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Five Breakthroughs Transforming Emerging Market Cities
From e-buses to wetlands, a new playbook is emerging across Asia and Africa.
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Abhas K. Jha
Edge Signals August 22, 2025: The City AI Readiness Ladder
Cities are being pitched AI solutions for everything from floods to finance.
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Abhas K. Jha
Edge Signals – Weekly Brief Edition · 1 Aug 2025
From Space Pixels to Street-Level Action: GeoAI’s Planetary Intelligence Unleashed
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Abhas K. Jha
Edge Signals: This Week’s Reading (& Listening) Shelf in Tech, Policy & Leadership
Article – “Making AI Track the City’s Hottest Blocks” (Axios Boston)
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Abhas K. Jha
Edge Signals: This Week’s Reading (& Listening) Shelf in Tech, Policy & Leadership
“Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty” – Rest of World (9 Jul 2025) A crisp look at how Indonesia, Nigeria, and Brazil are…
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Abhas K. Jha
Invisible Infrastructure: Why the Next Wave of Urban Climate Finance Must Be Digital
From Nairobi to Nagpur, the world is waking up to the staggering cost of climate-resilient urbanization: $256–821 billion per year through 2050.
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Abhas K. Jha
Summer 2025 Book Recommendations
These are books I read recently and not necessarily published in 2025.
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Abhas K. Jha
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The Urban Stack is a newsletter about how cities in emerging markets can use AI, data, and smart systems to solve real operational problems—from finance to floods—in ways that actually work on the ground.
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