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How can refugees bring their stories to the world? Give them a camera
Migrants in Greece share their harrowing and human experiences through photos and film. "The Rezaeis are among dozens of refugees from across South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa who have learned photography and filmmaking through ReFOCUS Media Labs while waiting...
Building Responsible AI Solutions For Creating Societal Impact
Artificial intelligence is not just being used to solve business problems, but also to solve social challenges. Outlook: "In the past decade there has been a huge shift in how artificial intelligence has been adopted in a myriad of industries; trends have moved from...
“Don’t Look Up” Is More Than Your Standard Climate Cautionary Tale
"If you follow the public conversation around climate change, you have probably heard about Don’t Look Up. The Netflix disaster movie, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence as ignored scientists Randall Mindy and Kate Dibiasky, uses an impending comet...
International Migrants Day: Harnessing the Potential of Human Mobility
"A broad range of factors continue to determine the movement of people. They are either voluntary or forced movements as a result of the increased magnitude and frequency of disasters, economic challenges and extreme poverty or conflict. Approximately 281 million...
Mobile Film Festival awards: 1001 ways to ‘make peace with nature’
"The Jury for the 2021 Mobile Film Festival has announced the 12 winners of this year’s edition within the challenging theme 'Making Peace with Nature'. Three of the winners were from Iran and two from France..." Click to read...
What’s the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
“COP26 shined a light on the complexities of addressing the climate crisis. We asked Harvard Business School faculty members to discuss how business leaders can help spur change and what opportunities might emerge…”
Millennial Money: Sustain generosity beyond the holidays
"Technology can also play a role in helping you decide where to donate, says Wale Mafolasire, CEO of Givelify, a mobile app that facilitates donations to churches and nonprofits, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Givelify’s approach is similar to GlobalGiving’s funds....
The fight against climate change requires action not just words
“Implementation” will be the buzzword for the new year "It is traditional, After a major UN climate summit, for the momentum behind climate policy to enter a lull. It happens most noticeably in years after annual summits that had created a lot of pre-conference...
Support Global Warming
By Lance Gould "GLASGOW — 'It’s one minute to midnight,' warned UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the opening ceremony of COP 26, the UN-brokered climate summit in Glasgow held earlier this month. As host head of state, Johnson — hardly a champion of the environment...
As COP26 winds down, is a breakthrough climate agreement in sight?
"The international climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, is coming to a close, but several top officials said today that they are concerned that too many countries are not willing to make enough real commitments to reducing emissions. U.N. Secretary-General...