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Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Sunday, September 24, 2023
GovTech #GOVTECH GovTech
🏦 Explore the top 10 #GovTech #startups to watch in 2023 & learn how they enable transparent payment systems, public health decision support, AI-based city maintenance & more 👉 https://t.co/CraP60d61s@govmind_tech @us_abstract @PamojaAfya @alceba_ai @RaizitCom @urbanpinion
— StartUs Insights (@StartUsInsights) June 12, 2023
Simple and short introduction to GovTech using four examples.
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Saturday, September 16, 2023
a simple thing you do to be more effective?
Say 👋 to 🆕 Message Yourself.
— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) November 29, 2022
You can now send reminders 📝, inspiration ☁️, and everything in between to yourself in one easy-to-find place synced across all your devices. pic.twitter.com/4dahlgXysi
HOW TO USE "Message Yourself" on WhatsApp
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Sunday, August 13, 2023
Monday, May 15, 2023
It's better than just complaining
🌸🍍 oh, much better 🍍🌺
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Saturday, March 25, 2023
Unbroken Soul
Can an AI program really write a good movie? Here’s a test https://t.co/fBz75WmBiT
— Guardian Film (@guardianfilm) March 24, 2023
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Sunday, February 19, 2023
Made it look easy
“I’m so proud of everything we’ve achieved,” Wojcicki wrote. “It’s been exhilarating, meaningful, and all-consuming.”
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down, will assume advisory role at Google and Alphabet https://t.co/FYh1ApAxPc by @kyle_l_wiggers
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) February 16, 2023
Respect.
👍
Contrast with ...reports of twitter CEO's adventures 😲
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says she's “stepping back” from her leadership role at the company after nearly a decade of running the video-sharing platform https://t.co/C2G17fhJ3t
— CNN (@CNN) February 16, 2023
Respect.
👍
By the numbers, they're doing well 😆
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said Thursday she is “stepping back” from her leadership role at the company after nearly a decade of running the video-sharing platform https://t.co/DOcG9LKTos pic.twitter.com/8YJJYh4Ah9
— CNN (@CNN) February 17, 2023
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Thursday, June 02, 2022
A great career. 👏
??? 🆇You will never get rich working for someone else. pic.twitter.com/uepQwQQ2mp
— Motivation Guru (@m0tivati0n_guru) June 10, 2020
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Sunday, March 13, 2022
One Frantic Search for The Real Economy
"NFT Heist" - great satire
+
further money heists in the funding of agriculture through the Central Bank of Nigeria
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Sunday, November 22, 2020
Tech Matters. And "space" matters.
10 years of the co-Creation Hub!
commonly referred to as Cc-HUB or the HUB,
a technology-oriented centre located in Yaba, a district of Lagos,
provides a platform where technology-oriented people share ideas,
solving social problems in Nigeria - source, Wikipedia
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20 years of the New Afrika Shrine!
"Seun Anikulapo-Kuti is a son of the late AfroBeat legend and a musician himself. After the police had taken over his father's property, he announced that he would be resurrecting Movement of the People, a political ideology which was at the very heart of most of Fela's lifelong crusade against social injustice and political oppression."
Speaking of shrines,
Are you a social person? Have you ever thought of creating a Hub? What kind of space would you like to enable?
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Sunday, August 23, 2020
Animated!
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Does the world need YET ANOTHER SOCIAL MEDIA SPACE?
Let's seeeee...is there a food app yet? Like, at the minimum it should let users send the question: have you eaten, you don chop, etc etc in the applicable dialect, and then it should let users send their answer.
Some notes about possibilities for this app:
Say I'm a school-feeding program or a donor organization, I want to check to see that the population has actually been fed.
Say I'm an NGO providing such services, I want to partly automate my monitoring-and-evaluation using an app.
Say I'm a grandparent, I want to do something nice with my phone/tech like send a message to the family every time I think about them, and to get a message back.
Software is so easily abused, like we have seen with existing social media that becomes toxic in many ways, but hopefully the next generation of electronic chat-chat-chat things will apply the learnings from the existing ones.
For example,
some people don't even really want to chat. But they can reply with photos of their mealtime.
And some people don't really want to be bothered to take photos. But they can send cartoon pictures of the things they've eaten.
Yum. I really like food.
It's hard to find clip-art-quality food pictures online - would you believe?
It's mostly burger, hotdog, dough-nut, foreign food.
That's a job, or many jobs, a mini-industry, creating locally relevant pictures, vids, gifs and cartoon-drawings, of locally relevant foods...
And new social media don't have to be words alone, or pictures alone, or emoji, memes and videos, right? I don't know, maybe use some VR, AI, audio, video, AR, modern thing. Right?
Do you ever wonder why people in Silicon Valley (USA) keep coming up with app ideas for tindr, grindr, and so on, and when you say ok it has to be a food app, they come up with restaurant table pre-booking apps and maybe delivery? And it's like they're never going to think of an app for bread, beans, mango, because that stuff is like not what they're thinking about, at all.
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Well, food alone takes up over 50% of household incomes in some parts of the world ;) ;)
...while others can't spend more than 5% before they run into problems.
Like doctor, doctor, help me - problems.
Then the doctor tells you to cut down the carbs, or the fat, or red meat, or you start to eat natural healthy, vegan, pescatarian and all that stuff. And start to starve yourself or drink cleanses or run marathons.
It really has to be said that food is so important.
And that just because some people and countries have food to eat and all that doesn't mean that people in other places aren't hustling JUST TO EAT. and pay school fees. Lol. Food and school fees. And then you're old.
Are we even on the same planet? #iwonder.
So,
where were we?
A food app, simple and sweet like the yo app, maybe for the phone and I can even envision an audio-based service (especially as in many places we just eat the same two things or five things over and over lol), some standard ways of asking and responding and some more over-the-top and creative ways of using the same app, and maybe all kinds of people want to use it as well, including students and restaurants and celebrities and presidents.
That's another thing about social media,
maybe like the food app should not be about individuals. Because in real life most people's food and eating happens in groups. The school-lunch in your class. The breakfast table before school. The hospital cafeteria. Your work crew that likes to eat together at break-time. You and your boo that love eating out. You feeding your infant (but you can't differentiate between you and baby because love got you feeling crazy and so as long as baby has eaten, you have won.)
So, while individuals "maybe" exist, I think social media can be more social if it recognizes that some things happen in rather fixed groups and sometimes we want to let other people speak for us while we reserve the option of speaking for ourselves and for others.
It's hard to start because one starts to think of all the problems:
Gangs and nefarious activity have really been issues on social media and now you're solidifying the idea of groups.
On the other hand, one-on-one bullying and harassment would be less a problem if it's just your class social captain or class teacher managing the social, and so users are not personalizing things.
Also how does this app not inadvertently become, uh, shall we say, sex education?
Also, how does one even start to create an app - the technical, the social considerations and all that?
Does it have to be a separate social media platform or just a layer on top of more bedrock apps - for example just adding food emojis and food-related questions on WhatsApp?
Good point.
That maybe it's not about creating the next facebook or Meetup or Yo or hi5, but about creating your own social media "application" on top of existing social media and apps.
And the existing apps like facebook would facilitate that by ... well, I checked the news, and they're on it. And facilitate that by...making it easier for people to create things that make their own thing more relevant. Also, making it easier to make apps - like give out a template for some types of apps just like blogger and wordpress give templates for blogs.
This blog post is like a whole book, y'all, drink some water.
Ok, Part Two:
Here's another cool social media layer or social media space or social media idea. It's a little bit about popularity, but not entirely so. It's a little bit about self-expression, but talk is cheap. So, it's also a little bit about civic engagement and social responsibility. Code-named "Why me?" it lets you campaign for things.
Let's say you want to be the class social prefect for the term/semester. Or you want to be the street resident association chairperson with your team or your husband/wife or contest individually. Or you are ready for a job promotion this year. Or you want to start a club to do weekly beach cleanups or raise funds for helping someone else or something. Or you want support and sponsorship to travel for a singing competition. Or you and your friends are pretty and rich and employed and good and want to get married :D Or you want to manage an Itsekiri-in-diaspora cultural event. Or you want votes for your business to get an award...
In this app you can freely and safely express:
- what you want to do or get done and when or why or how...
- why you, why you, why you, show off, list your accomplishments or qualifications, tell your own story, create your own biography, collect testimonials...
- be socially social - include a team and do things as teams, commit to doing something very important for others which is the main point, select all the relevant people and groups to join in your mission, ask them to vote or assign them other tasks or request their help if you need it...
- run a campaign, run an election (election runner app), count votes, get winners,
- share progress, stay in touch...
- have fun.
- get used to elections, so that you can more easily see yourself becoming a senator, a diplomat, a manager, and a CEO.
And here is
Part Three:
Did you like the art-selfie thing?
It's one of those face-match things - you take a picture and it matches your face to one of the existing faces in their museum art database.
The same technology can do more things, and I'm proposing a birdie app looool, it takes in fashion photos and matches them to some spectacularly vivid photographs of birds.
Birds are prettily-coloured, and some pictures are just begging for this treatment anyway.
Really a lot of cool things can develop from letting AI match photos to similar photos.
Photos of things around you into photos of things far away, and imaginary non-realities and movies and experiences created out of that. Videos too. All forms.
One great thing about the birdie app is it's not about your face, your weight, your race, your skin, or anything like that - it's about fun, fashion, colours, poses, and... birds?
(Then I asked an expert and she said I have it wrong in that in fact people are vain and just want to see their own selves not some birds no matter how pretty or: "fashion is about narcissism" )
which is a shame I guess :-)
and which leads me to an even better product, one that matches one way, from fashion to bird, or the other way, from bird to fashion.
While the art-minded try it out for their fascinating bird-match -
hahaha, what bird do I look like if I wear this and pose like this -
the more clothes-minded might model clothes that match with a given pic, like a bird pic, iconic fashion pic, something like that
Actually, not just pics, there could be like gait, walking, acting, involved
...like,
everybody does the penguin challenge one day and submits media in which they mimic the penguin,
or the kissing flamingos challenge with lots of pink,
or the Madonna dress-alike World Championships that is like a whole show with many levels, maybe this is level five:
So it's not actually the birdie app anymore, it's the Dress Like (A Bird) Challenge. A.I. might be nice for matching to one of many bird photos, but it might not be so good for matching the other way. Worth testing, but it could be annoying if it seems not to understand things and then scores people badly for silly reasons. Ok.
I know that Nigerian women are ready to slay in any fashion-related contest. Let's not tell anybody yet though. I pity the fool who tries to compete :D :D :D
In fact, just Naija men alone will finish the competition. Hehehehe.
Some notes about possibilities for this app:
Say I'm a school-feeding program or a donor organization, I want to check to see that the population has actually been fed.
Say I'm an NGO providing such services, I want to partly automate my monitoring-and-evaluation using an app.
Say I'm a grandparent, I want to do something nice with my phone/tech like send a message to the family every time I think about them, and to get a message back.
my abuela is like a damn food detective. it's not just "Have you eaten?" It's, "What time did you eat?" "What did you eat?" "I didn't see you eat?" "There's no dishes in the sink?" "Your story isn't lining up."— madampanhandler (@madampanhandler) December 22, 2017
what part of my constant “have you eaten” do u not get??? i am in love with youuu— I like you that’s why i (@Mayowathefirst) November 26, 2019
Software is so easily abused, like we have seen with existing social media that becomes toxic in many ways, but hopefully the next generation of electronic chat-chat-chat things will apply the learnings from the existing ones.
some people don't even really want to chat. But they can reply with photos of their mealtime.
And some people don't really want to be bothered to take photos. But they can send cartoon pictures of the things they've eaten.
Yum. I really like food.
It's hard to find clip-art-quality food pictures online - would you believe?
It's mostly burger, hotdog, dough-nut, foreign food.
That's a job, or many jobs, a mini-industry, creating locally relevant pictures, vids, gifs and cartoon-drawings, of locally relevant foods...
Do you ever wonder why people in Silicon Valley (USA) keep coming up with app ideas for tindr, grindr, and so on, and when you say ok it has to be a food app, they come up with restaurant table pre-booking apps and maybe delivery? And it's like they're never going to think of an app for bread, beans, mango, because that stuff is like not what they're thinking about, at all.
Well, food alone takes up over 50% of household incomes in some parts of the world ;) ;)
...while others can't spend more than 5% before they run into problems.
Like doctor, doctor, help me - problems.
Then the doctor tells you to cut down the carbs, or the fat, or red meat, or you start to eat natural healthy, vegan, pescatarian and all that stuff. And start to starve yourself or drink cleanses or run marathons.
Today The Food Friends are running the Amsterdam Marathon. Tomorrow our very last funnyfooddrawing! What Food would you like to see? Any requests? #365funnyfoodfestival #food #marathon #dailydrawing #illustration #studiolimon #amsterdam #haarlem #denbosc… https://t.co/YnFW5s0fox pic.twitter.com/ejlxqTBcyJ— Francis Kousemaker (@francisliem) October 21, 2018
It really has to be said that food is so important.
And that just because some people and countries have food to eat and all that doesn't mean that people in other places aren't hustling JUST TO EAT. and pay school fees. Lol. Food and school fees. And then you're old.
Are we even on the same planet? #iwonder.
So,
where were we?
A food app, simple and sweet like the yo app, maybe for the phone and I can even envision an audio-based service (especially as in many places we just eat the same two things or five things over and over lol), some standard ways of asking and responding and some more over-the-top and creative ways of using the same app, and maybe all kinds of people want to use it as well, including students and restaurants and celebrities and presidents.
That's another thing about social media,
maybe like the food app should not be about individuals. Because in real life most people's food and eating happens in groups. The school-lunch in your class. The breakfast table before school. The hospital cafeteria. Your work crew that likes to eat together at break-time. You and your boo that love eating out. You feeding your infant (but you can't differentiate between you and baby because love got you feeling crazy and so as long as baby has eaten, you have won.)
So, while individuals "maybe" exist, I think social media can be more social if it recognizes that some things happen in rather fixed groups and sometimes we want to let other people speak for us while we reserve the option of speaking for ourselves and for others.
It's hard to start because one starts to think of all the problems:
Gangs and nefarious activity have really been issues on social media and now you're solidifying the idea of groups.
On the other hand, one-on-one bullying and harassment would be less a problem if it's just your class social captain or class teacher managing the social, and so users are not personalizing things.
Also how does this app not inadvertently become, uh, shall we say, sex education?
Also, how does one even start to create an app - the technical, the social considerations and all that?
Does it have to be a separate social media platform or just a layer on top of more bedrock apps - for example just adding food emojis and food-related questions on WhatsApp?
Good point.
And the existing apps like facebook would facilitate that by ... well, I checked the news, and they're on it. And facilitate that by...making it easier for people to create things that make their own thing more relevant. Also, making it easier to make apps - like give out a template for some types of apps just like blogger and wordpress give templates for blogs.
---- o ----
This blog post is like a whole book, y'all, drink some water.
Ok, Part Two:
Here's another cool social media layer or social media space or social media idea. It's a little bit about popularity, but not entirely so. It's a little bit about self-expression, but talk is cheap. So, it's also a little bit about civic engagement and social responsibility. Code-named "Why me?" it lets you campaign for things.
In this app you can freely and safely express:
- what you want to do or get done and when or why or how...
- why you, why you, why you, show off, list your accomplishments or qualifications, tell your own story, create your own biography, collect testimonials...
- be socially social - include a team and do things as teams, commit to doing something very important for others which is the main point, select all the relevant people and groups to join in your mission, ask them to vote or assign them other tasks or request their help if you need it...
- run a campaign, run an election (election runner app), count votes, get winners,
- share progress, stay in touch...
- have fun.
- get used to elections, so that you can more easily see yourself becoming a senator, a diplomat, a manager, and a CEO.
And here is
Part Three:
Did you like the art-selfie thing?
The same technology can do more things, and I'm proposing a birdie app looool, it takes in fashion photos and matches them to some spectacularly vivid photographs of birds.
which is a shame I guess :-)
and which leads me to an even better product, one that matches one way, from fashion to bird, or the other way, from bird to fashion.
hahaha, what bird do I look like if I wear this and pose like this -
...like,
everybody does the penguin challenge one day and submits media in which they mimic the penguin,
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| "I've gotta kiss myself - I'm so pretty...I'm too hot!" |
In fact, just Naija men alone will finish the competition. Hehehehe.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Optimism // Beautiful world
How Bill and Melinda Gates have tried to make Warren Buffett's vision of optimism a reality - and how you can too https://t.co/EvLnEX1i07 pic.twitter.com/zbSbV642Ci— CNN International (@cnni) February 14, 2017
Only 1% know poverty has halved since 1990. Optimism in pessimistic times. Read Gates Annual Letter – https://t.co/dKc994XAzq via @billgates— Carlos A. Reck (@yuyay) February 14, 2017
Announcing the 2017 World's 50 Most Innovative Companies—from @Snap to @Glossier #FCMostInnovative https://t.co/FCIXTrYzaI pic.twitter.com/HVQS89WwGs— Fast Company (@FastCompany) February 13, 2017
Announcing the 2017 World's 50 Most Innovative Companies—from @Amazon to @Chobani #FCMostInnovative https://t.co/Betg3uxDck pic.twitter.com/dvvHhBkFrU— Fast Company (@FastCompany) February 13, 2017
She's the first woman to travel to every country in the world https://t.co/OfwVnh3Hf3 pic.twitter.com/79uj49TunQ— CNN (@CNN) February 10, 2017
All these countries have had a woman leader before the U.S.: https://t.co/7bfYfLjDcW pic.twitter.com/KaY1YPmFIN— CNN International (@cnni) June 10, 2016
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Monday, January 16, 2017
An agenda for better wealth
Stark inequality: Oxfam says 8 men as rich as half the world https://t.co/JEVJiI1Eha— Erik Donald France (@eriklevert) January 16, 2017
Davos is this week, and the agenda is exciting:
Robotics, Trump and Brexit turn up the heat amid the snow of Davos https://t.co/VU0PSAGbVH— The Guardian (@guardian) January 14, 2017
What will the assembled agree to do about crippling inequality? I am very eager to see.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Affordable Housing - How To Succeed
1. Stop complaining about the price of cement. Start Digging.
Wise civilizations have always built homes with what they have, not with what they have to obtain with difficulty. Today's Nigeria is not a wise civilization I suppose, or we would use laterite bricks more.
What is laterite? The answer may be beneath your feet at the construction site.
2. Build more units than you need
Sell or rent to others, and make some money. Be an answer to the housing crunch...Nigerians need answers. Do you want to become an expert in affordable and sustainable building technology? Start here.
http://olojauk.com/article/with-n3m-15000-you-can-build-your-own-house-in-nigeria.html
http://thenationonlineng.net/building-a-functional-low-cost-house/
http://www.nairaland.com/1495068/build-red-bricks-hugely
http://www.nairaland.com/2209886/alternative-building-technique-affordable-housing
http://www.nairaland.com/1006963/affordable-low-cost-housing-option
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/04/affordable-housing-with-bricks-you-can-reduce-cost-by-40/
https://ng.boell.org/2015/03/03/affordable-green-housing-nigeria
3. Lower your running costs too
Fire NEPA/PHCN/xxDC , throw away the noisy generator (or give it to your enemy lol) and be your own solar power provider. Also remember to build in time-tested natural ventilation and passive cooling systems from day 1, from the first drawing your architect makes.
Get inspired: See more natural heating and cooling systems via snelhai's pinterest page
We can learn a lot about Passive Cooling from Cairo/Egypt, Yemen/Arabia, Iran/Iraq, and the Middle East in general. Example: E.M. Okba (Cairo University) has notes on Building Design for Passive Cooling
Apply wisdom. Come back with a testimony.
You may also like:
http://upnaira.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/still-trying-to-find-your-passion-what.html ,
Using electric power at home ,
http://lifelib.blogspot.com.ng/2011/01/agric-chic.html
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Wise civilizations have always built homes with what they have, not with what they have to obtain with difficulty. Today's Nigeria is not a wise civilization I suppose, or we would use laterite bricks more.
What is laterite? The answer may be beneath your feet at the construction site.
2. Build more units than you need
Sell or rent to others, and make some money. Be an answer to the housing crunch...Nigerians need answers. Do you want to become an expert in affordable and sustainable building technology? Start here.
http://olojauk.com/article/with-n3m-15000-you-can-build-your-own-house-in-nigeria.html
http://thenationonlineng.net/building-a-functional-low-cost-house/
http://www.nairaland.com/1495068/build-red-bricks-hugely
http://www.nairaland.com/2209886/alternative-building-technique-affordable-housing
http://www.nairaland.com/1006963/affordable-low-cost-housing-option
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/04/affordable-housing-with-bricks-you-can-reduce-cost-by-40/
https://ng.boell.org/2015/03/03/affordable-green-housing-nigeria
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| Meet the experts, read their books and study their works, for example The Architecture of Renowned Master Demas Nwoko |
3. Lower your running costs too
Fire NEPA/PHCN/xxDC , throw away the noisy generator (or give it to your enemy lol) and be your own solar power provider. Also remember to build in time-tested natural ventilation and passive cooling systems from day 1, from the first drawing your architect makes.
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| Thermal ventilation and Cross-ventilation |
Get inspired: See more natural heating and cooling systems via snelhai's pinterest page
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| Ventilation Blocks |
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| Middle Eastern - style wind tower for ventilation |
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| Traditional Badgir (wind-catcher) system |
You may also like:
http://upnaira.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/still-trying-to-find-your-passion-what.html ,
Using electric power at home ,
http://lifelib.blogspot.com.ng/2011/01/agric-chic.html
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Solar Impulse // Lovely Achievement
Solar Impulse goes around the world, completing its mission proving that zero-emissions is possible! #futureisclean https://t.co/Yt7XBnOHBx— SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) July 26, 2016
I believe #futureisclean b/c Solar Impulse completed the 1st solar-powered round-the-world flight. Take it further! https://t.co/iJGunokUf8— SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) July 26, 2016
Congratulation to the #solarimpulse Team, Great TEAM spirit ! pic.twitter.com/EaeLmucK9w— SOLAR IMPULSE (@solarimpulse) July 26, 2016
Some of the best pictures from the adventure:
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More: blog.SolarImpulse.com
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