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In what only recently would have seemed like science fiction, Colorado has positioned itself to become a leader in the space resources sector. But what are the challenges and…
Successful social movements combine resistance to injustice with the affirmation of alternatives.
After 50 years of struggle, 10 years of physical occupation and over 11,000…
Hana Okasha, Evelyn Baskaradas and Suay M. Ozkula explore big data, AI and the role of ethics in the context of hiring practice and gender profiling.
In recent years, big data…
Although economists are well positioned to imagine new institutional arrangements, their habit of thinking at the margin and sticking close to the evidence at hand encourages an…
Daniel Kirby, Michael Pinney and Paul Reilly explore the prospects for VeganCoin, the ‘cruelty-free’ cryptocurrency that promises to break the blockchain mould.
Blockchain is…
Victoria Baskett, Rebecca Heminway and Paul Reilly explore whether open access publishing might democratise the publication and dissemination of academic research.
By the end of…
Rebecca Mardon argues that consumers need to become more sensitised to the restrictions on digital ownership.
Microsoft has announced that it will close the books category of its…
Carol Guimaraes, project manager at Sustainable Cities Institute in São Paulo, explores how local advocacy can drive cities’ progressive agendas while being contested by…
The G7, Anti-Globalism and the Governance of Globalization edited by Chiara Oldani and Jan Wouters. London and New York: Routledge 2018. 182 pp., £115 hardcover 9781138583627
The…
Tom Kirk explores how World Vision analyses power and politics in a crisis to design humanatarian responses.
In 2014, World Vision’s Johan Eldebo and colleagues set about…
Chay Brooks and Cristian Gherhes introduce the key themes at the upcoming Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Bahrain, 15th-18th April.
In April 2019, the University of Sheffield…
How cities can help address climate change induced food security.
Climate change is underway, and human activities such as urbanisation, industrialisation and food production are…
On Friday 8 March, Faith Centre director James Walters delivered a lecture for the LSE International Development department’s Cutting Edge Issues in Development series. …
With Eritrea, a strange partner has taken over the chair of the “Khartoum Process”, the forum for EU-African dialogue on migration.
In early March 2019, the Eritrean government…
Nicholas Beuret on why we need to look within countries and households to understand the source of dangerous emissions.
American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently…