Jan 4, 2017 | Blockchain Governance, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation
In our 2013 study of the challenges of financial inclusion Financial Inclusion: Barter to Bitcoins, Bricks and Mortar to Mobile—Developing 21st Century Financial Services Solutions for the Unbanked Poor we looked at the limites imposed by marginal involvement in the...
Dec 19, 2016 | Blockchain Governance, Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Governance Networks, Health & Human Security, Other / Multiple / General
2017 could be the year of blockchain stewardship. In the CoinDesk 2016 in Review special feature, Don Tapscott, Founder of Global Solution Networks, and co-Author Alex Tapscott, discussed some of the hot topics from their recently published book “Blockchain...
Dec 15, 2016 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Coral reefs are remarkable, bright colored, teeming with biodiversity and supporting a complex ecosystem. But they can live only in narrow ranges of temperature, making them particularly vulnerable to the variations in ocean temperatures that are being caused by...
Dec 7, 2016 | At Work, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity
GSNs at Work: Greenpeace and the seal hunters of Nunavut. Forty years ago Greenpeace was a fledgling organization protesting atomic testing in the Alaskan Arctic, Russian whaling in the Pacific, and the Canadian seal hunt. In the aftermath of those pioneering...
Dec 2, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Health & Human Security, Knowledge Networks
The Global Working Group to End School-Related Gender-Based Violence is a coalition of 40 agencies including governments, NGOs, civil society activists and researchers, a GSN, that advocates for policy changes, shares tools and knowledge, and promotes generation of...