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Sobeski area is near the northeastern tip of the Red Lake Greenstone Belt (RLGB) and the southern end of the Nungesser Lake Greenstone Belt (NLGB)

497 Soil samples taken, some returned values as high as 640 PPB; One large gold-in-soil anomaly with several smaller outlier anomalies

Windfalls AI generated targets in the area were validated in this program along with obtaining a 43-101 on the property

Brossard, Quebec - TheNewswire - Oct 14, 2021 Windfall Geotek (TSXV:WIN) (OTC:WINKF) (FSE:L7C2) a leader in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with advanced knowledge-extraction techniques since 2005 in the mining sector is pleased to announce the filing on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) of the new NI 43-101 report on its 100% owned Sobeski Lake property. Windfall initially identified highly prospective targets on the property and elected to conduct and complete a soil campaign that validated the AI targets in the summer of 2021.

Exploration Summary

Since acquiring the Sobeski Lake Property, Windfall has completed a soil sampling program. A total of 497 samples were taken. The objective of the program was to determine if there were coincident gold-in-soil anomalies over the statistical analysis of the area using Windfalls proprietary AI system that led Windfall to stake the area. The program was designed to cover the AI targets seen in Figure 1. The results of this program were successful as anomalous gold-in-soil samples returned values as high a 640-ppb gold (Figure 2). One large gold-in-soil anomaly was outlined with several smaller outlier anomalies detected.

Geology Context

The Sobeski Lake Property lies at the junction of the northeastern tip of the Red Lake Greenstone Belt (RLGB) of the Uchi Subprovince and the southern end of the Nungesser Lake Greenstone Belt (NLGB) of the Berens River Subprovince. Both Subprovinces belong to the Superior Province of Canada. The Property appears to be underlain by a variety of granitoid intrusive rocks making up the marginal zone between the Trout Lake batholith to the South and the Little Vermilion batholith to the north. The current property boundary mapped the following rock types: 1) Mafic volcanic rocks consisting of medium-grained, schistose with black amphibolite; 2) Clastic metasediments (arkose and greywacke) which grade into biotite gneisses and migmatites and 3) Felsic intrusive rocks of a granite to granodiorite suite (Modified from NI 43-101 Report, Kilbourne, M. &, MacLachlan, B., August 15, 2021).

Figure 1: Windfalls Sobeski Lake Property claims with geology and AI targets

Figure 2: Windfalls Sobeski Lake soil sampling program

Dinesh Kandanchatha, Chairman of Windfall Geotek commented: Over this summer we have made significant advancements in our AI technology including the ability to rapidly process public and private datasets in a portion of the time that it has taken historically. We are leveraging this extraordinary technical leverage to advance our engagements beyond target generation. This 43-101 in Sobeski Lake is accretive to our AI technology and the next phase of value creation for Windfall shareholders..

The scientific and technical data contained in this press release was reviewed and prepared under the supervision of Grigor Heba, Ph.D., P.Geo.,Principal Geologist and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.About Windfall Geotek Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) since 2005

Windfall is an Artificial Intelligence company that has been in business for over 15 years developing its proprietary CARDS analysis (AI) and data mining techniques. Windfall Geotek can count on a multidisciplinary team that includes professionals in geophysics, geology, Artificial Intelligence, and mathematics. It combines available public and private datasets including geophysical, drill hole and surface data. The algorithms designed and employed by Windfall are calculated to highlight areas of interest that have the potential to be geologically similar to other gold deposits and mineralization. The Company's objective is to develop a new royalty stream by significantly enhancing and participating in the exploration success rate of mining and to continue the Land Mine detection application as a high priority. Windfall has played a part in numerous past discoveries utilizing its methodology as described at: https://windfallgeotek.com/.

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This news release contains forward-looking statements, which relate to future events or future performance and reflect managements current expectations and assumptions. Such forward-looking statements reflect managements current beliefs and are based on assumptions made by and using information currently available to the Company. Investors are cautioned that these forward-looking statements are neither promises nor guarantees, and they are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause future results to differ materially from those expected. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and, except as required under applicable securities legislation, the Company does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. All forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements and by those made in our filings with SEDAR in Canada (available at http://WWW.SEDAR.COM).

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The investor sentiment shift towards a conscientious society, a greener planet and improved governance practices is driving all financial institutions, whether big or small, traditional or fintech, to be fully in control of the ESG standings of their investment and underwriting positions, and embed ESG considerations into their reporting and risk management frameworks.

At the start of 2021, we saw a high-profile event where many professional hedge fund managers lost out due to retail investors purposefully making investments to push up stock prices; this activity was coordinated via social media. If firms were using more sophisticated ESG big data mining techniques to take account of sentiment analysis from social media feeds as part of risk monitoring exercises, for example, they would likely have detected that millions of retail customers were taking long positions in companies they were shorting.

Real-time reputational risk monitoring around ESG issues is now commonplace for most tier-one financial institutions. Sentiment monitoring of popular major social media platforms, such as Reddit and Twitter, that use well-chosen search terms can quickly pick up on reputational risk or issues surfacing online about a company.

The same goes for more exhaustive web searches for company references and regulatory filings; such exercises can spot when a company is gaining traction for the right or wrong reasons. Likewise, ESG analysts can use advanced data mining techniques to trawl through controversies or customer complaints and analyse them periodically to find common themes.

But, identifying the right ESG data source, deciphering it and collating it is not straightforward. Whereas financial reporting is standardised and in familiar formats, corporate reporting around ESG dimensions is anything but. Companies are not yet obliged to report most ESG-related information in a standardised manner; therefore, practice is fragmented and disparate. There are few standard templates, meaning that companies will publish different information in different ways.

Much ESG information is also self-reported through periodic sustainability reports and annual reports. Inevitably, this opens the possibility of greenwashing. Understandably enough, corporates are keen to paint themselves in the best light possible.

For that reason, a simple plug and play off-the-shelf ESG score is not good enough any longer. We have seen some firms inadvertently over-invest in carbon due to relying too heavily on these off-the-shelf ESG scores or indeed announcing a sustainability strategy that is incompatible with their current (on or off) balance sheet holdings.

Cutting through the noise, obtaining relevant information quickly, and analysing it effectively, is no small task. We have also seen the opening of something of a two-speed market. Big global institutions have been highly active in either building their own in-house data analytical capabilities for ESG or acquiring one of the new breed of fintech data aggregators or a combination of both. M&A in this space has been prolific.

This means that the big institutions can track data signals across multiple sources and decipher them almost instantly. To adjust their responses, they can react to breaking news or controversies, machine-read legal documents, or even analyse investor sentiments from social media. In recent years, even large credit rating agencies and market data providers went on a buying spree to remain competitive and cater to the ESG and sustainability-related demand. However, it is often far more challenging for smaller players with constrained budgets having to stretch across many competing priorities.

For any manager left in any doubt of the need to prioritise this if nothing else, recent market events should be your wake-up call to cast the data net much, much wider.

If even a sliver of a silver lining can be found in the pandemic, ESG moving well and truly into the mainstream of financial services has to be a good contender. ESG is now well on its way to redefining capital markets as we know it into a more transparent and conscientious one.

Budha Bhattacharya is head of analytics for ESG IQ, developed byKPMGLighthouse. He is also an industrial professor of finance and banking at UCL, Institute of Finance and Technology.

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Born in China, Mr. Tian's interest in science drew him to China Pharmaceutical University in the city of Nanjing. While completing a Bachelor of Science in biotechnology, he discovered that the United States and China had very different philosophies concerning the law and bared extremely different bodies of regulations regarding scientific research. Upon graduation, Mr. Tian relocated to New York and obtained a Master of Science in biology from New York University in 2011.

Thanks to his vast knowledge of data mining and information systems, Mr. Tian was subsequently recruited as an electronic health record consultant by Technical Consulting & Research, Inc. in Weston, Connecticut, from 2011 to 2013. From 2015 until 2017, he found success as a legal intern for Thomson Reuters at the media conglomerate's Eagan, Minnesota, office. During this period, Mr. Tian also earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence, cum laude, from the Law School at the University of Minnesota in 2016.

Since 2018, Mr. Tian has flourished as a research director for Beijing Qiansong Tech Development Co., Ltd., where he utilizes his expertise in patent law to support the advancement and commercialization of pharmaceuticals and technology. In 2019, he acquired two patents, both of which concern the sharing and protection of digital data. Mr. Tian also focuses on harnessing patents to foster a mutually beneficial relationship between the U.S. legal system and the science sector as a whole.

Alongside his responsibilities as a patent lawyer and scientific researcher, Mr. Tian has contributed articles to a number of professional publications and given presentations at several conferences organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He additionally harbors a deep passion for filmmaking and has participated in the creation of multiple short films. In 2014, his short film, "Lost in New York," was selected for an Award of Merit at the IndieFEST Film Awards.

In the coming years, Mr. Tian intends to secure at least two new patents while establishing a new business venture in his hometown of New York City. Though science tends to evolve at a much faster rate than the law, he believes that new laws must eventually be created to regulate the myriad of groundbreaking scientific developments on the horizon. Mr. Tian is proud to help regulatory bodies adapt to the inevitable emergence of new areas of scientific research, especially in relation to health care. In addition to filmmaking, he enjoys swimming and attending Broadway productions in his spare time.

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Colonialism has left a deep and enduring mark on the world. Its roots have anchored themselves across the globe, and its long shadow maintains an unequal balance of power and wealth between the Global North and South.

There are many architects of colonialism, with the East India Company and its complex history of trade monopolies, war and slavery among the most notorious. The company established infrastructure, like railroads and ports, in foreign lands to extract raw materials, which, in turn, were used to manufacture goods. Many of these were often even sold back to the countries from which the materials were taken.This method allowed many imperialist entities to substantially expand their wealth at the expense of others.

Although these practices are largely confined to the past, some suggest big tech companies are following in their footsteps. These companies are, too, accused of engaging in trade monopolies, play a key role in the industry of war, and are even swept up in allegations of benefitting frommodern slaveryprevalent in supply chains. Where goods once traded included cotton, silk or tea, today theyre minerals mined to make electronic components, and information. Although the days of the East India Company areover, is big techtoday partaking in a form of modern colonialism by entrenching themselves in the new power networks of technology and data?

Digital colonialism, says Michael Kwet, a visiting fellow at Yale Law Schools Information Society Project, is the use of technology for the political, economic, and social domination of another territory. Its principally achieved through the ownership and control of the digital ecosystem, comprising software, hardware, network connectivity, data, platforms, and intellectual property (IP). Kwet adds the US is by far the leader, with China and Europe vying to close the gap, alongside some Global South-based corporations seeking to impose their influence abroad, in what he terms South-on-South colonialism.

Big tech takes advantage of a borderless internet to impose its products and services in poorer countries, maintaining its dominance by retaining control over technology and property. This means the Global North, in effect, controls a potentially highly lucrative part of their respective economies, Kwet says making inroads before local companies can. Uber, for instance, had set up in Africabefore African companies could compete on the same footing. Global South populations, in turn, play the role of passive user, consumer, and producer of low-level goods and services, ranging from mining to sweatshop labour.

Colonialists of the past established trade monopolies, frequently engaged in warfare and built the slave trade industry

To expand its empire across the Global South, Kwet says tech firms employvarious tactics. They setthe rules, like IP, and seizethe first-mover advantage. They also take advantage of networks by blocking interoperability between platforms, which could allow many services to operate instead of just a few.

Instead of colonising the land and establishing infrastructure for extraction, Kwet continues, through digital colonialism, tech giants colonise the technology for data extraction and rent. He adds that networks like Facebook extract data, process it on server farms, and use it to provide services in a scenario in which the South cannot compete. He explains the North also has heavy machinery in place, like cloud centres, that are required for data-driven services. Kwet says these arent easy to replicate,and are comparable to machinery once used to drill deep beneath the surface to mine minerals like diamonds and gold.

Big tech takes advantage of relationship patterns that were established historically, argues Olufunmilayo Arewa, Shusterman professor of business and transactional law at Temple University. In Africa, she says, European powers once exercised control over social, political, and economic institutions, with countries integrated into the global economic system primarily as a source of raw materials, including peopleand agricultural products. The colonies, in turn, imported manufactured goods from the powers that controlled them. Arewa believes these patterns are mirrored in the modern era, as African nations still maintain similar economic relationships with external powers with an added digital dynamic.

African countries are an important source of raw materials for the industrial and digital economies, including metals such as tantalum, which is important for electronic components, she says. Many countries in Africa, however, remain economically marginalised, in important respects, and a capacity gap is evident, particularly in key skills needed in the digital economy.

She says the introduction of new technologies draws attention to lawmaking within Africa, as many current laws and regulations were put in place before the digital revolution. The poor fit of existing regulations, many of which may predate modern technologies and business practices, isan issue of ongoing contestation globally, with the lack of regulatory oversight giving tech companies a green light to experiment in various territories as they see fit.

Undoing digital colonialism, Arewa suggests, would involve establishing relationships not built on colonial parallels. This would mean engaging with countries in the Global South as partners, rather than grounds for exploitation, she says. Several measures can be adopted from a trade perspective, meanwhile, according to Abhijit Das, head of the Centre for World Trade Organisation (WTO) Studies at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade. He believes there should be no obligations on digital issues in free trade agreements at the WTO, such as forcing countries to liberalise e-commerce, with these agreements now the most important legal instrument for exacerbating digital colonisation. Countries should also have the flexibility to impose restrictions on cross-border data flows, and mandate localisation of servers within their territory. This, Abhijit says, will help developing countries create a vibrant domestic digital sector without becoming dependent on imports of digital products.

He adds countries must also be able to tax digital players, and nations must not be arm-twisted into not imposing taxes on foreign suppliers of digital services either. This is on top of governments being able to sufficiently regulate the digital sector, in light of provisions in existing trade agreements that tie the hands of governments.

The continued appropriation of data from the stream of the collective human experience is a phenomenon of historical significance, comparable with the original land grab, says Nick Couldry, professor of media, communications and social theory at LSE. He believes this data colonialism exacerbates historic power dynamics with regards to the worlds resourcesgiven that data, and the value derived from it, represents a completely new type of asset to grab and appropriate.

The continued appropriation of databy companies thriving in Silicon Valleyhas been likened to the original land grab

Couldry adds historiccolonialism evolved over the course of four centuries into complex imperialist political structures and cultures of racism. Its much too early to say, therefore, if data colonialism will ever evolve in the same way. He says, however, the underlying principles of colonialism, which centred on imposing Western superiority to appropriate resources across the world, will continue through the rhetoric of big data. This language of dataism, he adds, is based around the idea that the maximum amount of data must always be gathered, whatever the cost.

Data colonialism can, in principle, thrive everywhere, so it takes place not only in the Global South but also in the North. Ultimately, though, the key targets for data extraction will always be shaped by historical colonialism, Couldry continues, leaving many African countries vulnerable to the Trojan Horse offerings by companies like Facebook. He uses Facebook Free Basics as an example of a free, limited internet service for developing markets that was found to ignore local sites and prioritise Western ones instead. Where we think data colonialism is headed, as it grows within the power structures already inherited from capitalism, Couldry explains, is to make possible an entirely new type of social and economic order, based on much more intensive governance of people in the interests of value extraction."

The only way to end digital colonialism, Kwetadds, is by reconstructing the digital economy in a way that strips out the system of private property and production for profit, and replaces it with one organised by society to service society on egalitarian terms. This includes free and open source software, a phasing out of IP, stronger privacy laws, and a digital tech deal that would fund the production, maintenance, and access to technology for everyone. This must be formulated collectively by people across the world, he says, fuelled by a movement that intersects with broader political, economic, and social justice ambitions.

Couldry says hes optimistic about resisting data colonialism in the long term, provided were not misled by false solutions. He says a good starting point would be to imagine a world that refuses to intensify data colonialism and instead relies less on data-extracting platforms for the conduct of our daily lives. For this to be effective, though, it must be through collective means, as theres no other way to resist something as large as an entire social order except by imagining and starting to live out a different one.

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