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Yee spent the summer of 2019 at the Istanbul center working as a Global Thought intern, helping build a database of scholars for future programing. 

India is the third largest startup ecosystem in the world, behind only the United States and China, according to a recent report by Nasscom and Zinnov. Startups are supported by incubators, typically in the early stages of product and customer development. Incubators add value by providing coaching and mentorship, workspaces and makerspaces, and by interfacing with other stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem critical to startup success.

Women’s participation in India’s labor force has shrunk from 28% to 23% in the decade between 2008 and 2018, according to the International Labor Organization, and is ironically, much lower in urban areas and among women with secondary education. To probe the pitfalls and potential of India’s burgeoning digital industries in providing gender parity at work, Columbia Global Centers | Mumbai organized a one-day workshop, ‘Women, Work, and the Web: From Exclusion to Opportunity’ on June 28, 2019.

The Earth Institute at Columbia is helping Chile’s National Meteorological Service implement the Next Generation of Seasonal Climate Forecasts.