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AI can boost participation, but it can also facilitate manipulation and threaten democracies.

Artificial Intelligence

The future is still ours to shape

Humanity is entering a new reality. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will change our lives, but how – and who will be in charge.

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by Eva-Maria Verfürth

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Siltation

Stream-bank cultivation and gold panning add to the problems

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by Jeffrey Moyo
Jeffrey Moyo
View of Singapore’s Chinatown: in the background is a portion of the Pinnacle@Duxton housing complex, which was built by the state-run Housing Development Board.

Relevant reading

Singapore’s clever approach to public housing

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by Katja Dombrowski
Workshop for young refugees at a vocational school in Wunsiedel organised by Ahmad Mansour’s Mind Prevention initiative.

Deradicalisation

“Teaching democracy is just as important as teaching maths”

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by Ahmad Mansour
by Sabine Balk
Sabine Balk
Not all children have equal opportunities: learning online via smartphone in central Java in Indonesia during the Corona pandemic.

Digitalisierung

Do not expect too much of digitised education

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by Julia Maria Fesser

Informal vendors

A battle for the streets

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by Raphael Mweninguwe
Building boom in Istanbul.

Urban development

Why real-estate prices are rising fast in Istanbul

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by Sarah C. Schreiner
Drinking water supplier in Istanbul.

Urban development

Urban growth can cause water supply problems

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by Sarah C. Schreiner
Improved slum in Kolkata.

Urbanisation

Stages of improving neglected communities’ lives

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by Diana Mitlin
by David Satterthwaite
SDI is a movement of the urban poor, calling for more “slum friendly” cities.

Informal settlements

Local ownership is crucial to making slums more liveable

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by Diana Mitlin
by David Satterthwaite
An event in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, to commemorate the genocide of 1994.

Trauma

Confront the past or lose the future

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by Gesine Ames
by Luca Bootsmann