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During a time when the Earth’s ecosystems are becoming increasingly “pushed beyond their ability to adapt,” according to the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, it is clear a coordinated and comprehensive response is necessary to avoid environmental calamity.

Xenophobia is a feeling of intense hatred, fear, or discrimination of people from other countries, categorized by an attitude of hostility toward perceived non-natives in a population.

8 March 2022, Barcelona – A World Economic Forum report on the gender gap puts a multi-generational struggle into stark terms: “None of us will see gender parity in our lifetimes, and nor likely will many of our children.”

Gender violence, which often reinforces structural inequities, comes in many forms, including sexual harassment and violence, human trafficking and slavery, and toxic relationships. Also known as gender-based violence (GBV), this global systemic issue transcends race, socioeconomic status, assigned gender, among other factors.

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At Citibeats, we often attempt to build new classifiers to gain insights from social media posts and provide the best context we can to our users around citizens' needs. For instance, we developed some tools to extract information from those posts: a request detector, gratitude detector, concern detector, human/bot or male/female detectors.

In a remarkable human achievement, it took about nine months after the global pandemic was declared for scientists to develop and administer the first coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine to the general public. And ever since that first jab was given to a 90-year-old grandmother in the U.K., 10 billion doses have been administered, saving countless lives in the process.

Three months before adopting the historic climate agreement in Paris in 2015, world leaders formulated a plan to transform society for the better through an initiative whose name belies its lofty ambitions: “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs).