From brain drain to brain gain – expats returning home due to COVID boost local economies

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Expats forced home in the wake of COVID are helping build the cross-border networks needed for global innovation, according to futurist Ross Dawson.

They’re the elite of Silicon Valley but they don’t live in Palo Alto. They’re expats at home for the first time in years, looking for new opportunities. Their employers no longer care where they work.

These are the digital nomads of COVID. People who can choose to work anywhere they want, and who are driving a reverse brain drain unlike anything seen before.
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2021: A year of excitement and positive change

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2020 will go down in history, not just as a year of pandemic, but also one of transformation.

As we push into 2021, we need to consider our mindset for the year.

Many people I speak to are excited about the coming year.
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Country comparisons of COVID-19

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While there are plenty of excellent data sources and visualizations of the state of the COVID-19 pandemic globally, I haven’t seen ones that provide the comparisons that I’m looking for, so I created this chart:


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