higher Education, and leveraging the experience of Covid to provide digital and hybrid learning. And we ask about Africa tomorrow – why he believes that the next generation, empowered to innovate, will help Africa leapfrog the modern world and move straight to the postmodern world.
An unprecedented series of recent supply chain disruptions have highlighted the need for alternatives to complex global systems. Fast and versatile, micro-factories the size of shipping containers can make supply chains more resilient and value creation more decentralized – with significant social and environmental benefits.
