How young people are creating an impact at Davos
Every January, the small Swiss town of Davos moves into the spotlight, as more than 2,500 leaders from business, government, international organisations, civil society, academia, media an...
Every January, the small Swiss town of Davos moves into the spotlight, as more than 2,500 leaders from business, government, international organisations, civil society, academia, media an...
Zaha Hadid had to leave Iraq to become one of the great architects of the globalized age. But that’s not the only path for aspiring designers. “I was talking to an accelerator recently,” ...
Much as the 800-year-old Magna Carta provided the framework for modern-day governance through the rule of law, the nine-year-old Bitcoin whitepaper provided the framework for digital gove...
The indigenous Maōri people of Aotearoa had a warring culture. Numerous tribes with diverse traditions fiercely fought one another as they competed for resources and struggled to survive.
If you have spent a good amount of time – say more than five years – working as a professional, the chances are you will have been caught up in the cycle of promotions and salary incremen...
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is completely shifting the way we live, work, and play.
India and China together created approximately 13.5 million jobs and contributed 1.8 percentage points to the overall world GDP last year.
Today, it is difficult to imagine a technology that is as enthralling and terrifying as machine learning. While media coverage and research papers consistently tout the potential of machi...
We are living in an age of hyper-personalization – from our personal news feed to personalized content from our favourite brands, to the selfie, to our curated online profile. We know wha...
I was visiting business banks – the likes of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Barclays – in The City of London one particular week in 2008. While bankers kept spirits as high as spending...
If we imagine the future job market as an ecosystem, it will be populated by both workers and robots.
As companies, researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs work to make industries and systems carbon-neutral, one tiny nation in the Eastern Himalayas has them all beat: Bhutan is world's f...
According to forecasts from earlier this year by the World Bank, the global economy is expected to average a Real GDP growth rate of 2.8% between 2017-2019.
Why have humans created machines? Technology is born from the human desire to save time in order to invest it in fantasy. Technology generates time and space for the activities that make ...
The 1982 UN Law of the Sea was the largest ever annexation of our planet and our ocean. In one stroke, one-third of our planet was formally designated as 'exclusive economic zones', givin...