"We didn't ask them to speak like us," she added. "We asked them to listen." www.bbc.com/news/article...
CJP: India's 'cockroach' protest brings Gen Z slang to parliamentFrom "delulu" to "FOMO", Gen Z slang has made an unlikely journey from Instagram to parliament.www.bbc.com"We are building a global network of 100 museum spaces in 100 cities, underpinned by digital platform and formal learning engagement, to create that public understanding of humanity as fast as we possibly can" worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/infrast...
Infrastructures for understanding: An interview with Kristin Alford - World Peace FoundationPeace as practice: Futurist Kristin Alford on hope, agency, civic infrastructure, and building the skills needed for a more peaceful future.worldpeacefoundation.orgKenya is not choosing between Washington & Beijing. It is building relationships with both while expanding ties with Europe, the Gulf, India & its African neighbours. This emerging approach might best be understood as portfolio diplomacy africanarguments.org/2026/07/port...
Portfolio Diplomacy: Rethinking African Economic Statecraft in a Multipolar World | African ArgumentsKenya has not out-invested its rivals. It has out-diversified them. A look at "portfolio diplomacy" and what it reveals about African economic statecraft.africanarguments.org"This contrasts with the global perception that zero-waste and refill shops cater only to the affluent" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Soy sauce refills and reused jars: can Philippines’ tingi culture hold back deluge of plastic waste?A zero-waste shop set up by a district council provides plastic-free products at affordable prices in a country that gets through 164m sachets a daywww.theguardian.comA lost container can become a mass experiment that no research program would deliberately stage, sending thousands of objects into the ocean at once and allowing their eventual landfalls to chart the hidden pathways of currents across the globe thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-shipping...
How Shipping Container Disasters Became a Scientific GoldmineOceanographers have quietly used lost cargo to build the most precise maps of ocean currents ever created.thereader.mitpress.mit.edu"Moving from an average manager with no invention experience to a highly experienced manager approximately doubles workers' patented inventions within four years" conference.nber.org/conf_papers/...
The map showed Nigeria as landlocked in the Sahara desert. Mozambique, which is in south-eastern Africa, was relocated to the Horn of Africa, while Côte d’Ivoire in west Africa was placed on the other side of the continent www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceState department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazilwww.theguardian.comMedieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-no...
Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant KnowledgeCenturies before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in The Matrix, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne ...publicdomainreview.orgThe artificial intelligence boom has created a new marketplace in China where people can rent out their faces restofworld.org/2026/china-a...
In China, people are renting out their faces to AINew platforms are paying people to license their likeness for AI-generated dramas and ads, creating a new marketplace for biometric identity.restofworld.org"Players are immersed in a post-apocalyptic world shaped by a single catastrophic event — the Day of Division. In this imagined future, society has broken into closed, dogmatic factions, each clinging to its own version of truth, community, and survival" ididntrealiseyouthoughtlikethat.com
The DelusionAn interactive experience by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. Who do you let through the door? Commissioned by Serpentine Arts Technologies. Made possible by Glass Castle Foundation.ididntrealiseyouthoughtlikethat.comWe examined how 3 different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows. We found that there is no single story. The way technology is used appears to reflect the funding, values, and mission of each outlet www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/how-...
How three newsrooms are charting different paths for AI useIn our recent research, we examined how three different media outlets — Reuters, the BBC, and The Guardian — were deploying AI in their workflows.www.niemanlab.orgBuild a portfolio, not a wishlist www.undp.org/armenia/blog...
What if the project is not the point?Cities rarely move in straight lines. A tourism problem is also a skills problem, a public-service problem, a business-confidence problem and often a community-belief problem. A weak local economy is rarely only about investment; it is also shaped by institutions, trust, identity, infrastructure and the ability of people to imagine a future where they are. This is particularly true for smaller cities. Their challenges are often described in simple terms: too few visitors, too few jobs, too few services, too little money. Beneath these shortages, however, usually sits in a more complex system of relationships, habits, assumptions and missed connections. Aparan, Goris and Noyemberyan began their mission-oriented journey from different starting points. Aparan looked at how tourism could become more equitable and economically meaningful. Goris explored how cultural tourism could become more innovative and better connected to local life. Noyemberyan asked how it could become more than a place people pass through on the way somewhere else. Different cities and different ambitions, yet their experience points to one shared lesson: local transformation does not begin with a project, but with a municipality learning to see differently.www.undp.orgYoung Africans lack neither ambition nor competence. What they lack is a structured pathway that can be funded over time — not another elite fellowship for 20 winners a year www.devex.com/news/without...
Without US aid, Africa must rethink how it funds leadersOpinion: Aid cuts are forcing a choice — keep funding isolated fellowships, or invest in platforms that can train decision-makers at scale.www.devex.comAI is advancing everywhere except where society needs it most, despite a decade of articulated public priorities and ‘AI for good’ research. This misalignment is a consequence of how the innovation system is currently organised academic.oup.com/spp/advance-...
Mind the gap: connecting AI innovation to widespread public valueAbstract. Public dialogues have produced clear demand signals for AI. These dialogues imagine innovations that improve our shared wellbeing and prosperityacademic.oup.comAtlas of Spanish cities' heat vulnerability lab.300000.eu/calor/
The future of PA keeps changing, not only because the problems it is asked to solve keep changing, but perhaps even more so because it is a way to capture (perceived or hoped-or) changes in the human condition itself rainerkattel.substack.com/p/week-10-th...
WEEK 10: The Future of Public Administration Is Never Just About the FutureEvery era imagines the state in the language of its own anxieties.rainerkattel.substack.comThe Marnameh is a short text listing the thirty days of the Zoroastrian calendar and what the sighting of a snake on each portends publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...
“The Persian *Mâr-Nâmeh* or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.publicdomainreview.orgMost agencies measure ambition by what they build. SGPO offers a different model of ambition that when you know the ecosystem well enough, building rarely becomes necessary govinsider.asia/intl-en/arti...
Where does government-citizen partnership capability live? Not inside one officeThe Singapore Government Partnerships Office (SGPO)'s director Hasliza Ahmad her team is expanding the agency's reach by working closely with stakeholders, so that the agency isn't the only one that's...govinsider.asiaWhat do people really eat? New global database gives best answer yet phys.org/news/2026-07...
What do people really eat? New global database gives best answer yetA major new resource that provides one of the most comprehensive pictures yet of what people are eating around the world has been introduced in a new study by a UCL and University of Oxford researcher...phys.orgThe constant stream of self-help in Accra tells of a population proactive in seeking and creating chances for a brighter future blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...
Accra’s self-help culture conveys visions of a transformed Ghana - Africa at LSEThe prevalence of self-help media in Ghana’s capital city is a sign of popular discontent with stifling economic uncertainty. But it is also a symbol of citizens' proactive pursuit of prosperity amid ...blogs.lse.ac.uk