Duncan Green unpacks last week’s ICJ ruling on climate change obligations, using the ‘how change happens’ methodology he developed at Oxfam to look at how the agency of individuals (including some her...

Confronting the production-progress paradox

Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC ) is a research centre on resilience and sustainability science at Stockholm University. The Centre advances the scientific understanding of the complex, dynamic inter

Researchers across Africa, Asia and the Middle East are building their own language models designed for local tongues, cultural nuance and digital independence

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From building local language datasets to creating multilingual models, here are just a few of the standout open-source community projects pushing African NLP forward.

As American hegemony unravels, the Global South must resist both nostalgia and passivity. Multipolarity won’t arrive on its own—it must be built through struggle.

In collaboration with The Asia Foundation and the University of Pretoria, this white paper maps the LLM development landscape for low-resource languages, highlighting challenges, trade-offs, and strat...

Search Africa for examples of infrastructure initiatives that serve society and the environment, and share your case studies to inspire others

Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed * ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? * The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests. Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say. Continue reading...

Three years in the making, the accord aims to increase equity and avoid errors of the COVID-19 pandemic

In a small lab at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Morogoro, Tanzania, artificial intelligence is doing something unexpected—it’s not just solving problems, it’s changing lives.

The IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat to the climate was ‘overstated’

Nvidia and Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa join hands to bring supercomputer technology to the continent.

Save the date! SocSES is Launching! We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Social-Ecological Systems Society (SocSES). Join us to celebrate and learn abo

This brochure synthesizes experiences from practitioners around the world who will convene at the Istanbul Innovation Days 2025 into a resource that can help teams have a conversation about strategy a...