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...
Apr 8, 2015 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
Local outbreaks of food-borne disease can quickly become an international emergency. Robust safety systems are needed to drive action to safeguard against contamination through the production system from farm to table. As part of the World Health Day activities, the...
Apr 8, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
Financial services providers serving the bottom-of-the-pyramid are using data analytics to pioneer new products. Traditional people- and paper-based paradigms are awkward and expensive. New data from social networks and mobile use promise better results at lower...
Mar 27, 2015 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security, Platforms
Networks are a growing topic of discussion for what I’ll characterize as Risk 2.0 global challenges. Climate change is such a challenge, and has been a focus of early work by Global Solution Networks (see, for example, Addressing the Climate Crisis with Networks of...
Mar 16, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
In adventures he chronicles on his Facebook page, Existe Água em SP (“There is Water in SP”), the river hunter Adriano Sampaio is a tireless urban expeditionist, walking the city in search of lost rivers and springs, and posting a steady stream of videos to his page....
Mar 2, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Operational and Delivery Networks
Curtin University has just earned the first 5 Green Star Communities Rating from the Green Building Council for a master plan developed for a design for the Perth campus that focusses on sustainability, a critical step, says CannonDesign architect Peter Ellis, in...