Data security can bridge equity gaps. Here's how
The acceleration to a digital economy over the last year has shone a light on the question: how do we ensure the digitization of services is equitable, so our most vulnerable communities ...
The acceleration to a digital economy over the last year has shone a light on the question: how do we ensure the digitization of services is equitable, so our most vulnerable communities ...
The global health system is in a state of unprecedented crisis under the pernicious influence of COVID-19. Both narrow-minded hegemony in international politics and compartmentalized myop...
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens already fragile social and economic systems and could potentially impact the lives of up to 2 billion people. Based on estimates by the World Bank, it woul...
Around the world, existing and sometimes new violent extremist groups are using the COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate their rhetoric against governments, minorities and international organi...
If the first casualty in war is truth, as the saying goes, the second may very well be something the entire world values highly right now: quality healthcare.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is expanding at an exponential rate. Global internet traffic has grown from 100 gigabytes a day in 1992 to more than 45,000 a second in 2017 – trans...
The world’s millennials see catastrophic war on the horizon, including the real likelihood of a nuclear strike.
On December 19, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly voted to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, with 152 votes in favor, five votes against, and 12 ab...
This week government, business and civil society leaders from around the world will make their annual trek to the small Alpine town of Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum’s An...
In Timbuktu, Mali this month I met with families without food whose crops have failed and whose children have been killed by improvised explosive devices (IED). I couldn’t help but be mov...
Humanity is faced with a grave new reality – the rise of autonomous weapons. It may sound like a Hollywood script, but the risk is real: humans so far removed from wartime choices that li...
The huge costs of depriving women and girls of rights and opportunities are borne not only by women and girls themselves, but also by their families, communities, and the entire economy. ...
Billions of people cannot meet their basic needs for food, shelter, and health. Resource scarcity and a lack of access to basic services disproportionately affect the poor and marginalize...
Syria enters its seventh year of fighting in 2018. Hunger and disease will affect millions of people in Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Around the world people will flee conflict only to ...
From village wells to artificial intelligence, “eroding the social fabric” and creating unwanted social change have always been among the criticisms levelled against various forms of tech...