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  Politics is often associated with power and corruption globally. In the Indian sub-continent, its connotation gets darker, affecting human lives. But it is heartening to see that around the world, politics is embracing ICT as a means of not just propagate their political ideology, but also promoting and impressing […]

This article was written by Alessa Hartmann (German Forum on Environment and Development) and published in the “Transatlantic Colossus“. Abstract: The elimination of tariffs and the harmonization of standards increases economic power and produces wealth for all – this is the fallacy the negotiations between the US and the EU on […]

The TAFTA/TTIP Timeline The idea of a transatlantic free-trade zone is nothing new; at least it’s not as new as many people might think since it can be traced back to the founding of NATO. And while NATO is a purely military alliance, the notion of an Economic NATO is […]

FutureChallenges contributor Jamie Stark sat down with Daniel Domscheit-Berg at the Global Economic Symposium in Kiel on 1 October. Domscheit-Berg is a technology activist in Germany and abroad, founder of OpenLeaks, and in 2011 was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. That same year he […]

This article was originally drafted by Zara Rahman, with additional comments by Tanja Hichert and the South Africa Node of the Millennium Project, excerpting from from a Think Africa Press article as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Think of the oil industry and, along with spills and environmental […]