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Shipping containers are seen stacked at Beirut’s port, during a countrywide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beirut, Lebanon, April 8, 2020. Image: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir Holed-up at home on a Wednesday afternoon two weeks ago, I found it comforting to track my teenage daughter’s plane…

The Europas Awards for European Tech Startups is doing what everyone in tech has done before: pivoting! Given the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be ‘going virtual’ on an amazing new platform, to be unveiled. (OK, but not VR – just yet!). A percentage of proceeds from the event will be…

inflectiotn.point Heather E McGowan “Most of us can remember who we were 10 years ago, but we find it hard to imagine who we’re going to be, and then we mistakenly think that because it’s hard to imagine, it’s not likely to happen.”  - Dan Gilbert, TED Talk 2014 On September 10, 2001,…

The arrogance and brutality of the ruling class – is nothing less than breathtaking. Let’s begin. April 9 2020, Business Insider: “Many Americans will not have jobs to return to after the coronavirus pandemic ends, according to former US presidential candidate Andrew Yang”: “Many Americans will not have jobs to…

Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) are nowadays widely seen as a solution to address systemic cybersecurity challenges. Are such initiatives delivering the desired result and if not, what can be done to improve their performance?  The WEF Global Risk Report 2020 highlights how ‘unless stakeholders adapt multilateral mechanisms for this turbulent period,…

A Forbes Insights survey commissioned by Fortinet uncovered that CISOs are looking for more talent and need better training for employees. Fortinet, a broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced increased global growth of its Network Security Experts (NSE) Institute comprised of the NSE Certification program, Fortinet Network Security…

The pandemic poses impossible dilemmas for shelters along migration routes. Chihuahua State Police give out hand sanitizer to migrants on April 6 at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua, Mexico. Paul Ratje/Agence France-Presse/AFP via Getty Images Late last month, a group of migrants in an…

Pierre Nkurunziza, president of Burundi, captured during the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, June 4, 2008. Photo by Eric Miller/WEF via CC BY 2.0. Check out Global Voices’ special coverage of the global impact of COVID-19. The election in Burundi, set…

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What will be next? Is a question on many people’s minds. Very likely the world will never be the same again. That might be good, or not so good, depending on how we look at this disastrous, “pandemic” which by all serious accounts does not deserve the term “pandemic”, that…