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The sixth in a series of Future Challenges Readers with the best blogposts on a given topic is now online! Free Trade: Bane or Benefit is the first bilingual Future Challenges Reader. All articles appear both in English and in German. International globalization has been shown to contribute to total […]

Hundreds of scientists, CEOs, representatives from NGOs and many more came to Kiel at the beginning of October 2013 to attend the annual Global Economic Symposium (GES). After last year’s journey to Rio de Janeiro the GES came back to its base in the capital of Germany’s northernmost state, Schleswig-Holstein. […]

The second “Globalization and the Internet” workshop – hosted by Future Challenges and the Internet and Society Collaboratory in Berlin – took place at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin at the end of August. The participants of this workshop started a magazine sprint which will result in a publication […]

Last month Future Challenges and the Internet and Society Collaboratory organized a kick-off workshop for the “Globalization and the Internet: Information, People, Goods” project in Berlin. Some 30 experts with various professional backgrounds came to a former supermarket in Berlin to form different working groups. Four working groups will discuss […]

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 […]