Managing "crisis" and public sector organizations
By: EBR | Wednesday, December 11, 2019
In the everyday life, the concept of crisis can encompass the whole range of activities and relationships, at an individual, social and political level
Blockchain: Finding the Value Proposition
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 10, 2019
The hype around Bitcoin may be subsiding, but the evolution of the underlying blockchain continues to generate excitement as one of the most important and disruptive technological innovations since the internet
Germany’s industrial sector suffers its deepest downturn in a decade
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, December 9, 2019
Germany’s industrial sector is suffering its biggest decline since 2009, the engine of the eurozone’s biggest economy is sputtering
The EU’s Incomplete Strategy for Central Asia
By: EBR | Tuesday, December 3, 2019
The EU will need to increase its visibility in Central Asia if it wants to have influence in a region facing immense challenges from China and India, but also from Afghanistan and threats of terrorism
China Adopts Malicious "Cybersecurity" Rules
By: EBR | Monday, December 2, 2019
On January 1, China’s Cryptography Law becomes effective
How the inventor of the internet plans to make it safe and accessible for everyone
By: EBR | Thursday, November 28, 2019
When Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989, he envisioned it as an information management system for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where he was working at the time
Global warming emissions hit new record in 2018, UN says
By: EBR | Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Temperatures can be expected to rise by 3.2C this century under current national pledges, threatening to bringing “wide-ranging and destructive climate impacts”
Taiwan blocked from UNFCCC
By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, November 25, 2019
Despite the reality of the climate crisis and the obvious need for nations around the world to come together, Taiwan continues to be excluded from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
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
By: N. Peter Kramer
