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Our news section is for important commentary and news that doesn’t fit under one of our Global Issues. Sometimes we use this space to comment on major current events, and sometimes we use it to cover conferences or share interviews we’ve snapped up. We also share news from our project team here.

 

  • Future Challenges seeks bloggers in Brazil!

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    Future Challenges and the ZBW Leibniz Information Centre for Economics seek bloggers for the Global Economic Symposium (GES) 2012 in Rio de Janeiro! Click here for a preview of the conference (PDF).   Whom are we looking for? We’re looking for bloggers who are living in Brazil – ideally in […]

  • FutureChallenges at re:publica (#RP12)

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    Over the past few days the re:publica conference has once more opened its doors for debate on Web-related politics. This year even saw a boost in attendance with 4,000 participants (as opposed to last year’s 3,000) coming to listen to exciting speakers in a creative productive environment, and working together […]

  • FutureChallenges wins German Award for Online Communication

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    This year marks the second time that the German Award for Online Communication has been presented in Berlin. We are proud and deeply honored that the distinguished jury has given FutureChallenges.org the award in the “Internal Communication” category, putting us ahead of leading German corporations like Bayer, Daimler and Deutsche […]

  • Future Day: 2 July in Berlin

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    On Monday 2 July at the Kalkscheune in Berlin our team will be gathering an international group of scholars, journalists, activists and bloggers for the first in a series of international Future Days. Organized with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the series of Future Days will provide a platform for […]