The UK and Japan are teaming up to turbocharge their tech and data partnership. With combined IT sectors worth over £406bn, this new partnership will focus on improving the resilience of key supply chains, like semiconductors and telecommunications.
The partnership will also support joint research and development initiatives and align digital regulation to make it easier for businesses to operate in both countries.
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Source: WEFTI
We are on the way to become the leading global integrator of trade. In the meantime we move around 12 million containers a year. This is 17% of all containers moved in the world.
If we line them up, they would be able to go around the globe 🌍 almost 4 times.
Today we celebrate the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden.
On 10 December 1901 the first Nobel Prizes were awarded, in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace. Since then the economy prize has been added to the list of awards.
The prize ceremonies take place annually. Each recipient receives a gold medal, a diploma and a monetary award. In 2021, the Nobel Prize monetary award is 10,000,000 SEK.
In Sweden we are proud of this institution, by many considered the most prestigious award in the world. It is a driver for scientific research, development and innovation and the awarded laureates’ innovations have saved the life of millions of people.
Here are the winners this year:
Peace: Ales Bialiatski, organization Memorial and organization Center for Civil Liberty
Physics: Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger
Chemistry: Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless
Ecomomics: Ben S. Bernanke ä, Douglas W. Diamond, Philip H. Dybvig
Physiology and Health: Svante Pääbo
Litterature: Annie Ernaux
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