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, telling the United Nations’ virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain. Bolsonaro’s critics were quick to pick apart his claims.
Even before the tumultuous arrival of COVID-19, many parts of the world were suffering from dangerous polarization and division.
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 a motivation to act. Because ultimately, the future is what we make it, says ‘Terra Incognita’ co-author Dr Robert Muggah.
Robert Muggah (apparently an old Scottish name, though he is Canadian) has set up two think-tanks in Brazil, where he is based: the SecDev Group focuses on the digital economy and cybersecurity.
Recent political developments in the United States are threatening internet freedom and cybersecurity across Latin America.
Related concern about state brutality also propels two expert advocates up the list: Ilona Szabó de Carvalho (5th), who set up the internationally-influential Igarapé Institute, which champions citizen-led security, and the American prison abolitionist
Robert Muggah, co-founder of Brazil-based security and development think tank Igarape Institute, said that while Monday’s operation will “sting,” it is “unlikely to make a major dent on the PCC” given the organization’s vast size, hierarchy and deep roots in the country’s prison system.
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 officials – including police, notary clerks, customs officials, and politicians – who facilitate the business,” Szabó said in an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
As we show in our new book Terra Incognita, COVID-19 is exacerbating multiple forms of inequality within and between countries and cities, and raising fundamental questions about the future of urban living.
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 COVID-19’. The open session ‘Strategic Dialogue on Global Trends: Violence and the Coronavirus’, in partnership with the Global Registry of Violent Deaths (GReVD) Consortium.
EarthTime, the innovative data visualization technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab, takes center stage in a new book addressing some of the greatest challenges facing mankind.
Muggah, who runs a think-tank working on data-driven justice across Latin America called Igarapé Institute, says that Colombia’s sky-high rate of homicide made it not just difficult to differentiate the victims of serial killers from all the other victims, but it made it incredibly hard for the police to investigate, much less prosecute perpetrators.
The world has learned much about the devastating impact of COVID-19 on human health and well-being. It is also waking up to the pandemic’s positive effects on the planet’s atmosphere, ecosystems, and biodiversity.
During the first half of 2020 when more than two-thirds of the world’s population was in lockdown, many of us were transfixed by a map.
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 measures – two executive orders imposing sanctions on social-media networks WeChat and TikTok, and another to set up a “clean network” program – that, come mid-September, would prohibit any U.S. citizen or company from conducting business with those apps’ Chinese parent companies, Tencent and ByteDance respectively.
As explained in my new book with Ian Goldin – Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years – maps can help make sense of the world around us.
On July 7, Jair Bolsonaro, president of the world’s second hardest-hit country by COVID-19, announced he had tested positive for coronavirus and had mild symptoms. Shortly afterwards, he removed his mask to show everyone he was ok.
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 one of their own.
As consensus was finally achieved on July 7, a final draft of the UN-75 political declaration has been approved and is expected to be adopted by world leaders on Sept. 21 at United Nations headquarters through virtual means.
On multiple fronts, data-driven policymaking has informed and improved Latin America’s response to COVID-19 – from information about the availability of hospital beds and ventilators to economic measurements to help direct relief packages for businesses and workers.
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 positive.
Across the United States, the debate over the future of policing is gathering steam.
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