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This post was inspired by a session I listened to called “Revolution postponed: The Arab Spring and Africa” at the just concluded Global Media Forum hosted by Deutsche Welle. Who provides the worldwide acceptable definition of the word ‘Revolution’? Who owns the word? Is it Tunisia, because they pretty much […]

Every week, my flat mates and I purchase a 20 litres drinking water tank from the street vendors in our township in downtown Yangon. We pay 500 Kyats (about 40 Euro Cents) and get a sealed tank, which is a lot cheaper than bottled water (for which you almost pay […]

At the onset, let me state that the scale and manner of the Global Media Forum (GMF) took me quite by surprise. And to be honest, I was ignorant of the magnitude of Deutsche Welle. As a consumer of primarily English media (read as BBC, CNN and of late Al Jazeera), […]

In 2008, a formal proposal was presented to the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London, asking to make the Anthropocene, the age of man, a formal geological epoch. However, with the exponential growth of computing power and the increases in algorithmic intelligence, it seems far more likely that […]

  Restructuring Economies, Transforming Societies Over the past few decades, the world has embarked on a course that is unsustainable, inequitable and inadequate in terms of environmental degradation, depletion of natural resources, and transfers between and within generations; income and wealth distribution; global governance. Overcoming these problems requires us to […]