Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2016 - New Horizons”
Profile : musician discovering musical instruments worldwide. Surprising improvisations are appearing from transformed objects from his garden (the famous carrot-flute), from sport (bike handlebars, syringe) or from an enchanted house: from brush to fondue pot, from coffee cup to watering can. With piano, hang, fujara, Trinidad’s steel pan, balafon… Alexandre Cellier is making a living of his concerts in French …
Profile : musician discovering musical instruments worldwide. Surprising improvisations are appearing from transformed objects from his garden (the famous carrot-flute), from sport (bike handlebars, syringe) or from an enchanted house: from brush to fondue pot, from coffee cup to watering can. With piano, hang, fujara, Trinidad’s steel pan, balafon… Alexandre Cellier is making a living of his concerts in French …
In 2014-2015, Dr Tawfik Jelassi suddenly found himself in the spotlight. A respected academic, he was given the opportunity to become a Minister in Tunisia’s transition government. He presents, with humour and insight, the challenges he faced as he entered the high-stakes, high-risk world of politics. He shares the lessons of leadership he learned as Minister of Higher Education, Scientific …
Virtual Reality is a burgeoning industry that is generating much excitement in tech circles. Bruce speaks about his personal experiences with shared virtual reality, the surprises and epiphanies along the way, and the impact it can have on human communication at this early stage. Bruce Wooden is Head of Developer Relations at AltspaceVR, a virtual reality interactive communications platform …
Global inequality is becoming more complex and is increasingly harder to bring to the attention of the general public. In this talk, Bibi takes you along on the journey of the phone that is designed to give us access and understand complex stories about our economic system and the way it connects us all. After completing her Master’s degrees in …
Kaspar takes you through the journey of e-Residency, which is perhaps one of the most important government experiments in the 21st century. The experiment started nearly 20 years ago after Estonia decided to become a fully digital society and issuing to every resident a digital identity. In his talk, Kaspar shares how e-Residency has taken the next step to enable …
In this talk Susan invites you to ask some big questions about money. Where does it come from, who gives it power, and is it possible to create your own? She will talk about a currency she co-founded in Brixton, London, and also some other experiments with money throughout history. Susan Steed is an economist who has worked in various …
Digital citizenship is an intriguing but still very abstract idea with a dark past and great potential. A journalist who has followed youth Internet safety and citizenship for nearly 20 years, Anne Collier looks at what this phenomenon is and offers five ways adult society can actually make it viable for what we call ”digital citizens,” the heart of digital …
