Tag: Technologies

Technologies and religions at the risk of paradoxes (by Marco Emanuele)

Paradoxes generate risks. If we are in a global and globalized society (very different adjectives in terms of meaning), logic would like everyone to...

Cities/Technologies/Climate Change. Are Energy Clocks the Smart Way to Make Cities Cleaner? (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)

Olamide Oguntoye Cities trying to go cleaner by cutting emissions often find smart technologies –despite their huge potential benefits – challenging to implement and...

Productivity Growth/Technologies – How to solve the puzzle of missing productivity growth (Brookings)

Erik Brynjolfsson, Seth G. Benzell, and Daniel Rock Despite the economic damage wrought by the novel coronavirus over the past year, an analysis published by The Economist in December...

(Innovation/Technology) Fear and loathing of cryptocurrencies (ORF)

SHASHIDHAR K.J., SRINATH SRIDHARAN Governments must realise that cryptocurrencies were created as a reaction to neoliberal policies and wholly strive to understand how the state can...

(Technologies) Robot census: Gathering data to improve policymaking on new technologies (Brookings)

Robert Seamans https://www.brookings.edu/research/robot-census-gathering-data-to-improve-policymaking-on-new-technologies/

SOUTHEAST ASIA – Retooling Democratic Good Governance (Coby Goldberg and Kristine Lee, CNAS)

Online and offline, illiberal governance technologies are proliferating across Southeast Asia. From the strained democracies of Indonesia and the Philippines to the one-party electoral...