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    In Latin America one can say that the distance between government elites and the people has been historically large. The term “citizenship” is still a work in process, but the organization of civil society has become stronger over the past decade. Whether this is an outcome of globalization […]

Even in midst of political and social upheaval, the Middle East and Gulf states still continue to attract thousands of migrant workers from South Asia, including workers from Nepal. Every year thousands of young people seeking better opportunities arrive in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and Kuwait. Some are even naive and […]

Understanding megatrends – their characteristics and impacts – is not easy and is made even more difficult by the fact that we lack a common understanding of what exactly they  are. The trend analyst and futurist Matthias Horx provides a helpfully short definition (taken from this website): A megatrend has […]

Transnational Pipeline should become a source of stability and security in the Asian region by avoiding the “resource curse”.

This video has been submitted by kachwanya. Kenya recently launched Africa’s first mobile apps lab known as  m-lab. The facility based in Nairobi Kenya will serve as incubation center for new business in the mobile space within East Africa countries. Among the initiatives which will be taken by the lab […]

You see it every day: people with a cell phone to their ear, talking everywhere, on streets, cafés, elevators, taxis, airplanes, in a loud voice, making you part of their conversations, blurring the line between private and public matters. Cell phones are here to stay and, as many people view […]