Tim Berners-Lee, a SOLID defender of Internet users
Update: 8 November 2020. Tim Berners-Lee startup launches privacy-focused service to secure your data (LINK)
Sir Tim, now 63, knighted in 2004, has made no secret of how dissatisfied he is with the way the...
Counterpoint: Perfumed toilets: going round the S-bend?
The goddess Fortuna was often depicted on the walls of Roman lavatories. Probably because she brought luck. But many business heads have realized that fortunes are to be made from catering to our hygiene...
Dealing with poop: the virtues of perfume
The American doctor was standing in the shade of an acacia tree, scarcely shielded from the blistering midday heat of a Somali refugee camp. Working for Oxfam, he was carefully taking samples from a...
Humanitarianism under threat: How to keep your humanitarian principles when all around are losing...
The lights are dimming across the humanitarian space as more and more governments choose to ignore or disavow the humanitarian rules promulgated in more enlightened times. Shoring up a system under existential threat is...
Geneva catches up with crypto – at its Polo Club
2 July 2018, updated 22 January 2019 But first some history. In the crypto world, that means what happened this year.
Braving local criticism, Swiss Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Amman told journalists when he arrived for a...
Israel: Fifty years of shrinking democracy
Geneva Hub is open to any member of the Global Geneva Support Community or guest writer at the invitation of the editors. The Right Livelihood Award Foundation, which selected Physicians for Human Rights -...
Switzerland’s Global Compact: Making SDGs real
Constituting Switzerland’s first Global Compact Dialogue, over 200 business people, government and NGO representatives, as well as journalists and students, gathered in early February in Berne to discuss what appears to be a new...
Travesty of Justice in Nepal
A disappearance, to human rights advocates, is the worst crime imaginable. So why has the human rights movement - including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International - turned its back on the families of...
