May 28, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
During the California drought of the 1980s Santa Barbara built a desalinization plant to provide drinking water to the city. The plant, which only ran for six weeks after it was completed in 1992, is being reopened. The plant comes with concerns about the economic and...
Apr 8, 2015 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
Local outbreaks of food-borne disease can quickly become an international emergency. Robust safety systems are needed to drive action to safeguard against contamination through the production system from farm to table. As part of the World Health Day activities, the...
Apr 8, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
Financial services providers serving the bottom-of-the-pyramid are using data analytics to pioneer new products. Traditional people- and paper-based paradigms are awkward and expensive. New data from social networks and mobile use promise better results at lower...
