Around half of the world's population is on lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-19, a public health emergency that has claimed thousands of lives and sparked fears of the w...
As working from home becomes the new normal, and everyone is scrambling to find virtual solutions such as Zoom, Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams, it’s a great time to pause for a moment...
Dhaka’s streets are eerily empty. When 10 million rickshaw drivers, day labourers, factory workers, maids and others raced to get home before the start of the shutdown - announced by the ...
As of 29 March 2020, there have been more than 680,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 disease in 203 countries around the world.
By 2050, more than half of the world’s population growth will be in Africa.
The 2020s are unfolding in a complex context, and they haven’t even begun in earnest. At the end of the last decade, our world witnessed the Amazon and much of Australia burning, a harden...
None of us can have missed the images of yellow-clad volunteers hosing down blazing flames, people standing amid the blackened rubble of what were once people’s homes, and animals with ba...
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 6 aims to ensure availability of clean water and sanitation for all. The two are deeply interconnected issues: Lack of robust sanitation, ...
India’s urban areas produce 120,000 tonnes of faecal sludge on a daily basis, but an estimated two-thirds of the country’s households with toilets aren’t connected to the sewer system. As...
The announcements from the UN's Climate Action Summit shared one distinct feature - each thematic focus included a private sector CEO that accepted the challenge to act on climate and air...
Human beings are a uniquely amazing species. From the construction of great cathedrals to the modern scientific enterprise, our greatest accomplishments happen when we work together. We c...
Pakistan has been the 8th-most affected country when it comes to climate change. Although the government recognizes that vulnerability, there is a lot of room for forming an effective ada...
With the advent of massive open online courses (MOOCs) almost a decade ago, learning entered its own period of digital disruption. Digital Learning 1.0 (the age of the MOOCs) catalyzed th...
Forced migration is the political hot potato of our time. With new global records of displaced people set every year, foreign aid falling and an expected surge of climate refugees on the ...
Different times call for different kinds of leaders. As the world grapples with huge shifts in the social and political landscape, 70 of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders (Y...
