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COMMONWEALTH BLOG - Issues, Insights, & Innovation
Upcoming Commonwealth Virtual Events
Webinar Series: Youth - Taking Charge of our Future Rule of Law - during COVID-19 Blue Charter - collaboration ... Previous events
RCS Ottawa
Sep 21, 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...
Social Progress
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...
Quartz
Sep 20, 2020
The Global Economy Will Never Be the Same
The Pandemic Depression.
Foreign Affairs
Sep 20, 2020


RCSO message on Queen's Birthday
Your Majesty, Every April 21st gives us an opportunity to celebrate your birthday and reflect on your contributions, as a young girl,...
RCS Ottawa
Apr 21, 2020
Populism and the Decline of Social Democracy
Democracy may be receding somewhat in practice, but it is still globally ascendant in peoples’ values and aspirations. Despite the...
Journal of Democracy
Dec 31, 2019
One-day deliveries are breaking our cities
In New York City, 1.5 million packages are delivered daily to people’s doorsteps—three times as many as in the beginning of the decade. ...
Fast Company
Dec 30, 2019
Polarization versus Democracy
Democratic breakdowns almost always come in one of two, very different forms: executive takeovers and military coups. The rise in...
Journal of Democracy
Dec 29, 2019
Queen Elizabeth's Christmas Message
In 2019, HRH's call for unity, continued to share the message that urges Commonwealth & global citizens to take small steps in "the true...
RCS Ottawa
Dec 25, 2019
Africa's future is innovation rather than industrialization
World Economic Forum has just launched the Africa Growth Platform, an initiative aimed at helping startup enterprises grow and compete...
World Economic Forum
Dec 17, 2019
Research: How Technology Could Promote Growth in 6 African Countries
Africa is closely watched as the next big growth market – a description that has persisted for a while. There are many reasons for...
Harvard Business Review
Dec 17, 2019
Making Democracy Work Again
The use of social media to distribute disinformation has opened up vast social divisions and brought democracy to its knees. What has...
Wired
Dec 1, 2019


2020 Commonwealth Youth Forum
The future of the Commonwealth depends on its one billion young people. The Commonwealth Youth Forum (CYF) is organised as part of the...
RCS Ottawa
Oct 16, 2019
2020 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)
Rwanda will host the next CHOGM starting June 22. The theme is ‘Delivering A Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming’. Five...
RCS Ottawa
Oct 4, 2019
We need both Individual and collective action to fight climate change
This article discusses how neoliberalism policies have hamstrung our ability to put a check on corporate power and plan our collective...
The Guardian
Oct 1, 2019
Apathy is Boring.com
Works to educate and engage Canadian youth about democracy and getting the vote out. It has resources on: Disinformation; Abacus data on...
RCS Ottawa
Oct 1, 2019
Canadian political party election platforms
If you are concerned about climate and environmental action, this is a non-partisan summary of the climate and environmental action...
RCS Ottawa
Aug 30, 2019
Applying physics theory to understand extremism and online hate
There’s a closed network of about 1,000 clusters, worldwide, online, across all platforms, propagating global hate of all flavors. Read...
The Guardian
Aug 30, 2019
A guide to actions that governments are taking to counter misinformation.
Further to the European Commission high-level group report on misinformation, here's where governments are taking action against online...
Poynter Institute
Aug 30, 2019
Brand safety should mean knowing your ads aren’t on domains that disinform.
Unfortunately that is not the case today for most brands. GDI estimate that ad exchanges pay US$235 million each year to disinformation...
GDI
Aug 30, 2019
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