The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa is looking for 20 Ethiopian students interested in applying for the 2021 EducationUSA Scholars Program (ESP). ESP facilitates access to U.S. higher education for academically talented students from around the world. ESP can help high achieving Ethiopian students with the admissions process for U.S. colleges and universities. The U.S. invests in Ethiopians to produce highly-skilled educated leaders to build tomorrow’s Ethiopia. Interested high achieving students with a score of “A” in STEM subjects in grade 10 national exams, and attending grade 12 this year, are invited to apply for the program by January 28, 2021. Click here for more details and application forms: https://bit.ly/3bUfoL4
There is also a virtual information session arranged to provide details and answer any question about the program on Friday, January 22, 2021 at 4pm. Please use the following Zoom link to attend the session:
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa is looking for 20 Ethiopian students interested in applying for the 2021 EducationUSA Scholars Program (ESP). ESP facilitates access to U.S. higher education for academically talented students from around the world. ESP can help high achieving Ethiopian students with the admissions process for U.S. colleges and universities. The U.S. invests in Ethiopians to produce highly-skilled educated leaders to build tomorrow’s Ethiopia. Interested high achieving students with a score of “A” in STEM subjects in grade 10 national exams, and attending grade 12 this year, are invited to apply for the program by January 28, 2021. Click here for more details and application forms: https://bit.ly/3bUfoL4
There is also a virtual information session arranged to provide details and answer any question about the program on Friday, January 22, 2021 at 4pm. Please use the following Zoom link to attend the session:
Founder Pavel Durov says tech is meant to set you free On Feb. 27, however, he admitted from his Russian-language account that "Telegram channels are increasingly becoming a source of unverified information related to Ukrainian events." Some people used the platform to organize ahead of the storming of the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, and last month Senator Mark Warner sent a letter to Durov urging him to curb Russian information operations on Telegram. As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform.
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