Policy Horizons’ Director General, Kristel Van der Elst, explores significant areas of change, and how the potential outcomes of those changes may alter our strategic landscape and systems.
This video tackles the future of social connection along with three changes and their policy implications: The automation of social connections, our real connections in virtual worlds, and the deepening of social surveillance.
On March 25 2020, Uniper Care Technologies (a telehealth and social engagement company) launched their new cross-platform service connecting isolated populations with others through smartphones, tablets, computers or even a TV set.
How are our sense-making processes evolving? Here are four changes that affect the way in which we think, make decisions and behave.
In a January 2020 article, scientists demonstrated that the protein sestrin is responsible for many of the physiological benefits of exercise.
In late 2019, a U.S.-based dating platform launched a speed-date video chat feature to avoid “bad first dates” by allowing matched users to have a two-minute video chat as a digital first date.
In July 2019, Lyft and the Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired at the Media and Accessible Design Lab in San Francisco joined forces to develop a Braille guide explaining how autonomous vehicles work, ...
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A broad consensus on citizenship – who deserves it and the rights and responsibilities it entails – is a mainstay of democracy. This shared status promotes a point of identification that transcends regional and/or cultural ...
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