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In the wake of this changing landscape, countries must rethink their industrial strategies. And there are pockets of progress. With the launch of Industrie 4.0 in 2011, Germany was one of the first countries to increase digitization and the interconnection of products, value chains, and business models to drive digital manufacturing forward. Japan’s Society 5.0 – a strategy to use emerging technology to transform not only production, but all of society – followed in 2016.

Which countries are best prepared for the future of production?

By: EBR | Friday, January 19, 2018

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) gathers momentum, spurring the development of new techniques and business models that will fundamentally transform production, decision-makers across government, industry and society are confronted by a new set of uncertainties

In fact, many of those predictions for the future in which we live weren’t far off, from the proliferation of automobiles and airplanes to the widespread transmission of information. Of course, the specifics of how those devices would work sometimes fell broad of the mark. Yet these predictions show us just how much our technology has progressed in just a century — and just how much further more innovation could take us.

Life in 2018, as predicted by people in 1918

By: EBR | Friday, January 12, 2018

People in the early 20th century were hopeful about the future innovation might bring

It is the ESM’s task to increase the euro area‘s stability and its ability to weather crises. This creates various problems that need to be weighed up against each other. Beefing up bail-out funds for crises can reduce the immediate cost of crises when they occur. At the same time, however, such funds undermine incentives to prevent crises from arising in the first place.

A three-step plan for a better European Monetary Fund

By: EBR | Monday, January 8, 2018

The European Commission’s ESM reform plans are so one-sided that they can only exacerbate the Eurozone’s existing problems and deepen the gulf between creditor and debtor states, writes Clemens Fuest

Migration is a case in point: the way it’s changing, and is projected to change in the future, highlights how the impacts of climate change on one place spill over to other parts of the world. A new study in Science finds that as crops fail in agricultural regions of the world, more people will seek asylum in Europe in the coming decades. If the current warming trends were to continue, the research predicts that by 2100 Europe will receive around 660,000 extra applicants each year.

Climate change is going to drive thousands of refugees to cooler countries

By: EBR | Monday, January 8, 2018

By the end of the century, climate change may drive 660,000 additional asylum seekers per year toward Europe. Growing mass migration is only one of the social and environmental consequences of increasing temperatures

Because blockchain relies on a distributed ledger system that is decentralized and immutable, it's intended to be a permanent, tamper-proof record that sits outside the control of any one governing authority. This is what makes it such an attractive and useful technology. But because data stored on the blockchain, including personal data, can't be deleted, there is no way to exercise the right to erasure that people are granted under GDPR. Blockchain is not designed to be GDPR-compatible. Or rather, GDPR is not blockchain-compatible the way it is written today.

Will GDPR block Blockchain?

By: EBR | Saturday, January 6, 2018

As someone who has worked in data policy and data protection for 20 years, I read privacy policies for a living

How do we overcome these divisions? Part of the answer lies in rethinking the systems that bind society together and that look after those adversely affected by structural changes. Societies have always had mechanisms for looking after the young and the old, for spreading income over the life cycle, and for looking after those who have fallen on hard times, with some combination of support from family, community organisations, the market and the state.

A leading economist has a plan to heal our fractured societies

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 3, 2018

We live in increasingly divided societies, in which the social contracts that bind us are fraying. One driver is globalisation, which has intensified competitive pressures. Another is technology, which has increased the returns to highly skilled labour, and exacerbated inequality

With its Loon project, a project to provide Internet access in remote areas by means of high-altitude balloons, the company tries to be omnipresent. With its search engine, language assistants and measurement sensors in our rooms, Google wants to be omniscient, too.

Google and the Birth of a Digital God?

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 3, 2018

A question that not only science fiction lovers should ask is: What future do we want to live in?

Our eyes now turn to our country: Greece needs to overcome its problems and create a safe, stable and prosperous future for the generations to come. Therefore, we must decide to become owners of our fate and to master our own future, leaving bad practices behind for good.

Greece stands at a crossroad in its history

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 3, 2018

The Greek economic crisis and the inherent weakness of our country, is a result of reckless behavior mostly on the part of the governments, especially on the fiscal front, but also the very strong tendency to consume, and a very weak propensity to produce

The findings are part of the Militarization 2.0 project, a three-country team of researchers working on a four-year study of the militarization of social media. The report demonstrates the sheer scale of such content, discusses its meaning, shows how it is engaged with and circulated by social media users and discusses the implications for citizens and government. The conclusions are perhaps counter-intuitive.

The militarization of social media: strategies and challenges

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Social media is a nearly ubiquitous aspect of everyday life, with political and social implications that societies are only now starting to approach.

Technologies are more accessible than ever and they have the potential to empower people around the world. But they also have the potential to embed existing power structures, if they are dominated by vested interests. Those of us in positions of power, including in the NGO community, must be certain we are putting new technologies into the hands of the people we work for, not using them to prop up our own established positions.

A resolution a month for 2018

By: EBR | Friday, December 29, 2017

How we will reinvigorate trust this year

Unemployment from its highest rate at the end of 2014 has now dropped by around 7 points, with about 300,000 new job positions and close to the first mark of 20%. In the financial sector, we have achieved a historic, credible adjustment for the first time in the European history. With this positive dynamic, we will welcome the New Year, and therefore, 2018 will be a year - crossroads for Greece and the Greek economy, with the country leaving behind the memorandums in August 2018, and with them, I would say, and an entire era, an entire historical age, and enters the next day with strong growth rates, renewed and, most importantly, with faith in its own forces. Also, recently, a very positive development with strong meaning was the timely closure of the technical part of the 3rd Assessment, and most importantly with the best possible conditions for the country and the Greek society.

2018 will be a milestone for Greece and the Greek economy

By: EBR | Friday, December 22, 2017

According to the latest figures, Greece's economy has been developing for the first time in the last three quarters

Xi Jinping’s growing consolidation of power is giving ever more momentum to the ambitious Chinese plan to gain dominance of high-tech industries. This is nothing short of a head-on assault, given that these industries to date have been the main source of strength in U.S. and European economies.

5G: China’s Dream to Dominate World Technology

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The China threat and the U.S.-European convergence of interests

We all live by myths and legends. They abbreviate the universe for us. That is a crucial contribution to maintaining the emotional and mental stability that allows us to function.

Deconstructing Globalization

By: EBR | Wednesday, December 20, 2017

The anthropological dimension of why we blame “globalization” for our own, very human lack of proper action and understanding

But in the short term, there is no easy solution. China accounts for more than half of global demand for plastic waste and half of global paper scrap imports, and waste traders struggle to find alternative markets. The Bureau of International Recycling recently held its annual summit in India, the third largest waste importer after China and Hong Kong. “India for sure has huge potential, but the figures are not there yet,” said Arnaud Brunet, the director of BIR.

Chinese waste ban ‘wake-up call’ for European recycling

By: EBR | Monday, December 18, 2017

The EU has a trash problem. It used to ship 60% of plastics and 13% of paper collected for recycling to China, but Beijing has decided to curb its appetite for foreign waste

Working with an amazing leader is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity – not everyone can work with Nelson Mandela or Gandhi or even a rock star boss like Bruce Springsteen. Leaders in the knowledge economy, those who have moved up the ranks from team member to team leader, aren’t always charismatic. It’s far more commonplace to find team leaders who were promoted to a leadership role without developing their leadership skills.

Choose Your Leadership Style

By: EBR | Monday, December 18, 2017

Team leadership style doesn’t have to be a personality trait; it can be chosen

We know that in the EU the statistical data available does not capture the full prevalence of the phenomenon. But the EU’s data does indicate clear trends, and these are consistent with data from international organisations and other bodies. According to the EU’s First Report in 2016 on the progress made in the fight against trafficking in human beings, 15,846 victims of THB were registered between 2013 and 2014, with two-thirds being EU citizens. Trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is still by far the most highly reported form of trafficking in the EU (67% of registered victims), with 95% of the victims being women and girls. This is followed by trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation (21%) and trafficking for other forms of exploitation (12%), including for the purpose of criminal activities, forced begging and organ removal.

EU countries must do more to address human trafficking

By: EBR | Monday, December 18, 2017

Trafficking in human beings, also known as THB, is the selling and buying, like commodities, of women and men, girls and boys, with the purpose of exploiting them

Sonja Chirico Indrebø is vice-president of Strategy and Innovation at Statoil, the Norwegian energy company. Between 2011 and 2015, she served as the chief information officer and senior vice-president for IT at the Norwegian company.

Statoil VP: ‘Natural gas has a home in the zero-carbon world’

By: EBR | Monday, December 18, 2017

Europe can decarbonise its industry thanks to a combination of natural gas, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage technology, Statoil executive Sonja Chirico Indrebø told EURACTIV Slovakia in an interview

India’s multiple identities only add to this weight: as the world’s largest democracy, it commands the legitimacy to shape an open and free internet; while its role as a developing country ensures it will account for what matters to the global south, such as affordable access, local content generation and platform security.

Democratic, innovative and secure: how India can shape the future of the internet

By: EBR | Friday, December 15, 2017

India is fast becoming the indispensable nation of cyberspace. The Indian market could decide the future of many technology giants. As such, she can be seen as a policy pioneer

It is, however, important to recognize that, like any insidious disease, corruption presents multiple myths or red herrings to obfuscate its source and elude attempts to cure it. The following aims to wade through each of these red herrings, and identify where in the societal body we might administer a treatment to attack corruption at its true source.

Four myths about corruption

By: EBR | Friday, December 15, 2017

Corruption is sometimes portrayed as a “cancer” in society

At the moment, depositors know that ultimately, the buck stops with their government. To know that all of Europe is behind the guarantee would be a big reassurance. Once in place, you would hardly ever need to use a common deposit insurance.

These 5 big ideas could secure Europe’s future

By: EBR | Friday, December 15, 2017

A year ago, Europe woke to a big shock. Donald Trump had been elected president of the United States. The polls hadn’t seen it coming. They hadn’t seen Brexit coming either

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