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The Most Dangerous Place for Journalists
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FutureChallenges.org is a global project with a blogger network that stretches across the world. The FutureChallenges team is thus informed about the working conditions for journalists and bloggers in many countries. Recently, the journalist Saleem Shahzad has been killed in Pakistan after he had been reporting on the connections between […]
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Visualizations For A Better Understanding
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We are just at the beginning to see really exciting infographics, interactive charts and various kind of visualizations on the web. News companies like The Guardian are at the forefront, just remember what they came up with regarding wikileaks. For us at futurechallenges (open) data visualization is an important issue. […]
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Bhutan’s Money Minting Larva/fungi
Written by Sonam Ongmo
In 1998 Norman Myers, a British environmentalist specializing in biodiversity, ranked Bhutan as one of the top ten biodiversity hotspots in the world. This was because: i) the diverse topography and climatic conditions – ranging from Alpine conditions in the north to temperate and sub-tropical conditions in the south – […]
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How the Resource Curse Manipulates Good Governance in Australia
Written by Lourdes Gomez
Natural Resources are supposed to be the greatest gift a country could discover. Undoubtedly, Australia takes advantage of this gift they have discovered. You can “discover” land and resource, but are you really “discovering” it or just finding it again? In a world where everything is about ‘getting rights to […]
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Where Scientists and Netizens Meet
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Andreas Esche is director of the program “Shaping the Global Future” at Bertelsmann Stiftung and in this function responsible for futurechallenges.org. For him futurechallenges.org is a milestone in the way Bertelsmann Stiftung is bridging the gap between science and networks and in the way it’s embracing social media. Ulrike interviewed […]
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Illegal Immigrants’ Dilemma in Sending Money Home
Written by M. Farhan Janjua
Just like other Middle Eastern people, the people of South Asian region – especially of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and India – dream of being rich and setting up in some developed country preferably in North America or Europe. The only difference is that the situation becomes worse when most people […]
