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 31, 2015 | Governance Networks, News, Other / Multiple / General, Policy Networks
GSN Chairman Don Tapscott is on the cover of the latest Canadian Government Executive magazine for an interview with Editor-in-Chief Toby Fyfe in which he discusses the power of the GSN model as a new vector for global problem solving.
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 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,...