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This blog post first appeared on The Freedom Fund’s blog on February 5, 2018. Click here for the original. The scourge of modern slavery entrapping over 40 million people around the world [...]

There are 40.3 million modern day slaves in the world today, more than there have even been in the history of humanity. However, they remain largely invisible, hidden in places of forced work, [...]

This blog post first appeared on the ICT Works blog on December 21, 2015. Click here for the original. With the landmark UN Sustainable Development Summit over, the discussion is now shifting to [...]

Robert Solow, economist at MIT and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1987, once famously noted that one “can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Today, a similar [...]

An ever-increasing number of companies use “pulse surveys” – frequent, real-time staff polls powered by digital technology – to gauge how happy and engaged their employees are. Reconfiguring [...]

Technology innovation that allows for rapid and repeatable collection of aerial image and sensor data, such as drones and micro-satellites, is rapidly opening opportunities for more systematic [...]

Earlier this year, the Mongolian prime minister initiated an SMS poll to solicit feedback from citizens on how they though the government should stabilize the tugruk, the Mongolian currency. The [...]

Cornelius Graubner, February 24, 2014 A series of costly failures in major oil, gas and mining projects have led to a re-evaluation of risk assessments in the international mining community, and [...]

Antoine Heuty and Cornelius Graubner, January 15, 2014 Over the past ten years, a growing number of philanthropies, think tanks, civil society and grassroots organization have pushed companies to [...]