Tag: global affairs
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Sub-Saharan Africa is the most developed market for mobile money, accounting for two-thirds of global mobile money transactions in 2020. There is a huge opportunity to leverage this growing popularity to… more ›
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WASHINGTON—A simple digital card praising Islamist militants for an attack on a Taliban position in Afghanistan last month is the first known nonfungible token created and disseminated by a terrorist… more ›
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Vitalik Buterin is one of the most well-known and best-loved figures in the crypto/blockchain world — well-known because Ethereum, the blockchain platform he co-created (with Gavin Wood) has become the platform for… more ›
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The Africa Energy Outlook 2022 is a new special report from the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook series. It explores pathways for Africa’s energy system to evolve toward achieving… more ›
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Shein (pronounced She In) is the fastest-growing ecommerce company in the world. It reportedly did almost $10 billion in revenue in 2020, and has grown over 100% for each of the past… more ›
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I think that, because we’re in a capitalist society, we think of AIs as amplifiers for production and consumption. But they can force-multiply on any vector if suitably directed. And,… more ›
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The horrific assault on Salman Rushdie on 12 August has reminded us of the continuing threat posed by Ayatollah Khomeini’s ‘fatwa’ against the author issued over thirty years ago in… more ›
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Like thousands of others in China, they have poured their savings into buying a presale apartment — only to see the developer fall into financial difficulties and halt construction on the… more ›
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Today’s fatalism about China is the fallacious assumption that its trajectory is inevitably upward, so it must be accommodated. Demographics tell a different story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/17/how-united-states-beats-china/ more ›
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These changes will permanently alter the map of our energy economy. But they suffer from one major limiting factor: the mineral inputs are increasingly expensive and increasingly unavailable. Solar and… more ›