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The founder and CEO of ESTCORP Dr Ott Pärna 🎤 lead the Seminar on the Future of Remote Sensing for the managers of the administrative area of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia.

The seminar was organised jointly by the Estonian Academy of Security Sciences Remote Sensing R&D Centre and the Ministry of Interior, and it focused on the future of cross-institutional satellite-, drone- and sensor-based remote sensing. In addition to inspirational speeches and presentations, the seninar had a world café style discussion on the following five topics: technology, data, collaboration, people, and policy, legislation and regulation. The remote sensing seminar took place on October 20th, 2020, at the Ministry of Interior.

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Photos: Tiina Ristmäe/Cursor, Kaupo Voormansik/ESA, AliaksaB/Shutterstockh

This year's Delta Trends Day 2021 focused on future talent and the role of the university in their development. 🧐

Almost 40 experts in their field from seven countries on three continents shared their thoughts and ideas on building the university of the future. Just as the organisers chased the world class in terms of content, they once again experimented with formats and technology. Whoever listened-watched can evaluate the result. Dr Ott Pärna contributed to the event as one of the organisatisers and moderators. 🤩

📸 Below you will find a photo gallery by Karl Saul.

👍👍👍 Many thanks to the contributors, volunteers, speakers and all viewers-listeners! And I wish you a successful innovation with universities, university cities and other talent development centres!

Hiring tips from the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS): 👉 "Employers should factor the passion and values of prospective new hires rather than their productivity output or academic qualification as Singapore movers towards more inclusive hiring." 👍

A new report is out today - from UNDP (co-authored by UCL prof. Geoff Mulgan) on using collective intelligence methods for achieving the SDGs, showcasing the work of the Accelerator Labs in dozens of countries around the world. Its a glimpse of a very different way of doing policy and solving problems that hopefully becomes mainstream in the future.

Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Development: Getting Smarter Together "Collective Intelligence for Sustainable Development: Getting Smarter Together" is a report series from the UNDP Accelerator Labs and Nesta's Centre for Collective Intelligence Design that surveys the current state of the field and suggests key areas for action to make the most of the combined effor...

👆👆👆 You can never be productive if you take on too many responsibilities. And it’s the ability to say No that actually separates highly productive people from those running behind!

If you’ve ever struggled with turning down someone, here is a list of 8 ways to say No respectfully without feeling guilty 🤩

1. Separate refusal from rejection
2. Ask more questions
3. Take time to process the request
4. Don’t make people wait too long
5. Be assertive and courteous
6. Offer alternatives, not excuses
7. Choose respect over popularity
8. Make your peace

Read more below!

How to Say No with Greater Confidence 8 ways to say no respectfully – without feeling guilty.

🤔🤔🤔 A pandemic lockdown might be a fruitful time for other introverts. Isaac Newton was at Cambridge University when, in 1665-66, the bubonic plague broke out. Like schools and universities today, Cambridge closed and sent its students home. Newton was stuck on his family estate in rural Lincolnshire. Young Newton spent endless hours alone in nature, in pensive absorption. 🍎 Once he saw an apple fall from a tree, and realized that it responded to the same force as the moon orbiting the earth, which led him to a theory of gravity. 🌈 He also observed light in its many colors and began thinking about optics. And he applied his logic to nature in a way that led him to pioneer calculus. Historians now call Newton’s quarantine his annus mirabilis, or miracle year. For introverts who are drained by the random noise of small talk, it's your time to shine. Take this time to think, read, tinker, or discussing something in depth. Good things can be found when going deep. https://trib.al/zDvRYYA

Opinion | A pandemic lockdown might be a fruitful time for other introverts. Isaac Newton was at Cambridge University when, in 1665-66, the bubonic plague broke out. Like schools and universities today, Cambridge closed and sent its students home. Newton was stuck on his family estate in rural Lincolnshire. Young Newton spent endless hours alone in nature, in pensive absorption. 🍎 Once he saw an apple fall from a tree, and realized that it responded to the same force as the moon orbiting the earth, which led him to a theory of gravity. 🌈 He also observed light in its many colors and began thinking about optics. And he applied his logic to nature in a way that led him to pioneer calculus. Historians now call Newton’s quarantine his annus mirabilis, or miracle year. For introverts who are drained by the random noise of small talk, it's your time to shine. Take this time to think, read, tinker, or discussing something in depth. Good things can be found when going deep. https://trib.al/zDvRYYA

The Sharing Economy May Never Be the Same.

Not surprisingly, car-sharing demand has declined, according to Turo, though the company would not quantify the dropoff. Car-swap platforms benefits from so-called network effects: the more people who use them, they better they work (and the more richly they are valued by investors like IAC and Softbank). In just a few weeks, however, Coronavirus has reversed and weaponized that chummy feedback loop. Volume, scale, foot traffic—all dirty words at the moment.

The equation is similar across the sharing economy, from the dress racks of Rent-the-Runway to the scooter fleets of San Francisco. Green, the therapist, says consumers are running risk algorithms in their heads at a frenzied pace, a pace that will be hard to slow.

“Are people going to want to come to my Airbnb? Do I want people in my Airbnb?” she wonders. “I do think it’s going to have an impact on how willing we are to engage in the same sorts of social transactions we did before.”

Sunday Strategist: The Sharing Economy May Never Be the Same Breaking down the boldest bets in business

announced it is willing to share all its digital education tools to support other countries’ systems during the crisis.

Estonia offers its digital education solutions for free to support other countries Estonia announced it is willing to share all its digital education tools to support other countries’ education systems during the COVID-19 crisis.

“To our amazement, the work-from-home employees were far from goofing off — they increased productivity by 13.5 percent over those working in the office.“

Why working from home should be standard practice And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her.