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The difference between the ocean perspective and the land perspective

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Different perspectives on the map are important

What do you think is the biggest difference between the ocean perspective and the land perspective?

COVID19 Places: India

This essay scaffolds a discussion of how COVID19 is unfolding in India. A central question this essay hopes to build towards is: If we examine the ways COVID19 is unfolding in India, does "Ind

COVID19 India Group November 2020 Update

This is a collage made from the visuals discussed by this artifact's contributors at the T-STS COVID19 India Group meeting on November 24, 2020

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Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)

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Does this organization claim to have a new or unique way of addressing the problems that they work on? Does their approach point to or suggest problems with other approaches?

It was a new way of addressing disaster in 1971 when it was founded.

“It’s simple really: go where the patients are. It seems obvious, but at the time it was a revolutionary concept because borders got in the way. It’s no coincidence that we called it ‘Médecins Sans Frontières.’”