Nairobi-based tech entrepreneur Kate Kallot at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva, July 2025. (Geneva Solutions/Maurizio Arseni)

🤖Kate Kallot: ‘The AI revolution is being written in Africa, not Silicon Valley’. She was one of the only speakers representing an African company at last week’s AI for Good summit. With her Nairobi-based startup Amini.ai, the tech businesswoman wants to lead an AI revolution in Africa, where global tech companies have so far failed to venture.

🍟Who is Lynda Blanchard, Trump’s pick for the top UN food agencies post? The Christian conservative and MAGA movement member from Alabama, who has served as US ambassador to Slovenia, is waiting for the Senate’s green light to represent the US in Rome.

🛂Russian and Ukrainian politicians expected to attend Geneva event. The heads of the warring nations’ parliaments are registered to attend the International Parliamentary Union’s conference end of July. Two Russian delegates will need an exemption to enter the territory.

🤝WTO overhaul targets fairer trade, easier decision-making to end paralysis. Member states, meeting this week for consultations, are considering reviewing decision-making rules and developing nations' privileges as part of year-long reform talks ahead of March's ministerial meeting in Cameroon.

🧬Gesda unveils new ‘anticipatory science diplomacy’ framework. In a new report, the Geneva-based foundation makes the case for overhauling diplomacy, deemed overly focused on immediate events that prevent it from preparing for the fast-paced scientific advances.