AI By The People, For The People: The Indian Workers Behind AI
July 29th, 2023
AI data workers are often among the poorest people in the world, despite providing the lifeblood of a multibillion dollar industry. Karya, an Indian nonprofit, promises to do things differently: not only paying workers high wages, but also royalties. The model doesn’t exist anywhere else. Here is an interesting look at whether Karya’s alternative model can […]
Read more »A Goldilocks Moment for India in the U.S.-China Subsea Cables Race?
July 29th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a report on how – India’s capacity to produce fiber cables – paired with U.S. capability to lay them on the seabed, presents a prime opportunity for New Delhi: At a time when the U.S. is significantly enhancing its presence and primacy across the length and breadth of the Indo-Pacific, the recent […]
Read more »First Quantum Starts Output at Africa’s Biggest Nickel Mine
July 29th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, an article on Zambia’s nickel industry: First Quantum Minerals Ltd. started production at what is set to turn into Africa’s biggest nickel mine, furthering Zambia’s aim of becoming a key supplier of battery metals for the electric vehicle revolution. Output at the Enterprise mine in the country’s North-Western Province has commenced, with a new […]
Read more »Why VinFast is Struggling In the US Electric Vehicle Market
July 28th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at how the Vietnamese automotive firm’s planned conquest of the American EV market has hit a number of hurdles: Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast made waves when it announced it would be jumping directly into the U.S. auto market and constructing a $4 billion manufacturing facility in North Carolina. […]
Read more »Yemen Speciality Coffee ‘Wave’ Sweeps War-Hit Capital
July 28th, 2023
Via The Frontier Post, an article on the revitalization of Yemen’s coffee industry: Tucked amid shell-pocked buildings and roadside tributes to fallen fighters, a less obvious byproduct of wartime is spreading across Yemen’s capital: speciality coffee houses serving steaming cups of top-rated pour-over. The Arabian Peninsula’s most impoverished country, locked in an eight-year conflict between […]
Read more »Burkina Faso Fashion Designer Weaves New Life into Ancient Fabric
July 28th, 2023
Via Reuters, a report on one entrepreneur’s efforts to weave new life into Burkina Faso’s ancient fabric: Amid the rhythmic clatter of traditional wooden looms, artisans at a workshop in rural Burkina Faso spin indigo-dyed cotton into sprawling lengths of cloth, destined for modern suits designed by the nation’s foremost couturier. Twenty years ago, Paris-based […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.