The vast trade networks of the Silk Roads carried more than just merchandise and precious commodities. In fact, the constant movement and mixing of populations brought about the widespread ...

This postcard by Naomi Hossain features in the World Social Science Report 2016. This contribution addresses the question of inequality in the world’s globalized food system. Hossain highlights that ...

Participatory data collection for disability-inclusive cities Step-by-step activities in developing a disability-inclusive city profile 13 Nov 2018 ...

The Oxfam briefing paper looks into work and its relation to wealth.03 Aug 2018 ...

The Radif of Iranian music is the traditional repertoire of the classical music of Iran that forms the essence of Persian musical culture. More than 250 melodic units, called gushe, are arranged into ...

An International Symposium on ‘Scientific and Cultural Exchanges along the Silk Roads’ will be held on November 18, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and online. This event is part of ‘Philosophy along ...

LINKS was founded as an intersectoral initiative in 2002, and has proceeded to inform and facilitate exchanges between the holders of Indigenous and local knowledge with science policy and ...

The termini, or start and end points, of the various routes which made up the Silk Roads were often sites of intense interactions and exchanges resulting in the formation of large cosmopolitan cities ...

The government of Ontario, Canada launched a basic income pilot in 2017. Though it was cancelled prior to official analysis in 2019, researchers were able to gather data and make findings about the ...

The rapid digitalization has led to significant disparities between the Global North and South, raising urgent concerns about 'digital colonialism.' Bitange Ndemo emphasizes the need for international ...

The trustworthiness of science should not require scientific expertise to assess. Trustworthiness should be based on the presence of expertise, good expert community functioning, and shared values.

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) can serve as a public infrastructure with open, democratic principles, though proactive deliberation is needed to avoid ensuing losses of agency, sovereignty and ...