Jun 4, 2015 | Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Human Rights, Operational and Delivery Networks
Verité, an operational and delivery network, has studied the issues of human trafficking and labor exploitation in order to combat abuses across sectors and industries. A company that prides itself on its social awareness and concern for both its employees and the...
May 26, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Knowledge Networks
As world leaders prepare for a development finance summit in Addis Ababa in July, and anticipate new development goals for later this year, a new report has been released by One.org calling for increased commitment to aid from the richest nations, and spending by the...
May 17, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Operational and Delivery Networks
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize in 2009 in part for her observation that communities can solve the “crisis of the commons,” the problems caused by some people taking a “free ride” on the benefits of common resources at the expense of the...
May 3, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security
The crowdsourced information field of “crisis mapping” makes a critical difference in the ability of response teams to reach and help victims of disaster. OpenStreetMap and their Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) were instrumental in Haiti after the...
Apr 22, 2015 | Economic Stability & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
The wars of the Middle East have created a wave of refugees and migrants in numbers that have not been seen since the end of WWII. The mass migration has created a tightrope for European leaders. Cutbacks in Italian rescue operations were made as a deterrent to the...