During the previous [[OWASP_EU_Summit_2008 | Summit]], OWASP was fortunate enough to be able to fund all OWASP leaders to attend the Summit. Unfortunately, the budget for the 2011 Summit is not as large as the previous budget. As a result, the Summit Committee is making the following compromise with our attendees: we will provide the venue meeting rooms, the A/V equipment, and the venue supporting staff in order to enable attendees to work effectively; attendees just have to pay for travel and accommodations for themselves.
During the previous [[OWASP_EU_Summit_2008 | Summit]], OWASP was fortunate enough to be able to fund all OWASP leaders to attend the Summit. Unfortunately, the budget for the 2011 Summit is not as large as the previous budget. As a result, the Summit Committee is making the following compromise with our attendees: we will provide the venue meeting rooms, the A/V equipment, and the venue supporting staff in order to enable attendees to work effectively; attendees just have to pay for travel and accommodations for themselves.
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The Summit '''Operational''' Budget is $50k. The venue costs currently account for 40% of the Summit budget, with the possibility of an additional 10% increase in order to procure another meeting room should it become necessary. Another 20% of the Summit budget is being held as a cash flow reserve to cover things like exchange/wire fees, unexpected venue expenses, incidentals, and other miscellaneous expenses. The final 20% of the Summit budget will be used for operational expenses.
The Summit '''Operational''' Budget is $50k. The venue costs currently account for 40% of the Summit budget, with the possibility of an additional 10% increase in order to procure another meeting room should it become necessary. Another 20% of the Summit budget is being held as a cash flow reserve to cover things like exchange/wire fees, unexpected venue expenses, incidentals, and other miscellaneous expenses. The final 20% of the Summit budget will be used for operational expenses.
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# ''Active'' Global Committee Members (as determined by the Board in consultation with the respective elected Committee Chairs)
# ''Active'' Global Committee Members (as determined by the Board in consultation with the respective elected Committee Chairs)
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The remainder of the budget (approximately $20k) is being used by the Board to fund as many attendees as possible. OWASP leaders who follow the [[#Funding Request Application Process | funding request application process]] will be considered for funding as available. Unfortunately, the Board will not be able to fund everyone that wants to attend. If you are able to obtain funding through your employer, ''please'' do so. The Summit Committee has prepared a number of [[Summit_2011_Promotional_Materials#Template_Attendee_Letters | letters]] that you can give your employer - we can even mail signed copies of the letter directly to your employer on request!
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The remainder of the budget will be used by the Board to fund as many attendees as possible. The Board has decided to use a ranking system to select the individuals who will receive the funds currently available, as well as any funds that the Summit may receive through corporate sponsorships or other budget allocations. To learn more about the ranking system, see [https://lists.owasp.org/pipermail/owasp-summit-2011/2011-January/000518.html Dinis Cruz's email] to Summit sponsorship applicants on 5 January 2011.
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The [[Summit_2011_Attendee/Summit_Attendees_Funds_-_Ranking_for_10th_Jan_2010 |first round of sponsorships]] using the ranking system was decided and awarded on 10 January 2011.
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The [[Summit_2011_Attendee/Summit_Attendees_Funds_-_Ranking_for_18th_Jan_2010 |second round of sponsorships]] using the ranking system was decided and awarded on 18 January 2011.
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Unfortunately, the Board will not be able to fund everyone that wants to attend. If you are able to obtain funding through your employer, ''please'' do so. The Summit Committee has prepared a number of [[Summit_2011_Promotional_Materials#Template_Attendee_Letters | letters]] that you can give your employer - we can even mail signed copies of the letter directly to your employer on request!
= Funding Request Application Process =
= Funding Request Application Process =
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If you need funding to support your attendance to the Summit, please take the following steps:
If you need funding to support your attendance to the Summit, please take the following steps:
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# Add your name to the list of attendees that need funding support by entering your name on the [[Summit_2011_Attendee#Confirmed_Summit_Attendees:_Seeking_Funds.2FSponsorship | Attendee page]]. To add your name to the Attendee page, [[Summit_2011_Attendee#Confirmed_Summit_Attendees:_Seeking_Funds.2FSponsorship | go to the page]] and find the first blank line without a name. Click on the "Edit" link as show below and add your details. Make sure to include your email address in the Attendee form or we won't be able to contact you![[Image:summit-funding.png|center|frame]]
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# Add your name to the list of attendees that need funding support by entering your name on the [[Summit_2011_Attendee#Confirmed_Summit_Attendees:_Seeking_Funds.2FSponsorship | Attendee page]]. To add your name to the Attendee page, [[Summit_2011_Attendee#Confirmed_Summit_Attendees:_Seeking_Funds.2FSponsorship | go to the page]] and find the first blank line without a name. Click on the "Edit" link as show below and add your details. Make sure to include your email address in the Attendee form or we won't be able to contact you![[Image:summit-funding.png|center|frame]].
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# Contact [mailto:[email protected] Sarah Baso] or [mailto:[email protected] Dinis Cruz] to find out the current status of funds available as well as if (and when) the Board will be selecting the next round of sponsorships for the Summit.
# Fill out [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TBj0BxBnzx8P7SegtEc8dSUNlQdLEZ5xXTbwfbdh6Bg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNvixYEL this application] to ask for sponsorship by your local Chapter or a Project that you contribute to or lead and send it to [mailto:[email protected] Sarah Baso]
# Fill out [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TBj0BxBnzx8P7SegtEc8dSUNlQdLEZ5xXTbwfbdh6Bg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNvixYEL this application] to ask for sponsorship by your local Chapter or a Project that you contribute to or lead and send it to [mailto:[email protected] Sarah Baso]
You '''''must''''' follow these directions to be considered for funding. Funding is '''''extremely''''' limited and preference will be given to people that ''follow instructions''.
You '''''must''''' follow these directions to be considered for funding. Funding is '''''extremely''''' limited and preference will be given to people that ''follow instructions''.
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*NOTE CHANGE*
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As of 18 January, 2011 we have maxed out all the funds we have available for attendees (from OWASP foundation funds and from the chapters themselves), if more funding is received via corporate or individual donations from now until the time of the Summit we will contact those listed on the [[Summit_2011_Attendee#Confirmed_Summit_Attendees:_Seeking_Funds.2FSponsorship | Summit attendees seeking funds list]].
== Logistical Guidelines and Expectations for OWASP-Sponsored Attendees==
== Logistical Guidelines and Expectations for OWASP-Sponsored Attendees==
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*For an attendee staying 4 nights, OWASP will sponsor the Participant Ticket + 4-Nights Shared Accommodation.
*For an attendee staying 4 nights, OWASP will sponsor the Participant Ticket + 4-Nights Shared Accommodation.
*Any remaining amount based on the chosen ticket combination, including costs of companions, will be charged to the attendee.
*Any remaining amount based on the chosen ticket combination, including costs of companions, will be charged to the attendee.
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===Airfare Guidelines===
===Airfare Guidelines===
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* Diplomata will search for the cheapest flight from the attendee’s home airport to Lisbon arriving Monday (February 7th) or Tuesday (February 8th) and departing Friday (February 11th). The cheapest available flight serves as the baseline for the attendee’s airfare.
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* Diplomata will then search for flights that depart on Saturday or Sunday. If flights available on Saturday or Sunday are significantly cheaper than the baseline airfare, the attendee may be asked to stay additional nights based on the Friday/Saturday Night Guidelines. If the attendee would like to choose a different flight, the attendee must pay the difference.
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* As of 10 January, 2011 responsibility for booking flights to the Summit has migrated from Diplomata to Sarah Baso. ''' All OWASP sponsored attendees need to contact [mailto:[email protected] Sarah Baso] for flight arrangements.'''
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* Sarah will search for the cheapest flight from the attendee’s home airport to Lisbon arriving Monday (February 7th) or Tuesday (February 8th) and departing Friday (February 11th). The cheapest available flight serves as the baseline for the attendee’s airfare.
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* Sarah will then search for flights that depart on Saturday or Sunday. If flights available on Saturday or Sunday are significantly cheaper than the baseline airfare, the attendee may be asked to stay additional nights based on the Friday/Saturday Night Guidelines. If the attendee would like to choose a different flight, the attendee must pay the difference.
===Friday Night Guidelines===
===Friday Night Guidelines===
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Back to main Summit 2011 page
1 Background
2 Summit Operational Budget
3 Summit Sponsorship Fund
4 Funding Request Application Process
4.1 Logistical Guidelines and Expectations for OWASP-Sponsored Attendees
4.1.1 Ticket Combination Guidelines
4.1.2 Airfare Guidelines
4.1.3 Friday Night Guidelines
4.1.4 Saturday Night Guidelines
4.1.5 Early Arrival Guidelines
Background
During the previous Summit, OWASP was fortunate enough to be able to fund all OWASP leaders to attend the Summit. Unfortunately, the budget for the 2011 Summit is not as large as the previous budget. As a result, the Summit Committee is making the following compromise with our attendees: we will provide the venue meeting rooms, the A/V equipment, and the venue supporting staff in order to enable attendees to work effectively; attendees just have to pay for travel and accommodations for themselves.
We have aggressively negotiated with multiple venues in order to find the best possible pricing for attendee accommodations. As you know, the Summit is not a conference - it is an opportunity to bring together the community to "get stuff done". OWASP is not making any revenue from the Summit - we are charging essentially at cost prices for the accommodations and food. There is only a small deviation simply due to villa room configuration, as we expect to have some villas that are not filled to capacity.
Summit Operational Budget
The Summit Operational Budget is $50k. The venue costs currently account for 40% of the Summit budget, with the possibility of an additional 10% increase in order to procure another meeting room should it become necessary. Another 20% of the Summit budget is being held as a cash flow reserve to cover things like exchange/wire fees, unexpected venue expenses, incidentals, and other miscellaneous expenses. The final 20% of the Summit budget will be used for operational expenses.
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Summit Sponsorship Fund
The Summit Sponsorship Fund is estimated to have $50k of funding available. This fund is administered by the OWASP Board. As one of the primary goals of the Summit is for OWASP leadership to meet to set the agenda for 2011, the Board prioritized funding for the following parties:
OWASP Staff
Board Members
Active Global Committee Members (as determined by the Board in consultation with the respective elected Committee Chairs)
The remainder of the budget will be used by the Board to fund as many attendees as possible. The Board has decided to use a ranking system to select the individuals who will receive the funds currently available, as well as any funds that the Summit may receive through corporate sponsorships or other budget allocations. To learn more about the ranking system, see Dinis Cruz's email to Summit sponsorship applicants on 5 January 2011.
The first round of sponsorships using the ranking system was decided and awarded on 10 January 2011.
The second round of sponsorships using the ranking system was decided and awarded on 18 January 2011.
Unfortunately, the Board will not be able to fund everyone that wants to attend. If you are able to obtain funding through your employer, please do so. The Summit Committee has prepared a number of letters that you can give your employer - we can even mail signed copies of the letter directly to your employer on request!
Funding Request Application Process
Please remember that funding for attendees is extremely limited this year. If you are able to obtain funding through your employer, please do so. We have prepared a number of letters that you can give your employer - we can even mail signed copies of the letter directly to your employer on request!
If you need funding to support your attendance to the Summit, please take the following steps:
Add your name to the list of attendees that need funding support by entering your name on the Attendee page. To add your name to the Attendee page, go to the page and find the first blank line without a name. Click on the "Edit" link as show below and add your details. Make sure to include your email address in the Attendee form or we won't be able to contact you!
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Contact Sarah Baso or Dinis Cruz to find out the current status of funds available as well as if (and when) the Board will be selecting the next round of sponsorships for the Summit.
Fill out this application to ask for sponsorship by your local Chapter or a Project that you contribute to or lead and send it to Sarah Baso
You must follow these directions to be considered for funding. Funding is extremely limited and preference will be given to people that follow instructions.
*NOTE CHANGE* As of 18 January, 2011 we have maxed out all the funds we have available for attendees (from OWASP foundation funds and from the chapters themselves), if more funding is received via corporate or individual donations from now until the time of the Summit we will contact those listed on the Summit attendees seeking funds list.
Logistical Guidelines and Expectations for OWASP-Sponsored Attendees
OWASP funded attendees are assumed to be arriving either Monday, February 7th or Tuesday, February 8th and departing on Friday, February 11th. Note that based on availability of flights, this may result in the attendee missing part of the Summit on Tuesday or Friday.
OWASP funded attendees can expect to have the following items included in their sponsorship:
Flights to/from the Summit (see restrictions on ticketing below),
Transportation to/from the airport,
Shared Accommodations for 3 or 4 nights in Villa-style suites each containing two or three bedrooms. The bedrooms will contain multiple beds and attendees will be expected to share rooms with other attendees. One of the bedrooms may have one double bed, in which case one of the two people assigned to that room will be asked to sleep on the sofa. Each villa has a common area living room and kitchenette which can be used to socialize and collaborate.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Coffee Breaks during the days of the Summit (Tuesday, February 7th through Friday, February 11th)
OWASP's Expectations for Sponsored Attendees:
Will be asked to participate in OWASP outreach activities with JavaRanch
Will be expected to act as a leader or secretary of one or more working sessions
Since some of the villas will require an occupant to sleep on the sofa, we expect that sponsored attendees will volunteer for this "duty" so that no attendees that pay their own way have to sleep on the sofa.
Due to the limited funds we have available this year for sponsoring attendees, OWASP will only pay the amount of the cheapest flights to/from the Summit. Therefore, while it may be somewhat inconvenient to attendee to have a non-direct flight, fly on a non-preferred airline, or come a day early/stay a day late, we are asking you to be respectful of this guideline when booking your flight. If you prefer a different (more expensive flight), we ask that you cover the cost difference yourself. See details below.
Ticket Combination Guidelines
Depending on how long the sponsored attendee is staying, OWASP will pay for the appropriate ticket combination.
For an attendee staying 3 nights, OWASP will sponsor the Participant Ticket + 3-Nights Shared Accommodation.
For an attendee staying 4 nights, OWASP will sponsor the Participant Ticket + 4-Nights Shared Accommodation.
Any remaining amount based on the chosen ticket combination, including costs of companions, will be charged to the attendee.
Airfare Guidelines
*NOTE CHANGE*
As of 10 January, 2011 responsibility for booking flights to the Summit has migrated from Diplomata to Sarah Baso. All OWASP sponsored attendees need to contact Sarah Baso for flight arrangements.
Sarah will search for the cheapest flight from the attendee’s home airport to Lisbon arriving Monday (February 7th) or Tuesday (February 8th) and departing Friday (February 11th). The cheapest available flight serves as the baseline for the attendee’s airfare.
Sarah will then search for flights that depart on Saturday or Sunday. If flights available on Saturday or Sunday are significantly cheaper than the baseline airfare, the attendee may be asked to stay additional nights based on the Friday/Saturday Night Guidelines. If the attendee would like to choose a different flight, the attendee must pay the difference.
Friday Night Guidelines
If the difference in cost between the Saturday flight and the baseline flight is significantly greater than the cost of one night’s accommodation at Campo Real, then the attendee will be asked to depart on Saturday’s flight. In these instances, Friday night’s accommodations at Campo Real will be paid for by OWASP for the sponsored attendee. If the sponsored attendee has a companion, the extra charge for the companion will be €50 EUR (which the attendee or companion will have to pay for themselves). If the attendee would prefer to depart on Friday, the attendee must pay the difference in airfare.
Saturday Night Guidelines
If the difference in cost between the Sunday flight and the baseline flight is significantly greater than the cost of two night’s accommodation at Campo Real, then the attendee will be asked to depart on Sunday’s flight. In these instances, Friday and Saturday night’s accommodations at Campo Real will be paid for by OWASP for the sponsored attendee. If the sponsored attendee has a companion, the extra charge for the companion will be €100 EUR (which the attendee or companion will have to pay themselves). If the attendee would prefer to depart on Friday, the attendee must pay the difference in airfare.
Early Arrival Guidelines
The same rules/guidelines used for booking and paying for flights departing on Saturday or Sunday should be used for flights arriving a day or two early. If the cost difference to arrive on either Saturday or Sunday (instead of the baseline flight), is significantly greater than the cost of one or two nights accommodation at Campo Real, then the attendee will be asked to arrive on Saturday or Sunday. In these instances, Saturday and Sunday nights’ accommodations for the sponsored attendee will be paid for by OWASP. If the sponsored attendee has a companion, the extra charge for the companion will be €50 EUR per night (which the attendee or companion will have to pay themselves). If the attendee would prefer to depart on Friday, the attendee must pay the difference in airfare. If the attendee would prefer to arrive on a different day, the attendee must pay the difference in airfare.
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Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages. There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since the financial crisis of 2008-09.
Advanced economies around the world have, to varying degrees, witnessed the same trends. If anything, Australia has done slightly better than other countries. Why has growth slowed globally? That’s a real question.
What theory tells us
Basic economic theory tells us GDP per capita is driven by technological progress. The so-called “neoclassical growth model”, developed in the 1950s by American Robert Solow and Australian Trevor Swan, saw technological progress as exogenous – attributable to an external cause. In a sense, the idea was that innovations just drop from the sky at some fixed rate.
In the early 1990s Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, and Paul Romer pioneered “endogenous growth theory” – that the causes are internal to the economic system. In particular their theory emphasised the development of ideas as crucial to technological progress.
Romer’s contribution was to highlight that producing ideas has large set-up costs but potentially low marginal costs of replication. Think pharmaceutical development, where R&D is very expensive but producing extra pills is cheap.
Since wages are the returns to labour from economic value created economy-wide, technological progress is needed to drive real wage increases. Image: Shutterstock
To make the development of new pharmaceuticals viable, therefore, some degree of monopoly power is required, so others who didn’t invest in developing them can’t simply copy the product. This suggests a crucial role for government policy, such as intellectual property rights and subsidies for basic research.
Aghion and Howitt highlighted the role of “creative destruction”. Innovation can render old technologies obsolete. Thus innovations come with externalities – costs or benefits for other parties.
Romer’s research emphasised the positive externalities – namely that ideas are non-rivalrous. For example, we can all use Pythagoras’s Theorem now it has been discovered.
The Aghion-Howitt framework emphasised the negative externalities. New ideas can render old ideas obsolete, thereby deterring innovation in the first place – why invest in R&D now if future R&D will render it all obsolete? But market power protects the rents earned by innovators.
This means, as Aghion and Howitt put it, the average growth rate “depends on the size and likelihood of innovations resulting from research and also on the degree of market power available to an innovator”. What does this mean for wages? Since wages are the returns to labour from economic value created economy-wide, technological progress is needed to drive real wage increases.
Real wage growth (per cent) 2003-2021
Annual real wage growth = annual growth in total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses minus annual growth in underlying consumer price index. Image: ABS
As Paul Krugman put it in 1994: "Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker."
Or, to paraphrase legendary American political strategist James Carville: “It’s the productivity, stupid!”
Enter the Productivity Commission
Australia’s Productivity Commission recently published its “second annual Productivity Insights” report. In the foreword, chairperson Michael Brennan writes: "The decade ending 2019-20 was the worst decade of growth in 60 years, and even if the last year of growth is excluded then this nine-year period still compares unfavourably to past decades. This mainly reflects a global productivity slowdown and the end of the mining investment boom, which has subdued investment and, through lower terms of trade, reduced the purchasing power of Australian incomes."
That’s a pretty good summary of the concerning trends documented in the rest of the report.
The end of the mining boom has seen the Australian dollar drop from about parity with the US dollar to the range of 75-80 US cents. Image: Shutterstock
Let’s take Brennan’s second observation first. The end of the mining boom – you have to squint a little to ignore the current iron-ore price – has seen the Australian dollar drop from about parity with the US dollar to the range of 75-80 US cents. This makes buying goods largely denominated in US dollars – from mining equipment to point-of-sale terminals to computers – more expensive for Australian businesses and households.
It is a good reminder that the oft-mentioned claim a lower Australian dollar is good for exports, while true, ignores the fact we buy lots of capital equipment and consumption goods from overseas. A weaker dollar is bad news for buyers of those goods.
Now to Brennan’s first observation – that the productivity slowdown is a global phenomenon. It has been clear for many years that we live in an age of “secular stagnation” – a term former US Treasury head Larry Summers popularised in 2013.
Read more: Strategic manufacturing: why Australia needs a different approach
Simply put, there is a huge volume of global savings chasing fewer big investment opportunities.
Desperately seeking investment opportunities
Once capital was quite scarce. Now there are now massive sovereign wealth and retirement savings funds all looking to put their money to work. There are also many more billionaires with money to invest.
But where? Once it required huge amounts of capital to build the US railroads, or big oil and steel companies. Now some of the most valuable companies in the world have been created by brilliant students with a laptop in a dorm room.
An even more pessimistic view is that modern technologies are just not that revolutionary.
To drive living standards upward we ideally need to harness technologies to relentlessly improve productivity. Image: Shutterstock
The leading proponent of this “techno-pessimism” is Robert Gordon of Northwestern University in Illinois. He argues in The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Princeton University Press, 2017) that the information technology revolution is a footnote compared to the prosaic inventions of the second industrial revolution, such as electricity, motor vehicles and aircraft.
There are, also, techno-optimists who point to the revolutionary potential of machine learning and other innovations. Wherever one lands on this spectrum, it’s hard to get away from the idea that to drive living standards upward we need to harness technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
The Productivity Commission is on the case. Now we just need Australia’s policy makers to embrace the type of economic reforms pulled off in the 1980s and 1990s, under governments of both political stripes.
Richard Holden is a Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, director of the Economics of Education Knowledge Hub @UNSWBusiness, co-director of the New Economic Policy Initiative, and President-elect of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research expertise includes contract theory, law and economics, and political economy. A version of this post first appeared on The Conversation.
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Why has growth slowed globally? It has something to do with technology
Why has growth slowed globally? The link between productivity, innovation and technology
Richard Holden
Even before COVID-19 hit, Australia was experiencing slow growth in GDP per capita and real wages. There has been a distinctly lower rate of both economic and real wages growth since the financial crisis of 2008-09.
Advanced economies around the world have, to varying degrees, witnessed the same trends. If anything, Australia has done slightly better than other countries. Why has growth slowed globally? That’s a real question.
What theory tells us
Basic economic theory tells us GDP per capita is driven by technological progress. The so-called “neoclassical growth model”, developed in the 1950s by American Robert Solow and Australian Trevor Swan, saw technological progress as exogenous – attributable to an external cause. In a sense, the idea was that innovations just drop from the sky at some fixed rate.
In the early 1990s Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, and Paul Romer pioneered “endogenous growth theory” – that the causes are internal to the economic system. In particular their theory emphasised the development of ideas as crucial to technological progress.
Romer’s contribution was to highlight that producing ideas has large set-up costs but potentially low marginal costs of replication. Think pharmaceutical development, where R&D is very expensive but producing extra pills is cheap.
Since wages are the returns to labour from economic value created economy-wide, technological progress is needed to drive real wage increases. Image: Shutterstock
To make the development of new pharmaceuticals viable, therefore, some degree of monopoly power is required, so others who didn’t invest in developing them can’t simply copy the product. This suggests a crucial role for government policy, such as intellectual property rights and subsidies for basic research.
Aghion and Howitt highlighted the role of “creative destruction”. Innovation can render old technologies obsolete. Thus innovations come with externalities – costs or benefits for other parties.
Romer’s research emphasised the positive externalities – namely that ideas are non-rivalrous. For example, we can all use Pythagoras’s Theorem now it has been discovered.
The Aghion-Howitt framework emphasised the negative externalities. New ideas can render old ideas obsolete, thereby deterring innovation in the first place – why invest in R&D now if future R&D will render it all obsolete? But market power protects the rents earned by innovators.
This means, as Aghion and Howitt put it, the average growth rate “depends on the size and likelihood of innovations resulting from research and also on the degree of market power available to an innovator”. What does this mean for wages? Since wages are the returns to labour from economic value created economy-wide, technological progress is needed to drive real wage increases.
Real wage growth (per cent) 2003-2021
Annual real wage growth = annual growth in total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses minus annual growth in underlying consumer price index. Image: ABS
As Paul Krugman put it in 1994: "Productivity isn’t everything, but, in the long run, it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its output per worker."
Or, to paraphrase legendary American political strategist James Carville: “It’s the productivity, stupid!”
Enter the Productivity Commission
Australia’s Productivity Commission recently published its “second annual Productivity Insights” report. In the foreword, chairperson Michael Brennan writes: "The decade ending 2019-20 was the worst decade of growth in 60 years, and even if the last year of growth is excluded then this nine-year period still compares unfavourably to past decades. This mainly reflects a global productivity slowdown and the end of the mining investment boom, which has subdued investment and, through lower terms of trade, reduced the purchasing power of Australian incomes."
That’s a pretty good summary of the concerning trends documented in the rest of the report.
The end of the mining boom has seen the Australian dollar drop from about parity with the US dollar to the range of 75-80 US cents. Image: Shutterstock
Let’s take Brennan’s second observation first. The end of the mining boom – you have to squint a little to ignore the current iron-ore price – has seen the Australian dollar drop from about parity with the US dollar to the range of 75-80 US cents. This makes buying goods largely denominated in US dollars – from mining equipment to point-of-sale terminals to computers – more expensive for Australian businesses and households.
It is a good reminder that the oft-mentioned claim a lower Australian dollar is good for exports, while true, ignores the fact we buy lots of capital equipment and consumption goods from overseas. A weaker dollar is bad news for buyers of those goods.
Now to Brennan’s first observation – that the productivity slowdown is a global phenomenon. It has been clear for many years that we live in an age of “secular stagnation” – a term former US Treasury head Larry Summers popularised in 2013.
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Simply put, there is a huge volume of global savings chasing fewer big investment opportunities.
Desperately seeking investment opportunities
Once capital was quite scarce. Now there are now massive sovereign wealth and retirement savings funds all looking to put their money to work. There are also many more billionaires with money to invest.
But where? Once it required huge amounts of capital to build the US railroads, or big oil and steel companies. Now some of the most valuable companies in the world have been created by brilliant students with a laptop in a dorm room.
An even more pessimistic view is that modern technologies are just not that revolutionary.
To drive living standards upward we ideally need to harness technologies to relentlessly improve productivity. Image: Shutterstock
The leading proponent of this “techno-pessimism” is Robert Gordon of Northwestern University in Illinois. He argues in The Rise and Fall of American Growth (Princeton University Press, 2017) that the information technology revolution is a footnote compared to the prosaic inventions of the second industrial revolution, such as electricity, motor vehicles and aircraft.
There are, also, techno-optimists who point to the revolutionary potential of machine learning and other innovations. Wherever one lands on this spectrum, it’s hard to get away from the idea that to drive living standards upward we need to harness technologies to relentlessly improve productivity.
The Productivity Commission is on the case. Now we just need Australia’s policy makers to embrace the type of economic reforms pulled off in the 1980s and 1990s, under governments of both political stripes.
Richard Holden is a Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, director of the Economics of Education Knowledge Hub @UNSWBusiness, co-director of the New Economic Policy Initiative, and President-elect of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research expertise includes contract theory, law and economics, and political economy. A version of this post first appeared on The Conversation.
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LOS ANGELES -- Former USC assistant coach Todd McNair filed suit against the NCAA on Friday, alleging that the collegiate athletics governing body wrongfully caused him to lose his job with the Trojans because of punishment handed down last June in the Reggie Bush case.
The suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by ESPNLosAngeles.com, seeks unspecified damages for libel, slander, breach of contract and four other alleged offenses. It also takes issue with the one-sided examination policy established by the NCAA, which doesn't allow those targeted by investigations to cross-examine witnesses used.
McNair, who spent six seasons as USC's running backs coach beginning in 2004, was hit with a one-year show-cause penalty as part of the NCAA sanctions the school received last year, meaning any school attempting to hire him during the year period would have to seek permission from the NCAA to do so.
He appealed the ruling last August, after his contract expired with USC on June 30 and was not renewed, but was denied by the NCAA's Infraction Appeals Committee in April in a separate case from the school's appeal.
The disputed issues in McNair's appeal centered on the believability of one of the NCAA's key witnesses in the case, Lloyd Lake, the would-be sports marketer who allegedly provided substantial amounts of money to Bush over a two-year period while the star running back played for the Trojans. McNair, the NCAA ruled last June, either knew or should have known about Bush's relationship with Lake and purposely misled investigators.
But McNair said that he did not know about the relationship between Lake and Bush, and that the NCAA itself committed misconduct in the process of its investigation, the basis for Friday's suit.
McNair, 45, also claims in the suit that USC intended to extend his contract past June 2010 but couldn't because of the show-cause penalty handed to him by the NCAA.
The NCAA released a statement Monday afternoon saying officials hadn't yet been served with the lawsuit.
"Nonetheless, we are confident actions by the NCAA enforcement staff and Committees were proper and we'll vigorously defend that position in court," the NCAA said in the statement.
Messages left for McNair's lawyers, Bruce Broillet and Scott Carr, at their Santa Monica offices Sunday were not immediately returned.
Pedro Moura covers USC for ESPNLosAngeles.com. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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Specimens can consist Light green beryl crystals to green beryl coloration, with minor dark biotite specks mica ,schist and purple fluorite inclusions.
The dark mica schists within the quartz veins and pegmatites contain gem quality emerald crystals and green beryl. As is typical of Western Australian emerald
Beryl Be3Al2(Si6O18) , Biotite K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2 or Simplified: K(Mg,Fe)3AlSi3O10(OH)2 , Quartz SiO2
Curlew Emerald Mine, Shaw River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearly all production of emerald in Western Australia has been from a deposit at Poona but there are beryl and emerald deposits at Menzies and in the Pilbara region, south of Port Hedland.
Australian emeralds
Emeralds have been commercially mined in Australia in three main deposits Poona and Menzies in Western Australia, and Emmaville in New South Wales. The emeralds are usually in rocks among layers of other minerals such as mica. Open pit mining or terrace mining are the most common methods.
discovered in Western Australia in 1912 at Poona, 500 km north-east of Perth. The main mine of the district was the Aga Khan which operated on and off for more than 70 years until 1980 and yielded an estimated 10,000 grams of mostly low value emerald. During the1980s another mine in WA was worked some 40kms west of Menzies.
In Australia, emerald is associated with granite pegmatites and metamorphosed rocks called schists. It is also sometimes associated with altered limestones or can be found embedded in calcite or quartz. A pegmatite forms when a magma cools, leaving some elements behind in the remaining fluid. Emerald crystals may grow when the remaining solution cools as long as the necessary elements are present, including beryllium. Emeralds can also form in veins in the crust from hot liquids that escape from a deeper magma.
Processing
Screens are used to sort the emeralds by size and then silt and clays are washed away to expose the emerald-bearing schist. No other chemicals are used in this process. Any schist or other rock still attached to the emerald is removed manually in a process called cobbing. Higher quality materials can be cleaned using high-pressure air.
Mining
Emeralds have been commercially mined in Australia in three main deposits Poona and Menzies in Western Australia, and Emmaville in New South Wales. The emeralds are usually in rocks among layers of other minerals such as mica. Open pit mining or terrace mining are the most common methods. Miners dig a pit with shovels, excavators or other earth moving equipment, depending on the scale of the mine. If the emerald-bearing ore is beneath a substantial cover of soil and rock, explosives might be used to remove this material. Sometimes high pressure water is used to blast the rock to reveal mineral bearing rocks. Tunnels are also used to extract emeralds from deeper rock layers.
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N <- 64
x <- rnorm(N)
b <- rep(1/6,6)
a <- 1
y <- signal::filter(b,a,x)
The figure below has two plots. The blue circles are the Gaussian samples. The green circles are the filtered Gaussian samples. The filtered data has less variance.
Complex Data
In engineering the most common kind of complex data is the circularly symmetric gaussian noise. The circularly symmetric part means that the real and complex part are independent and identically distributed. I described the makeCG function in another post, but as you can see the real part and the imaginary part are made using separate calls to the rnorm function.
makeCG <- function(N,v=1) {(sqrt(v/2))*rnorm(N) + (sqrt(v/2))*1i*rnorm(N)}
The function filterComplex filters real or complex data. The function inputs the MA parameters b and the AR parameters a, and the data x. If the data is complex, it makes two filter calls: one with the real part and one with the imaginary part. If the data is real it make one call.
filterComplex <- function(b, a, x) {
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    y <- signal::filter(b,a,Re(x)) + 1i*signal::filter(b,a,Im(x))
  } else y <- signal::filter(b,a,x)
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}
Here we simulate complex Gaussian data and use the function filterComplex to filter it.
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The figure below has two plots. The blue circles are the real part of the complex Gaussian samples. The green circles are the real part of filtered complex Gaussian samples. As expected, the filtered data has less variance.
Now the imaginary part. The blue circles are the imaginary part of the complex Gaussian samples. The green circles are the imaginary part of filtered complex Gaussian samples.


Residents across the east coast of Australia have been urged to be prepared for severe weather and flooding.
The weather Bureau have forecast heavy rain and thunderstorms throughout the remainder of the week, with potential flooding across parts of Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.
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Bureau of Meteorology Hazard Preparedness and Response East Manager Jane Golding said the main areas of concern ranged from Queensland down through to Victoria and included river catchments close to the NSW-Queensland border and along the western slopes in New South Wales.
"Heavy rain and thunderstorms are expected to set in from Wednesday and continue into the weekend, so we're urging people to prepare now," she said.
“Many areas in eastern Australia will see significant rainfall, and some locations in New South Wales and Queensland are likely to see daily rainfall totals of 150 millimetres or higher.
"This kind of heavy rainfall over a short period of time can cause dangerous flash flooding and combined with the fact that many river catchments down the east coast are already quite wet, there is a very real risk that we may see some rivers flood too,” Ms Golding warned.
"Please make sure you're staying up to date with current forecasts and warnings and be careful when you are out and about this week."
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While western Queensland is expected to see three times their November average rainfall in the coming days.
Some gusty south-easterly winds are also expected in Victoria, particularly across southern and mountain areas.
An unusual wind direction, combination with the wet ground, will likely see trees and powerlines bought down across the southern state, along with minor property damage.
"That's why we're warning people early to be prepared for this severe weather system. We want people to ‘know your weather, know your risk’, have the most up-to-date information, and be factoring our forecasts and warnings into their daily planning."
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Current warnings can be found on the Bureau's website here, as well as on the BOM Weather App.
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The governor has once again extended his emergency powers, so the legislature is back in special session this week. Session began Monday and is anticipated to run at least a week, with negotiations taking place between the House and Senate on a handful of issues like bonding, tax cuts, police reform, and supplemental budget spending.
I will continue to advocate an end the Governor’s peacetime emergency powers and return the legislature back to regular order. It’s clear, now more than ever, that after over 120 days of peacetime emergency, we cannot have a single person continue making unilateral decisions. Governor Walz MUST work with the legislature as we continue to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak and get more businesses open safely.
To be clear, ending the peacetime emergency would not mean an end to the state’s response to COVID-19. Instead, it would move Minnesota away from the “emergency” phase of our response and into the “management” phase.
In addition to this, I’m focused on getting a tax bill done that includes full section 179 conformity and making sure local school districts are given full authority to make decisions on returning to school this fall.
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The 33-year-old model recently revealed she's expecting another baby with husband Justin Ervin and she admitted it's been more difficult this time round because she's also having to "run after" 18-month-old son Isaac.
She said: "I always heard that number two you're a lot more tired, you show faster. It's happening, I popped really fast.
"I'm exhausted. I'm running after a toddler. So yes, all the stereotypical things."
Ashley thinks she "over prepared" when she was expecting Isaac, so she's taking a much more relaxed approach this time round.
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She told 'Entertainment Tonight': "I don't know if there is much preparation that can go into baby number two. I feel like I did so much preparation when it came to Isaac, almost to the degree that maybe I over prepared.
"So I'm just making sure that I have the supplies that I need, which is basically nothing. Like, I just look at my boobs and go, 'OK, check check. We got this.' Just need some newborn diapers. Check, check. I'm just not going to overthink it."
And because he is still so young, Ashley doesn't think Isaac fully understands yet that he's going to be a big brother.
Asked how he's handling becoming a big brother, she replied: "I don't know. I said, 'Do you know where the baby is?' and then he points to my stomach. So we got that far.
"And then sometimes he wants to kiss the baby so he goes like this, [kisses]. He curls his top lip in and bottom lip out, it's really sweet. So we got that far, but I don't think he understands the big brother aspect."
Ashley is careful to "watch her words" when speaking about herself in front of her son because she doesn't want to send any negative messages.
She explained: "I've really taken a cue from my mother. Your words have power and I think that it's so important for parents around their children, no matter how old their children are, because even Isaac he's a year and a half and he's picking up on literally everything I say, I do, my mannerisms
"And so if I'm gonna be just completely about myself all the time, he's gonna pick that up innately already at this age.
"So I make sure that I watch my words, I make sure I watch my body movements, or whatever it is. I think that that's the most important thing to do and then it will just continue to pile on.
"My mother never spoke poorly about herself in front of me or my sisters, and I've really taken that to heart. And that's how I wanna raise my kids."


At IWMI, researching underlying economic and social trends helps us understand why people migrate. They also explain the impact of remittances and loss of agricultural labor, as well as consequences of migration on gender roles and food and water security. For instance, communities with higher levels of income inequality, or relative deprivation, may experience greater levels of out-migration compared to consistently low-income communities. In addition, migration changes intra-household gender-labor composition, which can change the access of smallholders to water resources, affecting the functioning of community-based institutions and consequently household and local food security. IWMI also focuses on circular economy, a strategy to recover and reuse waste, to boost food security and understand how interventions can encourage refugee and host communities to retain scarce resources.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Urban & rural transformation
As agricultural opportunities fluctuate in rural areas, migration, particularly to urban areas, is an adaptation technique to secure incomes and alternative livelihoods. Income generated by migrants is often sent back to family as remittances to support communities at home. At IWMI, we assess linkages between rural and urban areas, as well as the role of agricultural knowledge systems and food and water security. We recognize there are complex push and pull factors such as individual aspirations, economic opportunity, social norms, climate variability and government policies which drive migration and affect rural communities, particularly youth. Our work follows a ‘positive migration’ philosophy, framing migration as an adaptation technique and socio-economic choice (in many cases) rather than a problem to be solved, and focuses on establishing safer, more regular migration by supporting changes to migration governance in sending regions.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Covid-19 disruption & adaptation
Covid-19 has caused a rupture in migration logistics and exposed inequities in the migration system, yet drivers of movement remain. Government lockdowns and closed borders due to the pandemic curtailed movement for migrants, posing complex problems for migrant hosting and origin countries. There have been significant economic shocks, with a sharp decline in unemployment for migrants and an inability to send money home through remittances to support family. Some migrants face social stigma for returning home without an income, particularly if families relied on loans to support their journeys. Consequences have been severe for informal migrants who lack government protection in their host countries. Migrants, particularly those living in crowded, lower-income neighborhoods, have been experiencing stigmatization related to the spread of Covid-19. We look at the impacts of Covid-19 on migration governance and rural areas across seven countries, development planning in Ghana, migration challenges in Southeast Asia, and community-based disaster management and resilience building in South Africa.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Water, climate change and agrarian stress
Migration, water and climate stress are inextricably linked to rural development. Water stress and climate variability can act as a driver of fragility, intensifying pre-existing political, social, economic and environmental challenges. Initiatives designed to address migration-related challenges must tackle inequalities and the exclusion of women, youth and marginalized groups; governance opportunities to better manage water and natural resources and technology and innovations to help communities escape socio-ecological precarity and thrive despite climate challenges. IWMI intends to build climate resilience by implementing projects which tackle gender-power inequalities in the face of dynamic, economic-social-ecological challenges. Our work brings together affected communities, institutional stakeholders and social actors to manage water in response to climate variability and agrarian stress, striving to address complex physical and social variables.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Gender, intersectionality and social inclusion
It is critical to center gender and intersectional identities when unpacking migration phenomena. Gender as a social construct guides social norms and relations, including the decision-making processes and mechanisms leading to migration. We recognize that the intersections between race, age, class, sex, caste and region shape the migrant experience.
IWMI strives to offer transformative approaches and solutions for women, youth and marginalized groups, regarding them as equal partners in our work rather than passive end-users. For example, within communities that experience male out migration, socio-political systems are restructured to make women, youth and other groups active agents in their own agri-food transformation. Migration patterns contribute to the feminization of agriculture, and women may experience a greater burden of responsibility coupled with an increased ability to access and control resources and policies to build sustainable livelihoods. Acknowledging social complexities helps researchers and communities understand migration trends and address structural power imbalances to build a more equitable world.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Innovation bundles
Farmer-led irrigation development is about much more than installing a pump in a field. It requires access to financing, labor, energy, and input and output markets, so that investments in irrigation translate into sustainable returns. IWMI uses a systemic approach to understand the farming system as well as the factors in the enabling environment that prevent women, men and youth from engaging in and benefitting equitably from farmer-led irrigation. We partner with farmers and the public and private sectors to test contextually relevant innovation bundles that combine irrigation technology such as solar pumps with financing mechanisms like pay-as-you-own or pay-as-you-go, agricultural inputs and agronomic techniques. We also look at ways to improve on-farm water management and nutrient use efficiency and reduce evapotranspiration through digital advances and agricultural extension. We integrate the scaling of innovation bundles into agricultural value chains to enhance the impacts on farmers’ irrigation investments, incomes and livelihoods.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Gender and social inclusion
The barriers facing women and men in accessing irrigation technologies are not the same. Neither are the benefits. Social, cultural and religious norms influence inter- and intra-household power relations. These, in turn, affect access to resources such as land, credit, information and training. IWMI carries out cross-dimensional analysis of gender and social inclusion in policy, financing, livelihood assets and access, institutional approaches and interventions as well as gender-based technology preferences. For example, we work with farmers, financial institutions and the private sector to address gender-based constraints in credit scoring and enhance women’s purchasing power. But benefitting from farmer-led irrigation does not stop at accessing and adopting technologies; enabling women and resource-poor farmers to participate in input and output markets is equally important to ensure that investments in irrigation result in improved nutrition and economic empowerment. Other ways we enhance gender and social inclusion include tackling agency issues around financial management and literacy, livelihood diversity and social capital as well as access to infrastructure, extension services and market linkages.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Environmental sustainability
Population pressure and increasing water competition in a changing climate require us to take stock of the availability and use of water across scales. Water availability not only influences farmers’ commercial prospects but also irrigation-related enterprises and agri-businesses. Greater water scarcity could jeopardize irrigation and agricultural markets while excessive water use can lead to declining ecosystems, water quality and soil health. IWMI advises development partners and the public and private sectors on all aspects of water resource availability and use through a variety of advanced modeling and remote-sensing products and tools, including Water Accounting+, solar irrigation mapping and internet of things. These are complemented by multi-criteria analysis to evaluate the potential of irrigation expansion, taking into consideration environmental flows. With our private sector partners, we are leveraging converging technologies, such as sensors on solar pumps that capture usage data, to encourage better resource management and governance.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Adaptive scaling and partnerships
The ability of farmers to engage in or expand irrigation depends on the prevailing socioeconomic, ecological and political contexts, which are often complex, non-linear and changeable. Overcoming systemic barriers to farmer-led irrigation development while taking advantage of existing opportunities requires scaling processes to be adaptive. This means diverse actors feed off, adapt to, support, cooperate, compete and interact with each other, forming different multi-actor networks and engaging in collective action to undertake various functions in the scaling ecosystem. IWMI works with farmers and public and private sector partners to co-design and pilot contextually relevant innovation bundles and their scaling pathways or strategies, influence policies and accelerate the transition to scale of innovations with demonstrated early impact.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Financing ecosystem
A lack of affordable credit, particularly for women and resource-poor farmers, is one of the main barriers to expanding farmer-led irrigation in low- and middle-income countries. But credit alone is not enough. Financing for irrigation equipment must be embedded in a wider financing ecosystem that bundles credit with inputs and services, market information and access, and technology such as digital payment. In several countries, irrigation equipment suppliers are stepping in to provide financing directly to farmers. In doing so, they increase their own risk. To address this issue, IWMI works with farmers, private companies, finance institutions and development partners such as the World Bank Group to analyze whether credit-scoring tools are inclusive. We also help to identify gaps in the financing ecosystem and de-risk the private sector from testing innovative end-user financing mechanisms that take into account farming system typologies, financial and social capital and crop seasonality.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
Human capacity development and knowledge exchange
Scaling farmer-led irrigation requires strengthening human capacity and knowledge exchange among all actors and stakeholders involved. IWMI takes an action research approach, working with national and international research institutions, governments, extension agents and public and private organizations to co-develop the scaling ecosystem and strengthen capacity to drive scaling networks and collective action. We support the development of or reinforce national multi-stakeholder dialogues with the aim of sharing scaling experiences and realizing win-win collaboration, interactive learning and capacity development. Other modalities for capacity development include hackathons, innovation research grants for bachelor’s and master’s students, private sector scaling grants and innovation internships with private companies. These all serve to stimulate local and contextually relevant innovation, close the research-private sector divide and enhance job readiness among young professionals.
This focus area contributes to the following One CGIAR impact areas:
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2 fatal crashes reported in Bay Area Thanksgiving morning
Multi-vehicle collisions in Belmont, unincorporated Brentwood
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By Shomik Mukherjee | smukherjee@bayareanewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: November 25, 2021 at 11:25 a.m. | UPDATED: November 25, 2021 at 1:36 p.m.
The early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day saw road collisions in the Bay Area that resulted in at least two deaths.
A four-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Belmont led to the death of a woman, while a three-car pileup in unincorporated Brentwood killed at least one person.
Authorities responded at about 3 a.m. to the northbound lane of Highway 101 near Ralston Avenue in Belmont, where they found a severely damaged green 1991 Honda Accord blocking a lane, as well as three other vehicles that had been involved in crashes.
California Highway Patrol officers suspect the Accord had been disabled by a previous hit-and-run crash that left it facing the wrong way in the left lane without its lights on.
A red 2019 Honda Clarity then crashed into the Accord, sending it spinning across the highway lanes to the right, where it collided with a 2019 Mercedes Benz.
Moments later, a 2013 Toyota Prius crashed into the red Honda, authorities said.
Responding officers found other motorists performing CPR on the driver of the Accord. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Authorities are not releasing her name until next of kin is notified.
Other drivers in the crash were treated for minor injuries, CHP said.
The crash prompted officials to close the northbound lanes for several hours Thursday morning. The lanes were reopened around 11 a.m.
The crash near Brentwood was reported at about 5:51 a.m. at Vasco and Walnut boulevards, in an unincorporated area of Contra Costa County.
A Toyota Corolla was driving south and a Ford F-350 was headed north when one of the vehicles crossed into the opposite lane and the two collided head-on, California Highway Patrol said. A third vehicle was also reportedly involved in the crash.
The driver of the Toyota suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, while another passenger in the car suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital. A medical helicopter was flown to the scene at one point.