This article was originally drafted by E. Phoutsavath 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. There is a saying in Laos that “the rich don’t go to prison, and the poor don’t go to hospital”. There is a lot 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. In recent years, the production of local handicrafts unique to the ethnic communities in Thailand’s poorest regions of the Northeast has received a boost […]

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 is witnessing a rise in the number of initiatives by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and private sector companies to improve English language […]

This article was originally drafted by Ashley E. Pritchard 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. The following text is an excerpt from an interview with Ms. Somsook Boonyabancha, Secretary General of the Asian Coalition for Housing […]

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 […]