Jan 4, 2017 | Blockchain Governance, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Poverty Alleviation
In our 2013 study of the challenges of financial inclusion Financial Inclusion: Barter to Bitcoins, Bricks and Mortar to Mobile—Developing 21st Century Financial Services Solutions for the Unbanked Poor we looked at the limites imposed by marginal involvement in the...
Dec 19, 2016 | Blockchain Governance, Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Governance Networks, Health & Human Security, Other / Multiple / General
2017 could be the year of blockchain stewardship. In the CoinDesk 2016 in Review special feature, Don Tapscott, Founder of Global Solution Networks, and co-Author Alex Tapscott, discussed some of the hot topics from their recently published book “Blockchain...
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...
Oct 4, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity
Digital India achieved a rare thing last week: a show of collective support from Silicon Valley leaders including the executives of Cisco, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Google, Apple, and Facebook, all of whom gathered for a dinner meeting in San Jose to honor the visit of...
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...
