Co-authored & co-hosted with Stina Heikkilä Remember back in December 2019 when the international climate negotiations floundered in Madrid, and it seemed like all the progress made since the Paris Agreement was backsliding? It’s hard to locate any point in time before COVID19, but this is our starting point: Coming…

Getting back our digital privacy is not going to be easy. Knowing about the risks is one thing. Behaviour change is a whole other thing. For many years I was half-asleep and half-awake. I would never argue back if someone said: “But I don’t care. I have nothing to hide.”…

A transition is a special moment, a journey from the known to the unknown, from the old way to the new way, from the past to the future. One of the best things about any transition is the potential it holds for growth and change. And the best way to…

Central banks. How the world’s most powerful & under-scrutinized club became climate advocates Elitist, powerful, mysterious, highly technocratic, central bankers operate mostly under the radar, and until the financial crisis of 2008 they were mostly invisible to the general public. Since the 1930s, their mandate has been to stabilize financial markets and avoid cascading bankruptcies and depression. …

Planning a trip from Europe to Australia or New Zealand always involves a killer decision about whether or not to break up the trip somewhere, and if so where, how much to spend, and what to do with your time. On a recent trip to Melbourne, I stopped in Hong…

“… It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way.” — Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities — In a popular TED talk about the transformative power of classical music, Benjamin Zander, director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, tells a story of two salesmen who went to Africa in the 1900s to research the market for shoes.

2017 was a big year for AI — the year it went fully mainstream as a topic of public debate. We sat down with Anita Schjøll Bred, co-founder of Iris.Ai, …

At the end of a dark year, a remarkable community of people from diverse sectors gathered in Paris earlier this month at the Open Government Partnership Summit. …

We have witnessed a monumental context shift in the past week. The idea of context disruption is highly topical amongst social media theorists and information architects. Their ideas suddenly seem relevant for millions of people around the world today trying to make sense of a Trump presidency. The basic idea…