Apr 28, 2016 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity
Today we were honored to host Mark Tiele Westra, the AkvoFLOW product manager who, with GSN research fellow Mike Dover, discussed AkvoFLOW and the new Akvo Caddisfly water monitoring product. They also discussed the complex challenges of developing a smartphone-based...
Apr 18, 2016 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity
It’s common knowledge that many of the jobs currently performed by humans will be taken over in the years to come by technology or robots. That’s the finding of a recent Pew research survey that showed that more than half of Americans are certain that...
Apr 18, 2016 | Employment & Prosperity
GSN is hosting a GSNs at Work webinar Thursday, April 28, 2016—11:00 AM, EDT Akvo FLOW — Can GSNs accelerate innovation through partnerships? Click to register: WEBINAR REGISTRATION Join our GSN/Akvo FLOW Webinar leaders: Mike Dover, GSN Senior Fellow Mark...
Apr 17, 2016 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity
The benefits of global Internet connectivity are increasing exponentially, even as the digital divide widens in some areas of the world. While the world’s population has surpassed 7 billion, there are only 3.2 billion, less than half the global population, that...
Mar 24, 2016 | Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
World Economic Forum recently announced the new class of the Forum of Young Global Leaders. Each year the World Economic Forum elects a class of innovative, enterprising and socially minded men and women under the age of 40 to join the Forum of Young Global Leaders....
Mar 15, 2016 | Employment & Prosperity
When David Hertz left his home in Brazil as a teeneager he found a passion: food. He brought the passion home to the favelas—the urban slums—in his home country where he started Gastromotiva, a “sociogastrnomic organization,” and a GSN, that teaches...
