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Why Africa must become a center of knowledge again
How can Africa, the home to some of the largest bodies of water in the world, be said to have a water crisis? It doesn't, says Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò -- it has a knowledge crisis. According to Taiwo, a lack of knowledge on important topics like water and food is what stands between Africa's Read More...
Disruption’s double standard: tech firms get rich but street vendors get fined
From their spot on the sidewalk outside San Francisco’s Dolores Park, Miguel Muniz and Juan Anguiano could see children running around the playground and hundreds of hipsters lounging on a grassy hillside amid games of beer pong and men hawking loose joints in mason Read More...
Chasing Germany: Here’s how your country ranks in terms of quality of life
For the sixth year in a row, Germany gained the top spot in the Quality of Nationality Index (QNI), a ranking of nationalities on the levels of freedom and quality of life citizens enjoy. More than a simple nation brand perception index, the QNI claims to be the world’s only objective measure of Read More...
Don’t fear the end of capitalism. Be excited to build what comes next
Capitalism and socialism may operate on different terms, but they both rely on exponential GDP growth and ever-increasing levels of production and consumption. In other words, in order for the systems to succeed, they must continue to plunder the earth for resources. The world can no longer handle Read More...
Pope Francis arrives in Colombia to promote peace
Pope Francis is visiting Colombia on a five-day tour that many hope will help consolidate the country. The Catholic Church has played a significant role in this country that has suffered decades of Read More...
Silicon Valley vowed to protect Dreamers
Executives across Silicon Valley have strongly condemned Donald Trump’s termination of a program that protected undocumented immigrants from deportation – but very few tech companies have said how they plan to support their own foreign-born Read More...
The technology that underpins Bitcoin could soon help undocumented refugees
Without an official ID, it's nearly impossible to advance in society. Refugees know this better than anyone else. Getting an official ID is a difficult, lengthy process, but through use of a cryptographic ledger called blockchain, millions of refugees may soon be able to get a secure digital form Read More...
What the world can learn from Germany’s treatment of former coal workers
When a country transitions from coal to renewable energies, cities that have traditionally relied on fossil fuels for their local economy can suffer. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In the industrial coal belt of Germany, union representatives and local politicians worked out a plan to Read More...
International mediation champion Switzerland stands ready for Korea crisis
Switzerland stands ready to step in and act as a mediator to resolve the North Korea crisis, Swiss president Doris Leuthard told reporters in the capital Berne today. “I think it really is time for dialogue,” Leuthard Read More...
‘Refugees are not a burden but a source of knowledge and economic development’
Politicians keep saying that refugees are the problem. They (want to) steal jobs from locals and they pose an economic burden on the host nation. Scholars keep showing the opposite, as in this new book. The reality is that countries around the world are missing out on the opportunity to welcome Read More...