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#141: Who Gets Reached, WHO Africa's Outbreak Call, Project TRACE, Maryland Medicaid
Impact Signals #141: Who Gets Reached, WHO Africa's Outbreak Call, Project TRACE, Maryland Medicaid On the margins of the UN General Assembly, African leaders adopted a New York Call to Action that names AI-assisted outbreak intelligence as part of cross-border preparedness, with countries keeping control of their own data. In Cambridge, a US-Cameroon team won a 77-country city climate hackathon with a tool that listens to recorded conversations in languages like Zulu to find the flood survivors nobody has reached, while Maryland brought in three civic-tech groups to rewrite the Medicaid…
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