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Future Challenges Blog Carnival: Does the Internet Create a New Supranational, Borderless Culture? Future Challenges and the Internet and Society Collaboratory are organizers of the initiative “Globalization and the Internet: Information, People, Goods.” This blog carnival is part of the Collaboratory’s working group that analyzes the cultural aspects of Internet-related […]

Two months after a public debt crisis was declared and with various anti-crisis scenarios in circulation, the budget of Serbia was rebalanced in early June. If the balancing act had been a play, “Much Ado about Nothing” would have been a very fitting title for a great deal of windy […]

After a series of contentious legal disputes, in August 2013 Cancun will finally know whether the Chinese “Dragon Mart” will ever come into existence along the coast of Mexico’s most important tourist destination. The construction of the Dragon Mart business complex (similar to a shopping mall where many huge and […]

“You see a semi-human being before you, what the state has turned me into,” – says Vladimir Vladykin in his shocking Youtube video. “I’ve had a 180 EUR disability pension since 2005, and in 2010 the ruling party cut it down to 64 EUR. They don’t need us alive – […]

  The trade-off between growth and sustainability is a popular and much discussed topic in Brazil in these times of sustainable development. On the one hand, most mainstream politicians, the present government included, are enamored of economic growth at almost any cost, hoping this will welcome back foreign investment. Yet […]

  A conundrum of modern times, the debate on growth versus sustainability is like the age-old question of the chicken and the egg — which came first? Or in this case it is a question of priorities. Should we prioritise growth over sustainability or vice versa? Or why can’t be […]