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 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...
Mar 6, 2015 | Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Operational and Delivery Networks
“If we were building a financial system from scratch today, we’d do it on a digital platform,” Bill Gates once said in an address on behalf of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. A new report sponsored by the GSMA, or Groupe Speciale Mobile Association,...
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...
Feb 18, 2015 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Operational and Delivery Networks
The most recent Global Polio Eradication Initiative update from Nigeria shows that the country is near polio-free as the wild polio virus has been unseen for 7 months while a type-2 outbreak derived from vaccinations continues to affect the...
Feb 17, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Operational and Delivery Networks, Poverty Alleviation
In the face of mounting global unemployment in the ranks of young people, apprenticeships as an alternative to college is emerging in several industries. Similar proposed programs in the US have been met with some skepticism, but may be gaining...