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Strategic foresight tools can help policy makers adopt a more proactive approach to solving problems.
How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
A district heating project taps the help of private sector companies to promote higher energy efficiency and lower emissions.
Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
An after-school program for teens that develops technical competence in 21st-century skills is being replicated across the country and beyond.
Looking at the next 10 years, global risk experts place environmental risks among not only the most likely, but also the most impactful risks.
Government can partner with telcos and educators and use multiple channels of existing infrastructure to reach as many children as possible.
The Republic of Korea tackles the challenge of revitalizing old neighborhoods while preventing the side effects associated with gentrification.