Amid global crises of every shape, one overlooked commodity is in short supply. It’s not food or water, gold or oil. It’s trust. With it, we can trade with strangers across borders. We ca...
When world leaders gather for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow next month, expectations will be high for a definitive roadmap to reduce global carbon emissions.
For geopolitics, 2020 has been a year of paradoxes. The rapid spread of the virus exposed just how interconnected and globalized the world is, as countries grappled with the common experi...
A new World Economic Forum-Ipsos survey finds that most adults are uniquely optimistic about accessing technology, digital tools and training in the next 12 months. This is amid general p...
“If I have to buy my drugs this month, I won’t have money to eat.”
Digital technologies and big data tools are changing every aspect of how companies operate, across myriad industries. Healthcare is no exception. We are on the verge of a digital revoluti...
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...
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde reported in October 2017 that “the long-awaited economic recovery is taking root [with] the broadest-based acceleration since the start of the deca...
When you woke up this morning, you may have spent about an hour getting ready for the day. You brushed your teeth, showered, and got dressed. Feeling hungry, perhaps you made some breakfa...
A human embryo’s DNA is “edited” to take out a disease. Surgeons practice complicated procedures on models created by 3-D printers. A pre-programmed drone collects blood samples from resi...
On average, a US adult spends four hours a day on their phone, leaving a digital trail that enables Amazon to predict what they will buy, Facebook to know their mental state, and Artifici...
We often underestimate the scale and speed of change that occurred in the 20th century. Wave upon wave of scientific discovery and technological advance has transformed many aspects of ou...
We have now heard the story to the point of exhaustion – the human race is under threat and the robots will take all our jobs as they learn to mimic human behaviour; that artificial intel...
It is not an easy time to be an internationalist, to seek global solutions to global problems amid what feels like one of history’s periodic inclinations toward divisiveness.
It has long been recognized that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is less than adequate as a measure of the economic health and welfare of our societies. Many prominent experts have argued th...
