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03 April 2018
The business innovation author and speaker on 'onlyness' and how to unlock our individual and collective capacities. As a former executive at Apple and Autodesk, and consultant…
29 March 2018
In a world that is dominated by money, as the only universal means of exchange, how would our democracies, economies and societies look like if values were a central part of our…
29 March 2018
I’ve just been reading the UK Labour Party’s Green Paper on International Development (out this week). ‘Green Papers’ are not about the colour (this one is actually red), but ‘…
28 March 2018
Why agency and privacy matter for refugee communities. Ahmed and the Internet Ahmed fled Daraa in Syria nearly two years ago. He registered as a refugee in Jordan, but the same…
28 March 2018
The Middle East is heating up again, in part due to President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The Trump administration has also incited upset with its…
27 March 2018
TNI today presents its Atlas of Utopias (click here to see the website), part of the Transformative Cities initiative, sharing 32 stories of radical transformation…
27 March 2018
Europe and Iran: The Nuclear Deal and Beyond by Cornelius Adebahr. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2017. 186 pp, £105 hardcover 9781138201040 Reviewed by Anoush Ehteshami   The…
26 March 2018
Sometime this summer, residents of Cape Town, South Africa, are expecting ‘Day Zero’ – the day when almost all the taps in the city will run dry. On that day, its 4 million…
26 March 2018
Plastics in the world’s oceans are set to treble in the next ten years, according to a new UK government report. They are also contributing to a rubbish…
22 March 2018
We are often told that there is no place for politics in objective research. The scientific tradition has built rigorous methodologies to get rid of bias, and presents itself as…