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Seafarers Emergency Fund

Philippines seafarers receiving food packages

“The outbreak of COVID-19 on a global scale has brought fear and uncertainty to key workers around the world,” said Captain John Lloyd, chief executive of the Nautical Institute. “Those in the maritime sector have particular anxieties as they are displaced from home, friends, family and the other support mechanisms available to most.  It has never been more important for these

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XPRIZE Invites Innovators to Design New Series of Competitions

The XPRIZE Foundation announced an open call to innovators around the world to help it design future XPRIZEs in five key areas: off-grid energy for the developing world, saving coral reefs, disaster prediction, lifting farmers out of poverty and feeding the next billion. For the first time, XPRIZE will use the HeroX crowdsourcing platform to source hundreds of XPRIZE designs,

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