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Megatrends Are Defining Our Future
Written by Mario Wiedemann
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 […]
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Natural Gas Reserves and Asian Peace
Written by Maria Farooq
Transnational Pipeline should become a source of stability and security in the Asian region by avoiding the “resource curse”.
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m:Lab East Africa: Africa’s first mobile Lab
Written by kachwanya
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 […]
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The Many Good and Bad Uses of Cell Phones in Central America
Written by Jacinta Escudos
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 […]
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Why Middle Class Families Can Kill Assad
Written by Peter Hagen
Syria is beset by an historic problem of weak state institutions, with the exception of those state and quasi-state forces through which the ruling Assad dynasty has exercised its power. The account offered by Seth Kaplan in A New U.S. Policy For Syria: Fostering Political Change in a Divided State offers […]
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Syria a Diplomatic Headache for Turkey, EU
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Ankara and some EU leaders had hoped the regime in Damascus could be coaxed onto a path of moderation and better relations. That was not to be. read more
