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This article was originally drafted by Colonel Dr. Teeranan Nandhakwang and Noviscape for the newsletter “Trendnovation Southeast” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. An Invisible Threat: A Shift towards Non-Traditional Security Telecommunication and the internet can facilitate communication across time and space. The world already […]

Dear Readers, Below you will find our August –October 2012 Update. This quarterly Megatrends Project Update focuses on the November Future Day in Nairobi Kenya and on 2012 highlights. [issuu width=420 height=272 embedBackground=%23000000 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=121212202518-25e61a22df874eed9d53e71aba0545f3 name=futurechallengesupdate_q412 username=bertelsmannfoundation tag=blog unit=px v=2] If you would like to be added to the e-mail […]

This article was originally drafted by Rob Jamieson and Indochina Research for the newsletter “I-Light” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. In the past three years, up to 25,000 young Cambodian women have migrated to Malaysia in pursuit of better paid employment as domestic workers. The […]

By ruling that Buenos Aires must repay sovereign bond holdouts, Judge Griesa may have complicated similar programs in Europe while derailing any hope of Argentina’s reentry into the global financial system. It is tough to blame Judge Thomas Griesa for throwing the book at Argentina. The enigmatic South American nation […]

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. Thailand has introduced ‘tree bank’, a new financial model, to help poor farmers repay their loans. The success of the concept could reduce rural […]