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Solomon Islands: young people flock to the city in search of jobs
In search of employment opportunities, young people from the outer provinces of Solomon Islands flock to Honiara – the country’s capital – in massive droves. There, they bunk with their extended relations who live in peri-urban settlements and in overcrowded housing. The only source of drinking water is from a […]
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Nairobi Future Day – Guns & Roses: Security, Ecology and East African Integration
Date: Mon, Nov 12, 2012 9:00am – 4:00pm Attendance restrictions: open to the public Location: Nairobi For the next Future Day, the Bertelsmann Foundation is partnering with the Society for International Development with support from the Rockefeller Foundation to create a dynamic event in Nairobi, Kenya. The Future Day will bring together voices from East […]
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“Megatrends in Global Interaction” Presented at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, DC (October 1, 2012) – The Global Futures Project introduced its recently published Megatrends in Global Interaction at a symposium at Washington, DC’s Gallaudet University, the world’s only university dedicated to serving the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing students. The event brought the research of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Global […]
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Moving ahead to new horizons – transparency, participation, sustainability
Moving ahead to new horizons might be a good project title for the happenings in the first week in July in Berlin which gave us the opportunity to step back for a moment, examine what we normally take for granted and venture a look forward as well as a glance […]
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Chandran Nair on the future
Chandran Nair, founder of the Hong Kong-based Global Institute for Tomorrow, offers a thought provoking thesis on how WE should start an honest discussion on how to build our common future.