Online Education Adaptability for South African Learners with Dyscalculia and Dyslexia using Digital Learning Methods by Winiswa Mavutha, Aradhana Ramnund Mansingh

“… The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 defines equal and inclusive education. Countries of the global south, including South Africa, have several interventions to achieve before making headway on this goal. …”
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Chatbot Programmes’ ‘Arms Race’: Africa and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics by Tapiwa Chagonda

“…The benefits of AI generative technologies such as chatbots in fields such as the academy; health; agriculture; music and art, have been touted in recent times, but the ethical concerns around issues of bias; possible proliferation of misinformation from algorithms that are trained on datasets that are not fully representative of the global South’s realities, especially Africa; breaches in privacy issues and threats of job losses, still linger. …”
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Resisting scientific extractivism: A post-extractivist policy of knowledge production with marginalized communities by Baptiste Godrie

“…This analysis is based on pioneering work on this subject, particularly in a context of the relationship between the Global North and the Global South, such as those of Rivera Cusicanqui (2010), Tuhiwai Smith (2012), Betasamosake Simpson (Klein 2013), Gudynas (2013) or Grosfoguel (2016a, 2016b). …”
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A scalability-centric perspective on global human development within environmental limits by Soumyajit Bhar, Chirag Dhara

“…This study underscores the continued need to prioritize scalability in the future and recommends shifting the narrative to countries that exemplify scalable development to provide strategic insights to the Global South.…”
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Raising awareness and addressing inequities for people with Down syndrome in South Africa by Eimear McGlinchey, Juan Fortea, Bulela Vava, Yvette Andrews, Kirti Ranchod, Atholl Kleinhans

“…These challenges are further compounded by racial disparities as well as a lack of awareness, research, and support, particularly in the Global South. This commentary discusses the multifaceted challenges and disparities encountered by people with DS in South Africa, highlighting the need for targeted interventions. …”
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Balancing globalisation process through Development Agenda: sustainable global justice by S. M. Aamir Ali, A. Ghose

“…This process further exacerbated the existing division between the global north and global south, leading to a heightened level of separation between these two regions. …”
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Migración haitiana de tránsito: la ruta migratoria por Santiago de Chile y la aspiración de llegar hacia el norte global by Lissette Madriaga-Parra, Nicolás Gissi-Barbieri

“…Despite their aspirations for better job opportunities, they increasingly face similar challenges, such as precarious living conditions, difficulties in regularizing immigration status, and systemic racism, mirroring those in the Global South.…”
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Scaling deep at the margins: coproduction of nature-based solutions as decolonial research praxis in Cape Town by Patience Mguni, Lise Byskov Herslund, Amber Louise Abrams, Kirsty Carden, Craig Tanyanyiwa, Julia McLachlan, Rachelle Schneuwly, Neil Armitage

“…We conclude that sustainability transitions in the Global South may be more productively understood as contested, seldom-complete endeavours in which justice remains the goal.…”
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Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición by María Cecilia Roa García, Alejandro Quecedo del Val, Nils Lagrève, Ana Manuela Amaya Morales

“…Cañaverales represents thousands of communities across the Global South that have sustained relationships of care, awe, reciprocity, and attunement with their territories—what we call beloved places. …”
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Balancing Earth science careers in an unequal world by Nadia Testani, Lucía M. Cappelletti, Leandro B. Díaz, Camila Prudente, Valentina Rabanal, Julia Mindlin, Reyk Börner, Divya David T, Ismaila Diallo, Inés M. Leyba, Marisol Osman, Andrés Tangarife-Escobar

“…We assess challenges and propose ways to balance the careers of early- and mid-career researchers in the Global South with those in the Global North.…”
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Political-legal foundations of interaction between Russia and Mongolia as states-civilizations by A. S. Zhelezniakov, S. V. Nikiforov, S. Chuluun

“…For Russia, the priority task is to fi new grounds in the turn to the East to intensify relations with the countries of the Global South and border states. The authors use the tools of civilizational political science to consider the political-legal foundations of interaction between Russia and Mongolia as states-civilizations - the contractual basis and political discourse that determine the key directions of development of relations between Russia and Mongolia under Russia’s turn to the East. …”
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Exploring Conditions for Designing Citizen Observatories in Sri Lanka: The Case of Air Quality in Rural Areas by Chaminda Rathnayake, Somya Joshi, Teresa Cerratto-Pargman

“…While CO projects conducted in the Global North have successfully engaged citizens, less is known about how they engage with citizens in rural areas in the Global South. Herein, we address this knowledge gap by exploring conditions for designing COs in rural areas in Sri Lanka. …”
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Climate emergency and vocational education and training. Topic of scientific interest: A systematic review of the literature by M.ª de Fátima Poza Vilches, Susana Ripoll Martín, Mª Teresa Pozo Llorente

“…The results have revealed growing scientific production, especially in Europe and the global south, with a predominance of theoretical studies over participatory ones. …”
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CO2lonialismo y geografías de esperanza by Julianne Hazlewood

“…Expounding on the ecological debt of the Global North to the Global South, this paper condemns discourses and actions that solely focus on improving the economic climate while bulldozing rainforests, livelihoods, and real solutions to climate change.…”
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Innovations and barriers in sustainable and green finance for advancing sustainable development goals by Raghu Raman, Suparna Ray, Dayana Das, Prema Nedungadi

“…The study underscores the necessity of innovative and inclusive financial mechanisms to mobilize capital flows aligned with the priorities of the Global South. Future research directions include the development of advanced data analytics, adaptation to local contexts, technological integration, and exploration of the social dimensions of sustainable finance. …”
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How Capital Intervention Impacts Rural Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Two Suburban Villages near Wuhan by Yongwei Tang, Yong Zhou, Hui Ci, Helin Liu, Mei Luo, Ying Xu, Maomao Zhang

“…This comparative study of the two villages can provide insights into policy formulation for the purpose of rural revitalization in China and other countries in the Global South undergoing rapid urbanization.…”
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Historical bias in palaeontological collections: Stylophora (Echinodermata) as a case study by Pauline Guenser, Khadija El Hariri, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Bertrand Lefebvre

“…This scientific practice, better known as “parachute science”, often implies a transfer of material from their country of origin (in the Global South) to another country of collection (in the Global North). …”
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Inter-agency collaboration in building urban fire resilience in Indonesia: how do metropolitan cities address it? by Ahmad Harakan, Yusuf Adam Hilman, A. Junaedi Karso, Awaluddin Awaluddin, Nurhalijah Nurhalijah, Indah Sidrawaty Muin, Aldy Nurdiansyah B, Arfan Fadillah, Rudi Hardi

“…IntroductionUrban fire disasters pose a significant challenge to city resilience and sustainability, particularly in the Global South, where rapid urbanization exacerbates existing vulnerabilities. …”
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One hundred years of zoonoses research in the Horn of Africa: A scoping review. by Lisa Cavalerie, Maya Wardeh, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Mark Nanyingi, K Marie McIntyre, Mirgissa Kaba, Daniel Asrat, Robert Christley, Gina Pinchbeck, Matthew Baylis, Siobhan M Mor

“…Finally, we found that a minority of international collaborations were between Global South countries with a high proportion of authors having affiliations from outside the Horn of Africa.…”
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New Development Bank as Aid Donor to School Education by Rodion Sadykov, Yevgeny Uchaev

“…At the same time, stagnating aid volumes and the increasing politicization of educational aid by traditional donors, coupled with persistent needs to improve education systems in many developing countries, underscore the challenge for BRICS states to develop more effective mechanisms for educational cooperation—both within the bloc and with the broader Global South.…”
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