In a cruel paradox, many of the people who produce our food go without enough to eat themselves. Supermarkets must rewrite the rules of how value is created and shared.
Why China's cities are succeeding and a new way to tackle a growing health crisis.
The notorious attacks of the last few years have finally propelled cyber security to the top of the boardroom agenda. What can organizations do in the face of this rising threat?
Diamond mining and raw materials extraction are still plagued by instances of modern-day slavery, poor health and safety conditions and environmental destruction. The use of emerging technology, in particular blockchain, has huge potential to solve this.
The internet is nearly 30, and it’s starting to show signs of age. Links are in crisis, and our future depends on repairing this decaying infrastructure. Thankfully, this is now a fixable problem.
From predicting wars to understanding protest movements, machines can help us see the patterns in a seemingly chaotic world.
Global collaboration gives the artificial intelligence community dynamism, creativity and accountability, and it's the only way the huge potential for AI to do good will be realized.
Three ways to manage the technology, before the technology manages you.
A "soft robot" that can grasp items with the same dexterity as the human hand could revolutionize automation and help us to feed the world. Here's how.
Although India is one of the world's fastest-growing large economies, it ranks 131 out of 188 countries on the UNDP’s Human Development Index. Now it has launched a new programme to trans...
Africa is often depicted as a continent of mass exodus. Images of desperate Africans on overcrowded boats bound for Europe are plastered across our screens. A more balanced examination of...
From the circular economy to taxation and jute bags, here's how to mitigate plastic's harmful impacts.
A tourism industry worth $40 billion a year is a boon to the economy, but a high price to pay for the sanity of citizens. Just ask Italy.
Many technologists believe that blockchain will be more transformational than the internet itself. But is GDPR standing in its way?
What does the biggest football competition in the world have in common with a data protection regulation? More than you think, and team collaboration plays a big role in both.
Africa's first waste-to-energy plant could transform the continent's cities. Here's how.
In a region facing geopolitical turmoil, a lack of jobs and a shift away from oil-based economies, small businesses are leading the way towards growth and reform.
From life expectancy to electricity use, new data paints a picture of two Koreas who may be neighbours but couldn't be further apart.
If the people in the capital of Bangladesh understood the benefits of solar the way that people do in rural areas, the country could leapfrog several stages of the energy transition.
Mini-grids are a decentralized and renewable solution, generating and distributing power at the point of consumption.
How we produce, distribute, market and consume products and services is being disrupted and transformed.
The new realities facing organizations as they strive to combine human talent and machines are revealed by a new survey.
A new class at MIT applies moral philosophy to climate change.
These are the innovations that could make global trade more efficient, more inclusive, and less costly.
Economic, social and political pressures will ensure the world becomes carbon-neutral by 2050, but strong leadership is needed to stop the transition costing the earth.
Gender is one of the globally mandated biographical markers that must be on all passports issued worldwide, along with name, date of birth and nationality. But with the proliferation of b...
People have never travelled as much as they do today. More than four billion of us whizzed through the air in 2017. At the same time, travellers have never been so demanding. To deliver o...
