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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

Of course, there are a lot more scientific questions that need to be solved before any trip to Mars as astronauts aside from surviving also need to have a minimum quality of life. “Astronauts need to be able to do their jobs, enjoy their life and not suffer. Therefore, we are also investigating the psychological aspect of humans in space, for example how do we select them? Do we take very quiet people or the most sociable? Usually astronauts are very sociable” concludes Prof. Baatout.

Human life support in Space and the contribution of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre

By: EBR | Monday, November 6, 2017

Interviews with Eric van Walle and Sarah Baatout

A common feature of these companies is that they develop smart features that bigger firms want. In Vector’s case, this included clever designs and a 30-day battery life. Butcher puts this down to what he called a “slight culture of innovation”. These countries, he said, “haven’t got lots of assets to burn, so they build things efficiently”.

These unexpected places have become start-up hotspots

By: EBR | Friday, November 3, 2017

You know your nation is making it as a tech innovation hub when Silicon Valley companies buy your home-grown startups for a hefty price tag

Why Gates and Jobs shielded their kids from tech

By: EBR | Friday, November 3, 2017

Psychologists are quickly learning how dangerous smartphones can be for teenage brains. Research has found that an eighth-grader's risk for depression jumps 27% when he or she frequently uses social media

Sadly, acting as the biggest block to any social policy improvements in the EU isn’t only a Tory tradition. Yes, exploitative British bosses, traditional supporters of the Conservative party, have always been keen on minimizing their wage bill and avoid paying social security contributions. They have thus seen to it that many workers from poorer EU countries were “posted” to Britain.

Worker Rights: Macron Vs. Britain

By: EBR | Thursday, November 2, 2017

Macron’s important reform move on EU posted workers’ directive goes to complete waste in the UK

Protecting our planet through climate action on multiple fronts

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Climate change is a scientific fact, and its effects are already being distinctly felt around the world, threatening human health, the places we inhabit, and the sustainability of our socioeconomic systems

With White House aides such as presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and others given a major role in foreign policy, the question of ‘who is responsible for what segment’ of national security remains an open one, said a senior official in the government of a close European ally, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk about sensitive diplomatic issues. Unpredictability “may be a useful tool with adversaries,” he said, but with allies it creates ‘uncertainty and irritation’.

Rex Tillerson: puppet on a string of Trump?

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 31, 2017

How is US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson doing his job? The former chairman and CEO of Exon Mobil Corporation is in charge since February 1, 2017

Space could be the final frontier for the world’s digital divide

By: EBR | Monday, October 30, 2017

What would happen if we could send an SMS from literally any place on Earth to any other place on the planet?” That’s the best framework for impact I can think of for satellite communications in development

The New Silk Road: 8 steps to ensuring China’s $900 billion project is a success

By: EBR | Monday, October 30, 2017

The Silk Road was the name given in 1877 by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen to the ancient network of trade routes linking China to central and western Asia, India and the Mediterranean region

Accelerating Europe’s digital transformation

By: EBR | Thursday, October 26, 2017

The digital and physical worlds are converging, a transformation led by technologies such as cloud computing and the ‘internet of things’ (IoT)

In the wrong hands, the misuse of surveillance-based personal data will have catastrophic consequences for us as individuals and for society as a whole. In an explicitly or implicitly totalitarian state, this kind of information could be used to predict and identify those people who don’t agree with certain government policies and sanction them even before they can exercise their democratic rights.

Digital fascism rising?

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Any claim that we humans are (already) contending with a new form of – this time digital – fascism will immediately be discredited as overblown

The LIBE report sets a new standard for inflexibility and a refusal to embrace technology innovations, according to DIGITALEUROPE. ‘We need an ePrivacy regulation that ensures a high level of legal protection for confidentiality of communications, and one that enables digital innovation – not one that chooses one over the other’.

EP Report on ePrivacy is ‘unbalanced and lacks broad support’

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, October 23, 2017

Only a small majority of the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) voted in favour on the report on ePrivacy

The potential for technologies to enable smart societies is rising. For example, internet-of-things sensor applications are envisioned to deliver a wide range of services, from smart water to industrial controls to e-health. The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 trillion by 2020, and $3.5 trillion by 2026. Surely, given the size of the opportunity, increasing interest among governments and policy makers, and the explosion of relevant technologies, we can start to understand what smart societies are and establish standards and ideals to aim for.

The society of the future looks nothing like you might imagine

By: EBR | Friday, October 20, 2017

What is a “smart” society? While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances

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In his weekly column, N. Peter Kramer writes about the laborious efforts of the EU member states to find a more assertive China strategy.

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