Nov 21, 2016 | Employment & Prosperity, Governance Networks
The recent demonitization of the most-used denominations of Indian currency may have created an unanticipated trend toward financial inclusion. The twin problems of rampant counterfeiting and of a cash-based exchange system that skirts taxes and reduces participation...
Nov 2, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Policy Networks
Hidden in the chaos of the US presidential vote are climate change issues, and public utility legislation, that have potentially long-reaching implications. National Geographic has released several new documentary pieces that demonstrate that they have held their...
Aug 15, 2016 | Cities, Governance Networks
Ever since HAL refused to open the pod bay doors for Dave we’ve been worried about the bad things that smart computers might do to their human creators. HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. Dave Bowman: What’s the problem?...
Jun 21, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Health & Human Security
The 2011 revolution that began in Tunisia reverberates with decades of abuses and repression that women had suffered under the 30 year presidency of Habib Bourguiba and that continued and were amplified under the presidency of Ben Ali before he was overthrown in the...
Feb 15, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Knowledge Networks
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a new report, “The Trends Shaping Education,” that says that cities can learn from one another, share best practice and develop problem solutions in ways that are impossible at the national...
Jan 29, 2016 | Cities, Knowledge Networks
Transportation choices in the urban population centers is underlining the changing times. Getting a drivers’ license used to be a right of passage for every teenager. The treasured document was a ticket to autonomy and freedom, speed and excitement that every...
