Nov 5, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Environment & Sustainability
100 Resilient Cities (100RC), and the 100 Resilient Cities Challenge are pioneering programs created by the Rockefeller Foundation with the goal of helping cities around the world develop resilience to the physical, social, and economic challenges that are a growing...
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...
Sep 20, 2015 | Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Human Rights, Peace & Conflict, Poverty Alleviation
Richard Curtis, the film-maker known for hits like Love Actually and Bridget Jones’s Diary, as well as for his work with Comic Relief, is the founder of Project Everyone, a collaboration with the UN to give prominence to the Sustainable Development Goals. The...
Sep 8, 2015 | Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security, Peace & Conflict
Last week, the shocking image of a young boy drowned with 12 others while trying to escape the Syrian conflict brought attention to the European refugee crisis in brutal fashion. This incident follows a series of horrifying incidents in Europe. Reports of refugees...