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COMMONWEALTH BLOG - Issues, Insights, & Innovation
@commonwealthsec
Mar 24, 2019
#ConnectedCommonwealth
The #Commonwealth is one of the world’s oldest political association of states, compromising of 53 independent and equal sovereign...
@commonwealthsec
Mar 8, 2019
Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
The #Commonwealth Secretariat works to advance #genderequality, #women’s rights and #womensempowerment in all social, economic and...
RCS Ottawa
Mar 4, 2019
Commonwealth Interfaith Service - Ottawa, Sunday 10 Mar 4-5pm
Ottawa's 2019 Commonwealth Interfaith Service - "celebrating a diverse and inclusive Commonwealth" will be held from 4pm -5pm on March...
World Bank
Mar 4, 2019
How laws affect women throughout their working lives
This World Bank report looks at how women’s employment and entrepreneurship are affected by legal discrimination. See which 6 countries...
Quartz
Mar 4, 2019
Mental Health - The doctor is online
As the number of people who suffer from mental illness has risen starkly, virtual therapy might be a way to bring the benefits of talk...
NY Times
Mar 4, 2019
Silicon Valley Nannies Are Phone Police for Kids
From Cupertino to San Francisco, a growing consensus has emerged that screen time is bad for kids. It follows that these parents are now...
Quartz
Mar 4, 2019
Seismic shift in kids’ media use to mobile
“These devices are shaping everything. This has profound implications for families everywhere, from how we relate to each other and...
NY Books
Mar 4, 2019
‘There’s One Humanity or There Isn’t’
A conversation about Africa with Nigeria's Noble Prize winning writer Wole Soyinka. Read more
GSMA
Mar 4, 2019
Connected Women
Ending the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle income countries could add $700 billion or 0.7% in GDP growth in these countries...
Quartz
Mar 4, 2019
The advent of AI should push us to think harder of what makes us human
We’re scared that human jobs will be replaced by robots. But we’re still teaching kids to think like machines. Change the test, and...
Wall Street Journal
Mar 3, 2019
The End of Employees
Never before have big employers tried so hard to hand over chunks of their business to contractors. From Google to Wal-Mart, the strategy...
@queenscomtrust
Mar 2, 2019
@WEMovement WE Day UK
Excited to share the news that The Duke of Sussex will attend @WEMovement WE Day UK in London next week in his capacity as President of...
@theroyaleditor
Mar 2, 2019
Top Secret
Her Majesty The Queen will visit the Science Museum in London on 7th March to announce its summer exhibition, "Top Secret", and unveil a...
@queenscomtrust
Feb 26, 2019
Incredible work from @KidsVplastic
Incredible work from @KidsVplastic - this is amazing! 65,890 pieces of single-use plastic picked up to-date. It's been abt 3 years...
The Atlantic
Feb 26, 2019
“The city as growth machine.”
As residents of the biggest winners of the city lottery — San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Denver, Washington, D.C.— have found, a rich...
@KensingtonRoyal
Feb 26, 2019
Royal Army Chaplains’ Department 100th
Today The Queen marked the 100th anniversary of the granting of the “Royal” prefix to The Royal Army Chaplains’ Department — where she...
@CWGC
Feb 23, 2019
#WeAreCWGC #Jobs
Looking for a new challenge? We have a number of exciting job opportunities currently open at different @CWGC locations around the world....
@CWGC
Feb 16, 2019
@CWGC cemetery damage
RT @HemaJaradah: Staff of #Gaza Strip doing the necessary maintenance works at the @CWGC Deir El-Belah #Egyptian cemetery, after damage...
Bloomberg
Feb 13, 2019
Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
Finland, the first country in the world to trial a basic income at a national level, found that distributing free money to the unemployed...
MIT Tech Review
Feb 13, 2019
Self-driving cars could make city congestion worse
If you think traffic in cities is bad now, just wait until autonomous vehicles arrive, cruising around to avoid paying pricey parking...
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