Moji Motions

Innovation policies are government measures designed to encourage new ideas, technologies, and business models, including but not limited to funding for research, grants, regulation changes, public procurement, tax breaks, and support for startups or universities. Large-scale public research programs are big and long-term projects funded and often coordinated by the state, universities, or public agencies. They usually focus on mission-driven goals like clean energy, vaccines, space, infrastructure, or AI safety. Tax incentives are tax reductions or exemptions meant to encourage investment in new businesses. Venture capital (VC) is money invested in early-stage companies that are high-risk but may grow very quickly, VC firms usually provide funding in exchange for equity, meaning they own part of the company.

Solution journalism is an approach that focuses on identifying and proposing responses to complex social problems. Instead of merely highlighting problems, it seeks out constructive stories about solutions that have been successfully implemented, with the aim of inspiring action and encouraging positive social change. The goal of solution journalism is to promote improvement and progress in society. Traditional watchdog journalism is aimed at monitoring and checking power. It focuses on scrutinising the actions of governments, organisations, and powerful individuals in order to ensure transparency, honesty, and accountability in how they govern and operate. Traditional watchdog journalism reports on wrongdoing, corruption, abuses of power, and other unlawful or unethical activities.

Adaptive preferences are preferences formed in the unconscious response to oppression. They are formed when oppressed groups 'bend aspiration towards expectation' in light of their experiences of oppression. In the context of the women's liberation movement, examples of adaptive preferences occur on a spectrum ranging from choosing to pursue conventionally feminine careers to wearing the hijab to engaging in sex work. The degree to which choices are the result of adaptive preferences varies from context to context.

"Lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) are a type of autonomous military system that can independently search for and attack targets without direct human intervention based on programmed constraints and descriptions."

4B is a movement growing among Korean women in response to the relentless sexism, inequality and misogyn in South Korea. 4B is short for saying no to: 1. Dating men 2. Heterosexual relationships 3. Heterosexual marriage 4. Childbirth"

Nationalism is the idea that a person's nation is superior to all others. It is the emergence of a group identity based upon a shared sense of history, cultural, ethnic, or linguistic ties. The difference between nationalism and patriotism is the feeling of superiority; in the eyes of nationalists, loyalty to and pursuing the interests of the nation are more important than anything else. States often curate nationalism by incorporating nationalist ideas in school curriculums, national symbols, monuments, etc.

Blockchain is a kind of record-keeping technology which stores data in blocks that it chains together chronologically each time new data is added, creating an ever-expanding link of information that is continuously verified by a vast network of server farms and individual "miners." This peer-to-peer verification keeps the information very secure, but also results in an extremely high electricity consumption to maintain the networks (currently estimated at over 130 Terrawatt hours in a year, or 0.6% of global electricity consumption). A basic purpose of Blockchain is to be able to assign a unique identity to a tradeable piece of digital information, preventing attempts to alter or replicate it (because the peer-to-peer verification system mentioned above would detect such violations). A core use of Blockchain is cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Etherium, which are able to function as a decentralized currency without a central bank or government’s control. The blockchain is used to store a ledger of transactions on each coin, and the verification system keeps in place an artificial scarcity that prevents more from being "printed out." Some other examples include the NFT (Non-Fungible Token) - a way of trading "ownership" of digital art by storing unique links to art pieces in blockchain form - as well as digital collectibles.