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COMMONWEALTH BLOG - Issues, Insights, & Innovation
Forbes
Sep 1, 2024
13 situations when an in-person meeting might be better than electronic exchanges.
The rise of electronic communication has led to a change in how workplace interactions happen. Meeting up to talk to someone was once...
RCS Ottawa
May 21, 2024
"The A.I. Dilemma" - a rebellious teenager?
AI has already consumed the information on the internet and is now generating new content and ideas, and self-improving its' programming....
RCS Ottawa
Nov 2, 2022
How work is changing?
Has the world of work really changed that much post-pandemic? We have no shortage of zeitgeists to examine. Is it the Great Resignation ,...
RCS Ottawa
Dec 6, 2020
Commonwealth Youth Profile - Aniqah Zowmi
Canadian Aniqah Zowmi brings expertise and passion for helping governments and civic organisations embrace equality and diversity and...
Nature
Dec 6, 2020
mRNA the innovation behind Pfizer and Moderna vaccines
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is a pivotal molecule of life, involved in almost all aspects of cell biology. The last decade has seen improvements...
RCS Ottawa
Dec 3, 2020
Commonwealth Innovation for Sustainable Development Awards.
Before January 31, 2021, individuals, groups or teams, organisations, companies, charities or government ministries / departments /...
Quartz
Dec 3, 2020
Coronavirus relief funds could pay to stop the worst of climate change while rebooting economies
As of late summer, governments around the world had pledged $12.2 trillion of relief in response to the coronavirus pandemic. That’s...
RCS Ottawa
Oct 6, 2020
The Doughnut Economy
Meeting the needs of all within the means of the planet, the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries is a playfully serious approach...
RCS Ottawa
Sep 21, 2020
Upcoming Commonwealth Virtual Events
Webinar Series: Youth - Taking Charge of our Future Rule of Law - during COVID-19 Blue Charter - collaboration ... Previous events
Social Progress
Sep 20, 2020
What life is like around the world - 2020 Social Progress Index
The year's Social Progress Index provides a comprehensive country by country ranking of social progress over the last 10 years, across...
Quartz
Sep 20, 2020
Ghost Towns - Can cities survive without office workers?
Rethinking everything, almost two months after businesses in the UK started reopening, just 17% of office workers had made it back to the...
Quartz
Sep 20, 2020
COVID - Global Citizens (Citizenship by Investment)
The pandemic has led to unprecedented border closures and travel restrictions. Experts say that’s helped the Citizenship or Residence By...
Foreign Affairs
Sep 20, 2020
The Global Economy Will Never Be the Same
The Pandemic Depression.
RCS Ottawa
May 26, 2020
Bishop: Basic income about ‘what’s right to do for people’
On May 3, the Anglican Church of Canada published a letter sent to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling for a guaranteed basic income...
Quartz
Apr 4, 2020
Student Debt - Undermining Education
Student debt is rising across the industrialized world. And in the US, where the problem is most extreme, it now tops $1.64 trillion—8%...
RCS Ottawa
Apr 4, 2020
Africa's Economic Winter
Even if Africa somehow avoided the worst of the coronavirus' human toll, it’s going to be near impossible to avoid a major economic drop...
World Economic Forum
Apr 4, 2020
Emissions drop
Emissions are already falling as the world responds to the coronavirus, but the looming global recession, predicted by more than 40% of...
RCS Ottawa
Mar 31, 2020
Barclays sets 2050 'net zero' carbon goal after investor pressure
Barclays, one of the biggest lenders in Europe to the fossil fuel industry, on Monday set itself a target to reach “net zero” for its own...
RCS Ottawa
Feb 16, 2020
The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells
The Dungeness crab is vital to commercial fisheries in the Pacific Northwest, but lower pH levels in its habitat are dissolving parts of...
The Guardian
Feb 16, 2020
Has dopamine got us hooked on tech?
Facebook's founding president, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to unite us, but to distract us. “The thought...
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