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.
Conferences and barcamps can be really great or they can be a dismal failure. The measure of success depends on the structure of participants, organization, topics and one element that is hard to describe even though it’s one you can actually feel – the ‘atmosphere’. Organization Despite the fact that […]
“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with”, Marshall McLuhan said on The Best of Ideas on CBC Radio in 1967. As with many of McLuhan’s other quotes, this one […]
“How the Internet Changes Our Reality” proclaims a vertical banner in front of the building of the Church of the Resurrection transformed into a ultra-modern Umweltforum venue hosting the Barcamp held by Future Challenges, the Club of Rome and the Berlin Institute for Internet and Society. Ironically speaking, one might say […]
The Bertelsmann Foundation North America now has its own online presence. Starting 1 December 2011, the activities of the Washington, DC branch of the Bertelsmann Stiftung can be followed at www.bfna.org. The new website features information about the Foundation, first and foremost its trans-Atlantic and global projects, its board and […]
Guest post written by my colleague Joachim Fritz-Vannahme Mail: Joachim.Vannahme@bertelsmann-stiftung.de At present, we see a hot debate about the future of the eurozone with an abundance of different scenarios – not least that of its breakup. When in March 2011, we issued our report “Making the European Union work. Issues […]
