How to achieve a quality, universal education
By: EBR | Thursday, November 21, 2019
In setting global targets for closing the gender gap and achieving universal education by 2030, governments and development advocates tend to focus on the need to build more schools and increase enrollment rates for women and girls
New global research: What will customer experience look like in 2030?
By: EBR | Thursday, November 21, 2019
Study finds by 2030 67% of customer engagement will be handled by smart machines. Do brands run the risk of trading empathy for efficiency?
Transforming food systems is crucial to the SDGs. Here’s what needs to change by 2021
By: EBR | Thursday, November 21, 2019
If we are to achieve the UN’s SDGs by 2030, immediate and urgent action is required to transform how food is produced, accessed, valued and consumed
Climate Crisis: From Dreams to Hope
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Sustainable trends in business need to focus on facts, rather than on romantic ideas about the environment
Passwords should become a thing of the past
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 19, 2019
When the man who invented passwords says it’s time to move on, it probably is. Four years ago, Fernando Corbato, who invented the first computer password in the 1960s, said that passwords had become "a nightmare”
Youth movements are the fool’s gold of politics
By: EBR | Friday, November 15, 2019
Demonstrations make for selfies and virtue-signaling, not political change
Is “Trumpism” the Future of America?
By: EBR | Thursday, November 14, 2019
Nikki Haley from Trump skeptic to Trump cheerleader, the former UN ambassador has followed the trajectory of the GOP
Why law enforcement and businesses need to join forces to fight global cybercrime
By: EBR | Thursday, November 14, 2019
The digital revolution is changing the way law enforcement protects communities and the way businesses manage risk
The first central bank digital currency has come into reality
By: EBR | Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Eventually, Tunisia seems to be the winner, as for the blockchain-based national currency! The "e-dinar", that is the first digital currency organized by a Central Bank, has just officially been issued
We must bridge the gap between technology and policymaking. Our future depends on it
By: EBR | Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Technologists and policymakers largely inhabit two separate worlds. It’s an old problem, one that the British scientist CP Snow identified in a 1959 essay entitled The Two Cultures
Greta Thunberg’s activism lays a false Climate Change trail
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Few would contest the European Union’s claim to have triggered, and then led, the late 20th century’s worldwide debate on climate change
The $450B opportunity for the applications of artificial intelligence in the banking sector & examples of how banks are using AI
By: EBR | Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Discussions, articles, and reports about the AI opportunity across the financial services industry continue to proliferate amid considerable hype around the technology
Cybersecurity can teach business how to succeed with platform models. Here’s how
By: EBR | Friday, November 1, 2019
In the early era of industrial growth, the only option for a successful business was to fully integrate supply chains and human capital
This is what 2030 could look like if we win the war on climate change
By: EBR | Friday, November 1, 2019
By 2030, your CO2 emissions will be greatly reduced. Meat on your dinner table will be a rare sight. Water and the air you breathe will be cleaner and nature will be in recovery. The money in your wallet will be spent on being with family and friends, not on buying goods
Three ways in which football is helping to recycle plastic
By: EBR | Friday, November 1, 2019
Organisers of sports events are increasingly aware of the environmental impact such events have and are making efforts to become more sustainable, including by reducing and reusing plastics
Why it is Not the Crisis of Capitalism
By: EBR | Tuesday, October 29, 2019
There has recently been an avalanche of articles and books about the ¨crisis of capitalism” predicting its demise or depassement
Economists on the Run
By: EBR | Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House?
Preparing Your Firm for AI
By: EBR | Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Firms looking to leverage the transformational potential of AI should remember that it is still people who determine the context in which the new technology develops and thrives
Smart taxation in a fast-changing global economy
By: EBR | Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Everyone across the globe is embracing smart technology and digitalisation. In this rapidly changing environment, smart taxation is the solution to drive growth, address current and future challenges of economic change, fulfill international goals and at the same time taking into consideration national needs
Christoph Leitl re-elected as President of EUROCHAMBRES: ‘Politicians can define goals, but companies can realise them’
By: N. Peter Kramer | Friday, October 11, 2019
Christoph Leitl is re-elected as President of EUROCHAMBRES for a new term (2020-22) during the 126th Plenary Assembly – Board of Directors
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