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We have locked ourselves into a cave of our own making. We have become tribal and defensive. The mainstream media is categorized as elitist and politicized, unable to carry out its vital role of truth-telling as the fourth estate in global governance. We opt instead for opinion based on personal experience, using the social platforms as equivalent or superior forms of communication.

Why the fake news bomb has exploded

By: EBR | Friday, November 17, 2017

We are just out of the field on a flash poll in the U.S. taken last week, with 1,000 members of the general population and an oversample of 113 Silicon Valley-based tech employees on the impact of fake news on trust in mainstream media

In today’s hyperactive digital age, attaining wisdom is a challenge. With tablets and phones and their various apps constantly vying for our immediate attention, it is increasingly difficult to find the time and mental space for making meaningful connections or engaging in the deep conversations, reflection, emotional awareness, empathy and compassion, necessary in its pursuit.

Why wisdom can’t be taught?

By: EBR | Thursday, November 16, 2017

In the pursuit of wisdom, executives may find themselves taking off their masks to become truly authentic and reflective leaders

Embroiled in its own contradictions, the EU is already trying hard to convince Poland to ratify the second part of the Kyoto Protocol at COP23. The second European head of state to make his appearance, Emmanuel Macron, also failed to up his ambition.

COP23 in search of a leader

By: EBR | Thursday, November 16, 2017

Between coal-addicted Germany, France with its ideas but dearth of new commitments, and the EU entangled in its contradictions, the political weight of the COP23 turned out lighter than expected. EURACTIV France reports

The cyber security risk is growing as nuclear facilities become increasingly reliant on digital systems and make increasing use of commercial ‘off-the-shelf’ software, which offers considerable cost savings but increases vulnerability to hacking attacks.

Cyber security at civil nuclear facilities – understanding the risks

By: EBR | Thursday, November 16, 2017

Recent high-profile cyber attacks, including the deployment of the sophisticated 2010 Stuxnet worm, have raised new concerns about the cyber security vulnerabilities of nuclear facilities

This presents science with a few key opportunities to start turning the tide. First, the scientific community needs to acknowledge that it has some problems. Honesty about the scientific method, why many studies produce flawed results and how science’s self-correcting mechanism works, would be a start.

How Academics Can Rebuild Trust in Science

By: EBR | Thursday, November 16, 2017

The tools for overcoming declining trust in science lie in science itself

These may look very sophisticated for the ”proud youth” of the Balkans, but it is a routine for students of the British espionage. But, on the other side of the Atlantic, things have gone even further. As we read, the American audience (that has chosen to be concerned about such issues rather than university asylum and political party notes) appears to be divided in terms of accepting this new trend towards the complete abolition of live classes in the university halls and their transfer to live presentations via Internet.

Learning in the digital age: is Greece enough capable and to what extend can follow the digital learning developments?

By: EBR | Thursday, November 16, 2017

There may be difficulties in accepting the digitization of services such as taxi in our country, but the civilized world continues the evolutionary race

It is clear that Tsipras believes that he can make headway by presenting his government as being friendlier to the weakest members of Greek society than any administration led by Mitsotakis’ party.

Greece: step back to the past?

By: N. Peter Kramer | Tuesday, November 14, 2017

In his first speech to the SYRIZA parliamentary group since the summer, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stepped up his effort to put distance between SYRIZA and New Democracy in voters’ minds in what many see as a pre-cursor for the political battle to come in Greece over the coming months

“If someone wants to make investments and create jobs he can do so through the structures of the European economy. With offshore companies one hides black money, launders money or avoids tax evasion. The political problem remains because what is legitimate is not moral and I think that the competent authorities must do all the necessary checks on the so-called Mareva-Gate,” the Syriza MEP pointed out.

Paradise Papers is an ‘opportunity’ for EU to tackle multinational tax evasion, says Greek MEP

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 14, 2017

The Paradise Papers has presented the EU with a golden opportunity to crack down on tax evasion by multinationals and the art of investing profits from cheap labour in tax havens practised by emerging economies, insists European Parliament Vice-President Dimitris Papadimoulis

Society is struggling to adapt as fast as technology is moving, leading to suggestions we need to slow the pace of change through regulation, or spread its benefits via things like taxes on robots.

5 issues that will shape the future, according to the experts

By: EBR | Monday, November 13, 2017

Our future’s bright: new technology promises solutions to the world’s biggest problems. But the future’s also frightening: accelerating change is disrupting every aspect of life

The Paradise Paper leaks, however, come at an appropriate moment. On 14th November 28 European countries have a unique opportunity to tackle this issue in negotiations on the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive. One of the remaining sticking points is the degree to which information will be made publicly available on beneficial owners of companies and trusts. Some of the biggest member states like Germany have been opposing greater transparency in this area.

After Paradise Papers, it is high time for the EU to act

By: EBR | Monday, November 13, 2017

The Paradise Papers showed once again that anonymous companies are being used as a 'getaway vehicle' for criminality

Government-driven innovation is not, of course, a new concept. Take France. In the 1960s and 1970s, it pushed for the TGV, the high-speed train that was then a radical idea. Around the same time, the French and British governments absorbed the development costs of the Concorde supersonic airliner. In 1978, France’s national postal and telecommunications services started designing Minitel, one of the world’s most successful pre-World Wide Web online services.

Governments: the next heroes of innovation

By: EBR | Monday, November 13, 2017

As the world’s biggest buyers of goods and services, governments can play a starring role in the pursuit of knowledge-economy reforms

Buildings and monuments may last for hundreds, if not for thousands of years. Some valuable family heirloom may be passed down from generation to generation, a ring, a watch, a painting, a hand-written letter. And even though cultural objects do not possess a meaning by themselves, they literally are what we make of them and what we see in them.

Why culture matters: fostering identity through cultural heritage

By: EBR | Monday, November 13, 2017

A museum director’s reflections on vexing global issues such as identity, tolerance, conflict and war

Understanding China is daunting enough when you’re studying government papers or trying to keep up with the latest news. But the real challenge for China-watchers, even the veterans, is putting an ear to the ground and listening to what the people are talking about.

Your Guide To Chinese Social Media

By: EBR | Sunday, November 12, 2017

It's not just WeChat and Weibo

At the same time, poverty, inequality and rapid urban growth put increasing numbers of people in harm’s way and cause precarious living conditions, further driving future risk of displacement. What forces people to move is not simply the fact that they are in the wrong place at the wrong time; they have to flee because they are vulnerable.

Changing climate, shifting policies

By: EBR | Thursday, November 9, 2017

Just a few months ago, the World Bank did something remarkable. It recommended open-access migration to Australia and New Zealand for populations of Small Island States in the Pacific that will be most affected by climate change

Where is the right place to draw the line between data capture - or surveillance - and privacy? What kinds of personal information can be legitimately considered when assessing someone’s employment, creditworthiness or insurance status? Who oversees the algorithms that decide what happens in society?

Life in 2030: these are the 4 things experts can’t predict

By: EBR | Thursday, November 9, 2017

Alvin Toffler predicted a future in his 1970 bestseller Future Shock that looks much like today’s reality

Imagine of a coin. When it stays intact, then it can show either heads or tails (0 or 1). When we flip the coin in the air, the coin stops showing only one of the two shapes and cycles between the two shapes, showing at the same time both of them. To make it simple, this is the quantum way of saving and processing the information in subatomic particles. 0 and 1 at the same time.

What if imagination turns into reality

By: EBR | Wednesday, November 8, 2017

The new generation of quantum computers is called to cause a radical revolution in each field of knowledge

Those that cannot embrace change will stumble. Some countries have homegrown movements that are hostile to science. They fight battles of the last century, engaged in recriminations of past wrongs. They politicize science while mired in debt and financial and political paralysis. It is not hard to predict the long-term results of such actions. These countries resign their citizens to the wrath of economic stagnation.

5 predictions for what life will be like in 2030

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 7, 2017

You are just waking up in the spring of 2030. Your Internet of Things bedroom opens solar powered e-windows and plays gentle music while your smart lighting displays a montage of beachfront sunrises from your recent vacation

Climate Action, in a unique partnership with UN Environment, has been hosting the Sustainable Innovation Forum for eight consecutive years, where it brings together policymakers and the private and technological sector to exchange knowledge, inspiration, and successful business cases to prove that climate action has become inherent to the new ‘business-as-usual’.

Climate Action brings the private sector to COP23

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 7, 2017

The Paris Agreement set out principles, but not the details of implementation, meaning that the Bonn meeting will be vital in building the rules that will enable the Paris goals

The US is retreating from their hitherto impressive position. President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in June raised concerns about whether the pact would endure.

Five things that will be top of the agenda at the COP23 climate summit

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 7, 2017

The United Nations' Climate Change Conference kicked off in Bonn today, formally called the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23)

That people are forced to leave their homes because of climate change is not at some distant time in an unimaginable future, it is happening right now. And mass displacement caused by climate change can also ignite conflict.

We need to talk about climate refugees

By: EBR | Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Climate change is not just about polar bears, it is about all life on our planet, and it poses a threat to humanity as great – or greater – than war or terrorism. Steve Trent warns that climate change is increasingly viewed as a threat to global peace

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