Please take a moment to read the newly released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, "Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability." It's a frightening look at the future of our planet, based on the collective volunteer work of dozens of top scientists across fields synthesizing the findings of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific articles.
Paula Caballero Gomez is a driving force behind the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals. We spoke with her about why these represent a truly global effort, and how scientists can contribute to their success.
On the environmental-threat-level scale, climate change clearly poses the gravest long-term risk. But in the shorter term? That would surely be air pollution. Millions of people are dying from air pollution already.
The world of art needs more social enterprise and the world of social enterprise needs more art. With a foot firmly planted in both camps, it strikes me that both of these fields have only scratched the surface of how engaging with the other could lead to game-changing or even world-changing breakthroughs.
In Washington, D.C., a number of U.S. Government agencies and think tanks have been preparing for the forthcoming Mexico High-Level Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation.
Global Pulse is an innovation initiative launched by the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, in response to the need for more timely information to track and monitor the impacts of global and local socio-economic crises.
In our next post in our four-part series on “big data”, we talk to Stew Langille of Visual.ly. If you have ever admired or dissected an infographic, chances are it has been part of the Visual.ly collection. We at Daily Development have the site bookmarked!
Stew saw an opportunity in the explosion of “big data” to help tell stories. Given that big data is here to stay, we asked five questions about how to stand out of the data crowd.
There was a famous movie with a title based on an advertising campaign catchphrase: What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But what does this privacy catchphrase mean these days? Earlier this month, MIT co-hosted with the US Government a workshop on big data and how to keep it private. Andy Oram, of O’Reilly Media, wrote a piece for Forbes about the conference and the context behind it.