Nov 6, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
The Legatum Insitute, a London-based think tank, does an annual ranking of countries using eight indices. Their 2015 Prosperity Index report has just come out. See the complete Legatum Prosperity Ranking data here. Among the headline findings from this...
Nov 4, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Wellbeing, Operational and Delivery Networks, Platforms, Poverty Alleviation
CloudFactory, the technology outsourcing company based in Kathmandu, connects workers in developing countries with client companies worldwide. The employees benefit from skills training and job creation, and the clients get quick and cost-effective data entry and...
Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security, Human Rights, Peace & Conflict
Using data from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), a Finnish data visualization site, Lucify, created a stunning interactive graphic that shows the magnitude of the refugee crisis. “We aimed to convey the magnitude of the crisis in a way that is intuitive, memorable and...
Oct 29, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
1/3 of the global population is on the wrong side of the digital divide, without the ability to go online regularly. The reasons for this are simple and the solutions are complex: devices are expensive, mobile networks are few and far between, and power sources are...
Oct 9, 2015 | Cities, Employment & Prosperity
It May Surprise You… A new study from the Pew Research Center looks at the flow of migrants into the US in the last hundred years. This cool interactive tool shows where they came from and where in the US they settled. The map is part of a new study on past and...
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...
