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COVID19 – We can’t let the pandemic derail progress for disabled people (Susannah Rodgers, WEF)

Powering ahead: The author Susannah Rodgers competing at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. Image: Action Images COVID-19 has been devastating for disabled people who face...

COVID19 – ‘A game changer’ – Austria’s Sebastian Kurz and other leaders on COVID vaccines (Christopher Alessi, WEF)

Austria's Sebastian Kurz spoke at the Forum's Great Reset Dialogues on 2 December. Image: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner "Vaccination is the game changer. It’s difficult to plan the...

COVID19 – Disarming Vaccine Disinformation (CFR)

Panelists discuss COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and disinformation campaigns and tactics to disrupt and disarm them. Speakers Imran Ahmed Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Center for Countering Digital Hate Tara...

USA – Trump and Section 230: What to Know (Anshu Siripurapu, CFR)

President Trump has threatened to veto a major defense funding bill over a law that protects social media companies from liability for what their...

ARAB SPRING – The Arab Spring at Ten Years: What’s the Legacy of the Uprisings? (Kali Robinson, CFR)

Ten years on, the lives of people in Arab Spring countries have improved in certain aspects but worsened in others. CFR.org visualizes the changes...

USA – What to expect from a Biden FCC on Section 230, net neutrality, and 5G (Darrell M. West, Nicol Turner Lee, and Caitlin...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/12/03/what-to-expect-from-a-biden-fcc-on-section-230-net-neutrality-and-5g/

US Supply Chains – How to build more secure, resilient, next-gen U.S. supply chains (Eleftherios Iakovou and Chelsea C. White III, Brookings)

Tens of thousands of medical supply packages are sorted daily for regional and international shipping from the DHL Supply Chain facility in Southaven, Mississippi,...

DEMOCRACY – The West must live up to its own principles on democracy (Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/03/the-west-must-live-up-to-its-own-principles-on-democracy/

USA – There are too many ways to lose unemployment compensation (Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, and Stephanie Lu, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/12/03/there-are-too-many-ways-to-lose-unemployment-compensation/

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