Cambodia has a chronic lack of an educated professional workforce to provide the teachers, trained nurses, accountants, engineers, doctors and administrators needed to build an economically and socially healthier and stronger country. Opportunity Cambodia is helping to change this situation At the end of 2018 their first group of high school students passed the National Exam and became eligible to apply to university. This is an impressive achievement for young people who come from the poorest families, where parents are illiterate and have little hope for the future.
You can donate to help, connect them with a school or volunteer. Volunteers need to have tertiary education or?training, energy, imagination, adaptability, commitment
AND be over the age of 18, want to stay at least one month and be happy to live during the week in a rural village
French defence authorities are aiming to improve public safety by challenging science fiction writers to dream up life-threatening plots for their army to solve. Writers have been briefed to create stories with challenging threats. It will then be up to the army and France?s other defence forces to devise counter moves to neutralise the threats, save lives and secure premises. Among the global risks most likely to dominate civil defence agendas in the near future are climate change, cyberattacks and natural disasters.
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Google Maps is rolling out its AR navigation, Google Live View. When you?re using Google Maps for directions, you simply navigate to ?Walking? when presented with transit options and then tap ?Live View.? You?ll see arrows and big street markers laid out on the real world in front of you, so you can orient yourself quickly instead of spinning around in every direction.
The augmented reality feature is launching in beta on ARKit-compatable iOS devices and and ARcore-compatable Androids.
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WordFlow is an Australian company with new smart software that converts Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word documents to an easily searchable HTML format. It performs in more than 100 languages, tags critical words on every page; and, boasts superior security to other formats.To prove that WordFlow's software could dramatically increase the number of visitors to a website the Banking Royal Commission's final report was downloaded and digitised to become the most popular unofficial provider of the report.
Every page in the report is now searchable so anyone can seek out any aspect of the findings without having to read the entire document.
