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In December 2014, the cover of Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” issue featured Salome Karwah, a nursing assistant who not only survived the Ebola epidemic in her native Liberia that year, but also helped waves of patients arriving at her Ebola ward. Karwah was a hero who met a tragic end. One year ago, she died from complications in childbirth, a killer that every month takes twice as many lives as the entire Ebola epidemic

The 11th Digital Innovators' Summit was determined by firm publishing responses to media shift. The event was organized by VDZ and World Association FIPP for more than 500 international digital media experts to discuss international topics, trends and case studies on digital transformation

Around the world, some 250 million children are unable to attend school, and many who do have access to a classroom are not learning the skills they need to succeed in life. And, despite a growing consensus about the systemic nature of the challenges affecting education, there is less agreement about how address those systemic challenges. Yet 2018 is shaping up to be a promising year for global efforts to improve educational access and quality

It’s been a tough week for Facebook. Thanks to reports in the New York Times and the Guardian’s whistleblower, it was revealed the $500 billion company allowed thousands of app developers to harvest data through third party online quizzes and games

The decade since the global financial crisis has been tumultuous, to say the least. True, no great war has erupted, and we have more or less avoided the mistakes of the Great Depression, which led in the 1930s to greater protectionism, bank failures, severe austerity, and a deflationary environment. But renewed market tensions indicate that these risks have not been eradicated so much as papered over

The last few years have been tumultuous, to say the least, and if leaders on the world stage have learned anything, it’s that reputation is a fragile thing

On March 8, the world celebrated International Women’s Day, an annual opportunity to recommit to gender equality. This year’s observance came at an important time for women’s rights, as global movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp are refocusing attention on the discriminatory practices that women confront in their social and professional lives

In her latest speech on Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May rejected the prospect of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union’s customs union, on the grounds that the UK wants its own trade policy. This is not in the best interest of either the UK or the EU