12-14 November - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
| Recorded sessions - English | جلسة مسجلة |
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Hanne Shapiro is Centre Manager of Policy and Business Analysis, Danish Technological Institute, Denmark and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Employment
Unemployment remains a major concern for individuals and will continue to be one over the coming years. Interestingly, however, perceptions among female...
A mundane programming task arose last week in the tech team of Qordoba, a digital content creation company where I work in Dubai. Given that we work with hundreds of freelance content writers, translators and editors from across the Middle East, we are comfortable using freelancers for internal tasks as well, from accounting to design to data entry.
Posting the job on one of the largest global contracting sites, the Singapore-...
Increasing demand for food, water, energy and minerals is putting greater pressure on the planet. Over the next decade, trillions of dollars will be invested in mining and energy development, much of it in undeveloped natural areas. The future sustainability of these places depends on making better decisions now about how we protect, manage, and develop our lands and waters....
Super storm Sandy was another painful reminder of the world we live in as climate change progresses. In the past few years, across all continents, severe weather has caused much loss of life and has also taken its toll on assets, infrastructure and economic growth. In Brazil alone, about 12 million people were affected by different disasters between 1994 and 2003. Given the high fatality rate in the state of Rio de Janeiro in early 2011...
This past April, my wife, several McGill University colleagues and I embarked on a safari in a remote area of Jabalpur, Nepal. While “on board” an elephant, I was suddenly drawn by a tiny hut made of bamboo and hay. What caught my eye was the television dish antenna installed beside the “wall” of this simple abode of illiterate people with meagre economic means.
A similarly captivating moment took place in Algiers, Algeria, in...
