Oct 4, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity
Digital India achieved a rare thing last week: a show of collective support from Silicon Valley leaders including the executives of Cisco, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Google, Apple, and Facebook, all of whom gathered for a dinner meeting in San Jose to honor the visit of...
Sep 29, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Earlier this month officials and representatives from cities around the world met in Los Angeles at the US-China Climate Leaders Summit and announced an ambitious assortment of carbon emissions targets, clean energy partnership proposals and new initiative for...
Sep 24, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Cheating the Code on The Internet of Things… The Internet of Things will streamline our world, save us time, improve our health, slow climate change. It makes our cars smart, our media social and our electronics networked. Life is super-connected in the...
Sep 22, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
This week the UN Sustainable Development Summit will convene at UN headquarters in New York. World leaders from 193 nations will be asked to commit to 17 Global Goals in three broad categories—end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and tackle climate...
Sep 18, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
ACCCRN, or the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network, connects people to build inclusive Urban Climate Change Resilience (UCCR). They are focused on building capacity, connecting practitioners, and providing a platform for sharing knowledge and advancing...
Sep 18, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
In a few days the international community will meet to endorse the Sustainable Development Goals as well as 2030 targets to eradicate poverty, tackle inequalities, and protect the planet. Realizing the ambition of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will...