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Blockchain Stewardship May Be a GSN Internet Revolution

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...

Great Barrier Reef Victim of Big Coal?

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...

Report Identifies Africa’s Low Internet Use

Nov 18, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security

By Eldon Opiyo [NAIROBI] Despite recent improvements in infrastructure and affordability, internet adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa is not growing rapidly, a report from the Internet Society says. The report says that the continent’s internet adoption is not growing...

Dangerous City Air—Smog Chokes Delhi

Nov 9, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Employment & Prosperity

For days the smog levels in Delhi have been choking residents and threatening health with dangerous particles and an air quality index that has reached 999 (anything above 500 is considered “hazardous,” and, by comparison, the current levels in London are...

Will Brexit Change Climate Policy?

Jun 25, 2016 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship

We may not always have Paris, as the surprising British “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union may have profound implications for climate policy. Several GSNs have expressed concern that the Vote Leave movement leaves many issues open on the UK role in...

Hyperloop One Global Challenge: It’s a Train! It’s a Plane! (Is it a GSN?)

Jun 6, 2016 | Blog, Cities

The Hyperloop One Global Challenge is inviting entries in a competition to win the opportunity to work with Hyperloop on transforming passenger and cargo transportation. While commercial drone operators are working out the regulatory problems of operating package...