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All during 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic swept around the world, another novel virus with devastating...
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While the coronavirus pandemic is ravaging around the globe, we will continue to experience unprecedented...
Discrimination and violence against Brazil's LGBTQ communities are widespread, yet often underreported
Ilona Szabó is competing for the Think Tanker of the Year prize
Louise Marie Hurel contributed with a chapter on cyber-security governance in Brazil.
At 8:45 pm, five gunmen stormed the Holey Artisan Bakery, an upscale establishment in Dhaka, the capital...
Digital misinformation not only threatens Brazil’s 2020 municipal elections, it undermines democracy
Many Brazilians were worried by the torrent of disinformation on social networks during this year’s bitterly...
Cities are the crucible of our civilisations
Central Asia was long a digital backwater
Brazilians are preparing nervously for their own municipal elections on November 15
This is the startling observation made by authors Ian Goldin and Robert Muggah in the introduction to...
Maps are not just informative, they are empowering. They can help provide a new perspective to age-old...
Around the world, responses to the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic are understandably...
At the sharp end of the wedge, cross-boundary bodies like the Igarapé Institute, with the cooperation...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a profoundly urban crisis. The vast majority of the millions of reported cases...
This article is part of a series in which leading experts reflect on emerging trends for cities seeking...
One of the first countries to register a Covid-19 outbreak, South Korea, flattened the curve in stunning...
JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, is turning to blockchain to ensure the traceability of the tens...
At the United Nations, the world’s longest Zoom meeting is underway as presidents and prime ministers...
The world's longest Zoom call is underway at the United Nations General Assembly today.
The digital economy has finally arrived.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration’s record protecting the Amazon rainforest,...
Even before the tumultuous arrival of COVID-19, many parts of the world were suffering from dangerous...
Around the world, COVID-19 is accelerating polarization and division.
We can give people a better sense of what's happening around them at a time of extreme confusion and...
Robert Muggah (apparently an old Scottish name, though he is Canadian) has set up two think-tanks in...
Recent political developments in the United States are threatening internet freedom and cybersecurity...
Related concern about state brutality also propels two expert advocates up the list: Ilona Szabó de Carvalho...
Robert Muggah, co-founder of Brazil-based security and development think tank Igarape Institute, said...
The Amazon Basin is approaching a dangerous tipping point.
“This includes shining a light not just on crime groups and shady business but also the corrupt government...
As we show in our new book Terra Incognita, COVID-19 is exacerbating multiple forms of inequality within...
Brazil, a country in the world’s top 10 in population and GDP, is in the midst of three destructive crises.
Welcome to the 2020 Virtual Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development 'Sustaining Peace in the Time of...
EarthTime, the innovative data visualization technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE...
Muggah, who runs a think-tank working on data-driven justice across Latin America called Igarapé Institute,...
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The world has learned much about the devastating impact of COVID-19 on human health and well-being. It...
During the first half of 2020 when more than two-thirds of the world’s population was in lockdown, many...
What remains of the global, open internet came under attack this month.
The U.S.-China dispute just took a dangerous turn. Late last week, the U.S. government issued three separate...
As explained in my new book with Ian Goldin – Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years...
On July 7, Jair Bolsonaro, president of the world’s second hardest-hit country by COVID-19, announced...
This week, PS talks with Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the SecDev Group and the Igarapé Institute.
A week before the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis in May, Brazilians were mourning...
As consensus was finally achieved on July 7, a final draft of the UN-75 political declaration has been...
On multiple fronts, data-driven policymaking has informed and improved Latin America’s response to COVID-19...
This study considers the trajectories of armed conflict in a 'business-as-usual' scenario between 2020-2030.
The only surprise about Jair Bolsonaro's diagnosis for COVID-19 was that it took him so long to test...
Across the United States, the debate over the future of policing is gathering steam.
Political analyst Robert Muggah says Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro's positive COVID-19 test may spell...