FutureChallenges.org at the Social Media Week in Hamburg
Social Media Week is a global platform that explores the impact of social media and its role in driving economic, political and societal change. A global event, the presentations and [...]
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Rebecca MacKinnon: Supporting the Rights of World´s Internet Users
Isabel Gahren of Internet & Gesellschaft Co:llaboratory sent me an invitation to an awesome event with Rebecca MacKinnon which I like to publish here because it is open for all [...]
Wanted: FutureChallengers
Global trends might have worldwide repercussions yet the impact they make varies considerably from region to region. So bringing together individual perspectives on a single platform and showing how they [...]
Brussels Think Tank Forum: Photos
Regional Editor Mac-Jordan interviewed by one.org
We’re proud to say that regional editor for Africa Mac-Jordan Degadjor is turning heads. When it comes to experts on Africa’s push into the age of the Internet and [...]
Thinking Europe’s 1st World Problems
European think tanks held their big annual shindig this week at the Brussels Think Tank Dialogue, including not only those of the EU bubble, but also major national organizations such [...]
EU Leaders’ Jobs Promise: The more they talk, the less they do
Was it the fact that both the IMF and the World Bank warned that the eurozone’s economic mismanagement could trigger another global recession? Or that the world’s economic and political [...]
Merkel vs. Schulz: Is the Lady for Turning?
Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament, attempts to speak at the Brussels Think Tank Forum. The microphone fails, he is unfazed. “This must be Angela Merkel,” he jokes, she [...]
Why the Arctic Matters to Future Challenges
Sitting on a Norwegian airlines plane from Oslo, Norway to Tromsø, I feel compelled to take a few minutes to explain why I believe the Arctic is relevant to futurechallenges.org. [...]
Quo vadis, Euro?
This is a guest post by Thiess Petersen, who also works with the future challenges team in Gütersloh. Thiess’s research is primarily concerned with questions of globalization and the current [...]
