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Social Inequality in Brazil: The People, Politics and the World Cup
Written by Future Challenges team
This post was written by Victoria Livingstone and posted on Fair Observer. You can find the original post here. Brazilians are unified in their frustration with the government before the World Cup. On May 20, bus drivers in São Paulo, Brazil’s biggest city, went on strike, closing 11 major terminals and […]
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Patrimônio – Stories of heritage, empathy and soccer
Written by flaviobezerra
Brazil hosted the second largest sports event in the world – the World Cup. Will the investment that Brazil makes into the World Cup pay off long term for the everyday lives of the Brazilian people?
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“Globalization and the Internet”: Magazine Sprint in Berlin
Written by Mario Wiedemann
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 […]
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The Resurgence of Regional Languages in Pakistan
Written by Maria Farooq
Language and identity are so intimately linked that a person’s accent can also reveal which part of the world they come from! For instance, if she is speaking English or Urdu, a Pashto-speaking person can very easily be recognized as belonging to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province or any other […]
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Where Free Trade Fails – The Cultural Dimension of TAFTA
Written by Dragos C. Costache
As a European, a tech geek and a fan of free trade I’m all in favour of the proposed EU-US free trade area. But as with any big agreement there are quite a few caveats to be added: net neutrality activists are claiming that TAFTA is just another backdoor for […]
