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Studying true social well-being: The factors countries use to measure progress – and why public debate on the topic is enough to spark change. Increasing gross domestic product alone is not an adequate measure of social progress, something that many people around the globe have come to recognize. In various […]

Future Challenges is co-initiator of the Internet and Society Collaboratory’s 9th initiative: Globalization and Internet – Information, People, Goods. The Idea behind the Initiative Trade agreements like the pending TAFTA hold great potential for people, the flow of information and the exchange of goods, and thus for progress and prosperity […]

They come by it honestly. Much like their European relatives, Latin American leaders have a sweet tooth for the summit, the annual meeting and the commission. Lofty goals and promises of solidarity are sealed with vigorous handshakes, bear hugs and kisses on the cheek. But beyond the ubiquitous photos of […]

This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Recent attempts to enable poor workers employed in manual labor jobs to access job postings and listings via information and communication technology (ICT) are […]

We have published our fourth in a series of Future Challenges Readers! This volume examines the costs and benefits of the growing economic bonds between countries all over the world. While ever-greater trade and financial flows between countries bring countless benefits, they also create the danger that a catastrophe in one economy […]