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Review: Designing Regenerative Cultures
Daniel Christian Wahl 6 Star Handbook for Saving Civilization & Earth This book makes the jump from 5 stars (generally I don’t bother to review a book if it is not a four or five star read) to 6 stars — my top ten percent — because of the combination of Questions Asked, glorious color …
Answers for Joachim Hagopian on Electoral Reform
Obviously the goal is to get the most viable presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to buy into your electoral reform bill as the leaders who could then sell it to the voting public. What if they either remain unreceptive or tell you, “yeah it looks good on paper, but that kind of radical …
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Jean Lievens: Smart Cities Are Not Smart If They Just Connect to the Internet
Connecting everyone to the internet won’t solve the world’s development problems According to a new report from the World Bank, more than 40% of the global population now has internet access. On average, eight in ten people in the developing world own a mobile phone. Even in the poorest 20% of households this number is …
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Rick Robinson: Why Smart Cities Are Not Smart
Why Smart Cities still aren’t working for us after 20 years. And how we can fix them. (I was recently asked to give evidence to the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development during the development of their report on Smart Cities and Infrastructure. This article is based on my presentation, which you …
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Leila Janah: Davos – 5 Tech and Impact Trends
Davos: It’s Not Enough to do Less Bad (5 Tech and Impact Trends) Here are five key tech and social impact trends from this year’s Forum: It’s not enough to do less bad. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is the way leaders will talk about tech. Impact bonds and pay-for-outcomes models will dominate global social sector …
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Berto Jongman: Citi Global Risk Paradigm Change
Good but incomplete. GLOBAL POLITICAL RISK The New Convergence Between Geopolitical and Vox Populi Risks, and Why It Matters Graphic and comment below the fold.
