Policies – Page 287 – Public Intelligence Blog

Rahim Kanani

Forbes, 5 July 2013

“Many projects around the world provide solutions in local contexts. It is our mission to showcase these achievements, and to bring committed but often isolated innovators, their ideas and creative solutions to the greater community,” explained Stavros Yiannouka, CEO of the World Innovation Summit of Education, which is an initiative of the Qatar Foundation. We talked about the evolution of the Summit, education innovation around the world, challenges to global progress, and why partnership and collaboration are critical to scaling solutions.

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2014/07/082014/07/06

Berto Jongman: Child abuse ‘may well have been’ covered up – Norman Tebbit

06 Family, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security

Child abuse ‘may well have been' covered up – Norman Tebbit

A former cabinet minister has said there “may well have been” a political cover-up of child sex abuse in the 1980s.

Lord Tebbit told the Andrew Marr Show the culture at the time was to protect “the establishment” rather than delving “too far” into such claims.

His comments come after it emerged that the Home Office could not locate 114 potentially relevant files. Current MP Keith Vaz said files had been lost “on an industrial scale”.

The government has rejected calls for an over-arching public inquiry into the various allegations of child abuse from that era.

However, a new review, to be carried out by a senior legal figure from outside Whitehall, will look into a Home Office review last year of any information it received in the 1980s and 1990s about organised child sex abuse.

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2014/07/072014/07/04

Jean Lievens: Sharing Economy Resistant to Depression and Robots — Airbnb CEO Continues to Push the Edge of the Envelope

03 Economy, 11 Society, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Chesky argues that the ability to profit from sharing assets is a business model both resistant to recession and to the coming robot work-apocalypse.

Airbnb CEO spells out the end game for the sharing economy, in 7 quotes

Gregory Ferenstein

VentureBeat, 2 July 2014

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2014/07/062014/07/05

Sepp Hasslberger: No crankshaft, no problem: Toyota’s free piston engine is brilliant

05 Energy

Neat design for an engine that is also a generator of electricity. The idea has been around for some decades, but now Toyota has engineered one…

No crankshaft, no problem: Toyota's free piston engine is brilliant

Jason Commisa

RoadTrack, 30 June 2014

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2014/07/032014/07/01

Mini-Me: T-Mobile Criminal Business As Usual — 100s of Millions of Dollars in Bogus Texting Charges

03 Economy, 09 Justice, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, Government

Huh?

T-Mobile took ‘100s of millions of dollars' from bogus txt charges – Feds

Network CEO slams FTC, FCC allegations as baseless

>By Shaun Nichols

The Register, 1 Jul 2014

T-Mobile US was accused today of slapping bogus text-message charges worth hundreds of millions of dollars on customers' bills.

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2014/07/032014/07/01

Jean Lievens: Airbnb CEO on Sharing Economy – Starting with Education as a Global Traveling Experience

03 Economy, 04 Education, 11 Society, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence

Airbnb does business in 34,000 cities, has a valuation of over 10 billion dollars, and in a very short time has disrupted the world of hospitality and travel. Its co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky envisions the future city as a place where sharing is front and center — where people become micro-entrepreneurs, the local mom and pops will flourish once again, where space isn't wasted, but shared, and more of almost everything is produced, except waste. But the journey from here to there won't be all smooth sailing. What are the ups and downs of the sharing economy, as businesses like Airbnb confront critiques about regulation, economic development, and fairness? What role might businesses play in creating more shareable, more livable cities? How will the sharing economy, with its de-emphasis on ownership, be a tool for addressing urban inequality?

2014/07/032014/07/03

Mini-Me: 50% of US Troops in Chronic Pain on Opioids

07 Health, Military

Huh?

Half of American Combat Soldiers in Chronic Pain Use Opioids

About half of the American soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan return home to the U.S. in chronic pain, according to a new study that also found about one in seven soldiers were using opioid pain relievers.

The study, the first to assess the prevalence of chronic pain and opioid use in the infantry after combat deployment, is being published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

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