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COMMONWEALTH BLOG - Issues, Insights, & Innovation
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
Climate change could make insurance unaffordable.
Insurers have warned that climate change could make coverage for ordinary people unaffordable after the world’s largest reinsurance firm...
The Guardian
Dec 29, 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
Technology is a liberating force for African women
As ride-hailing apps proliferate the globe, the year-old An Nisa Taxi in Kenya is one of the standouts in Africa. Developed by...
UN.org
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
Big Tech goes to Africa
The visit of Twitter founder/chief executive Jack Dorsey to Nigeria, Ghana and Ethiopia last month seemed like a watershed moment when it...
Quartz
Dec 17, 2019
Job automation could help us fight climate change
The fourth industrial revolution has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide unprecedented levels of...
Quartz
Oct 31, 2019
Global warming causing Pacific salmon decline
The DFO report notes that an unusually warm patch of water in the Pacific Ocean — called the “blob” — that persisted from 2013 to 2017...
DFO
Oct 31, 2019
Concrete and CO2 emission innovation
Cement is responsible for 7% of global man-made greenhouse emissions, making it the world's second largest industrial source of carbon...
CNN
Oct 31, 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 3, 2019
Transforming markets
Redesigning economic models for sustainable development. View World Economic Forum video ...
World Economic Forum
Sep 30, 2019
What is the Forth Industrial Revolution?
The evidence of dramatic change is all around us and it’s happening at exponential speed. View World Economic Forum video ...
World Economic Forum
Sep 30, 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
Sep 30, 2019
Futile corporate gestures can distract from actions that can make a difference
A conversation with an MIT professor about having an impact on climate change. "Removing mini-shampoos from hotel rooms won’t save the...
Quartz
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
How a Ghanaian entrepreneur uses recycled plastic to make cheaper roads and building blocks
Ghana may be the world’s fastest-growing economy this year, but its biggest city, Accra, is struggling to get on top of its garbage...
Quartz
Aug 30, 2019


The #Commonwealth will assist the East African Community
The #Commonwealth will assist the East African Community (#EAC) in implementing the authorised economic operator programme, which will...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 12, 2019
Modern history is no longer on the side of Western liberalism.
The liberal tradition that affirms human freedom and dignity against the forces of autocracy, reactionary conservatism and social...
Bloomberg
Jul 27, 2019
Rise of the robots
Up to 20 million manufacturing jobs around the world could be replaced by robots by 2030, according to analysis firm Oxford Economics....
BBC
Jul 26, 2019
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