Over the past 70 years, globalization has dramatically changed our systems, organizations and values. Individual exposure to international ideas, culture and attitudes through tourism alo...
As we watch the youth take to the streets over climate change, and read daily news reports on sea-level rise, glacier melt rates and the alarming amount of carbon in the atmosphere, many ...
“The stability of nature can no longer be taken for granted,” David Attenborough said recently. If anyone still thought they could ignore the climate crisis, recent reports and drastic ch...
Recently, I had the privilege of spending a day in Patna, Bihar. Beautiful as it is, Bihar is one of India’s poorest states, with a record 70% of its population under the poverty line. Mo...
At a time when the world is grappling with meeting the Paris Climate Agreement and trying to prevent the sixth mass extinction on Earth, an international team of scientists has published ...
“If water is life, sanitation is dignity”, said the former South African Minister for Water Affairs and Forestry, Ronnie Kasrils. But an estimated 4.5 billion people - more than half the ...
Entrepreneurship still faces some endemic challenges: financing, scale, ecosystems. Yet the playing field is being fundamentally altered by the speed of technological advancement, new mar...
As the guiding principles of this year’s World Economic Forum suggest, addressing the biggest global challenges requires the collaborative efforts of business, government and civil societ...
We’re wiping out the rest of life on Earth a thousand times faster than the natural extinction rate, and we’re filling that biodiversity void with food production and other human activiti...
Technologies are disrupting markets all over the world. The way people use transportation, leisure and entertainment have changed with Uber, Airbnb and Netflix, and more is to come with t...
Africa has not been spared from the impact of globalization as the world’s economies and societies have become more and more integrated. There has however, been more movement of ideas, te...
AI is rapidly becoming part of the fabric of our daily lives as it moves out of academia and research labs and into the real world.
What do Silicon Valley, Helsinki, Dubai, Shenzhen, Bengaluru and Singapore have in common? They each represent cities or regions with successful innovation ecosystems. They act as magnets...
As human beings, in a complex world of divisions, boundaries and borders, it isn’t surprising that we try to make sense of things by putting everyone and everything into groups, labels or...
Over 12 years of working with blind people, teaching them photography, it became clear to me that many sighted people suffer from “mental blindness”, created by their prejudices and stere...
