Global Solution Networks Blog
Recent articles and research reportsGlobal Atlas of environmental conflicts launched in Brussels
The Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade (EJOLT) project launched its Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, a visually attractive and interactive online mapping platform detailing around 1000 environmental conflicts (and growing). It allows...
Governing the Internet: A New Era Begins
Download Original News Release March 24, 2014 The US Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent to transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multi-stakeholder community. A new report...
New Research: Internet Governance Forum
The mandate of the IGF is to provide an open, inclusive environment for policy discussions and debate. It does not seek to solve conflicts but provides the data and tools for others to deploy. Vint Cerf, who has frequently been described as one of the "fathers of the...
New Case Study
Global Footprint Network
Humanity used the resources and services of 1.51 planet Earths in 2007, up 2.5 times since 1961. This situation, known as “overshoot,” tells us that we are using up our planet faster than it can regenerate its resources. Global Footprint Network is addressing this...
New Case Study
OPENPediatrics
OPENPediatrics' web-based platform for teaching, exchanging ideas, and sharing best practices in pediatric care is used in 80 countries on six continents. The network has not only broken down the borders between specialty hospitals and remote caregivers, and between...
New Research Paper: J-PAL
The Abdul Lateef Jameel Poverty Action Lab The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global knowledge network consisting of researchers whose mission is to fight poverty with an evidence-based policy analysis process that utilizes randomized evaluations...
A Bretton Woods for the 21st Century
If you are the leader of a large organization (or only of yourself) who cares about improving the world, here’s a question you should consider: How will you participate in the global solution networks that are increasingly managing to address the world’s problems? A...
Commission to pursue role as honest broker in future global negotiations on Internet Governance
In the wake of large-scale Internet surveillance and reduced trust in the internet, the European Commission today proposes a key reform to the way the Internet is managed and run. The proposal calls for more transparent, accountable and inclusive governance....
Why Digital Health Will Have Huge Impact
Digital Health has big buzz this year. For example, it was a hot topic at both the Consumer Electronics Show (“CES”) and the more-serious JP Morgan Healthcare Conference. (“Digital Health” refers to products and businesses that apply modern digital technologies — the...
How to innovate: making technology work for development
How do you get aid workers to think about new ways of doing things and ensure technologies or tools introduced work in the local context and lead to sustainable change? As impact and scale become increasingly important, Laura Walker Hudson uncovers the barriers to...
Getting Digital Service Delivery Right
Over a cup of tea, on a January afternoon of freezing rain, Emily, who works on Digital for the US Government, and I met to exchange perspectives on what it takes for governments to get digital right. Although our contexts are vastly different, we agreed that there...
Infographic: C40 Cities Releases Landmark Research Revealing Expansion & Acceleration of Climate Actions in Megacities
At the C40 Mayors Summit in Johannesburg today, C40 Cities released Climate Action in Megacities 2.0, a landmark research report that demonstrates a clear trend of megacities expanding and accelerating their climate actions. Climate actions – like implementing...
Infographic: C40 Cities Releases Landmark Research Revealing Expansion & Acceleration of Climate Actions in Megacities
At the C40 Mayors Summit in Johannesburg today, C40 Cities released Climate Action in Megacities 2.0, a landmark research report that demonstrates a clear trend of megacities expanding and accelerating their climate actions. Climate actions – like implementing...
Could Google Maps Help End Poverty?
Last year in the Indian city of Chennai, more than half a million people suddenly appeared from out of nowhere. These men, women and children weren’t rural migrants who had just moved to the city. Neither were they incomers from somewhere else in the world. They were...
Online networks creating a revolution in global solutions
Nation-states are failing to solve our most pressing global challenges. Will an emerging group of digital-friendly multi-sector networks succeed in their place? If we reduce carbon emissions by a whopping 80 per cent by the year 2050 it will take a century for planet...
Want to expose corruption? Empower the people? There’s an app for that
There's a lot of talk about bringing the bottom billion out of poverty and rightly so; this should be the aim of most development initiatives. But sometimes we have to think outside the box when devising programs to achieve this goal. By strengthening the capacity of...
Increased Cyber Security Can Save Global Economy Trillions
Failing to improve cyber security could cost the world economy and lead to more frequent cyberattacks, according to a new report released today by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with McKinsey & Company. New World Economic Forum...
Top 10 risks for the decade ahead
What are the top 10 risks that the world will face in the decade to come, and what can be done about them? The Global Risks 2014 report calls attention to risks that could ripple through entire systems. It aims to improve collaboration among business, governments and...