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Getting Ahead Collectively in a Post-Industrial Economy
“Recent studies by cooperative development organizations have identified several areas that must be addressed for growth to continue: finance, human capital, business support, and culture. This study extends those findings through literature review, institutional analysis, and interviews with key actors in the US worker coop ecosystem” (Oakes 2020).
We the People, in Order to Defeat the Coronavirus
“There are times when government must curtail individual freedoms to protect the public. But those measures must end once the threat passes” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
In A Crisis, True Leaders Stand Out
“Leadership may be hard to define, but in times of crisis it is easy to identify. As the pandemic has spread fear, disease and death, national leaders across the globe have been severely tested...the master class on how to respond belongs to Jacinda Ardern, the 39-year-old prime minister of New Zealand” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
Satya Nadella: crisis requires co-ordinated digital response
"Society’s deepest concerns are rooted right now in two connected questions: how do we protect public health and how can we promote an economic recovery that is inclusive? A third question is becoming more important…: how do we preserve the privacy and cyber security needed for trustworthy computing?" (Nadella, 2020)
Enabling Media Markets to Work for Democracy
“This study outlines the case for, and the practical feasibility of establishing, a new International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM)” which would “ focus mainly on resource-poor settings across the world where the economic and political challenges confronting independent media have become overwhelming” (Luminate, 2020).
Coronavirus has revealed the EU's fatal flaw: the lack of solidarity
"In a recent interview, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, laid out how European leaders had a rendezvous with history and needed to come together... By all measures, this rendezvous with history was missed. European leaders in effect agreed to keep calm and carry on." (Vallee, 2020)
Authoritarians Are Exploiting the Coronavirus. Democracies Must Not Follow Suit.
"Democracies are far more effective at combating national crises, but that hasn’t stopped despots across the world from trying to tighten their grip." (Smith and Cheesman, 2020)
Despotism and Democracy in the Age of the Virus
“The first major crisis of the post-American world is ugly and is going to get worse. A pandemic required a pan-planet reaction. Instead it found Pangloss in the White House blowing smoke and insisting, as disaster loomed, that it was still the best of all possible worlds in America” (Roger Cohen, 2020).
Bill Gates on How to Fight Future Pandemics
"The coronavirus will hasten three big medical breakthroughs. That is just a start… When historians write the book on the covid-19 pandemic, what we’ve lived through so far will probably take up only the first third or so. The bulk of the story will be what happens next." (Gates, 2020)
Pandemic Propaganda is Coming. Be Ready for It
Ahead of the 2020 election, “American voters will be adrift in a fog of disinformation, uncertain whether to believe anything they read or hear. As a result, there is likely to be an even more fractured electorate shaping American society for the next four years, and perhaps well beyond” (Vera Zakem, 2020).
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