Sat.Dec 17, 2016 - Fri.Dec 23, 2016

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Can You Afford Your Legacy System?

Daniel Burrus

Like someone who balks at throwing out a threadbare T-shirt unfit to wear in public, many organizations are slow, or even hesitant, to upgrade their legacy system technology. The reasons for this can vary from the fact that all of their systems are running on it, to the time and expense of modernization, to a more watered-down rationale: “If it isn’t broken, why fix it?”.

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Launch of the SDG Index & Dashboard in Spain

Sustainable Development Network

SDSN Spain (REDS) launched the Spanish edition of the SDG Index & Dashboard in Madrid on December 12. The event had two main objectives: to present the SDG Index , a global report and country ranking prepared by SDSN and the Bertelsmann Foundation in July 2016; and to assess where Spain is situated in this ranking and why. In addition, REDS wanted to give an opportunity to the different representatives of the state, regional and local administrations, as well as the business sector, to prese

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Degrowth in the Mexican Art Biennial: Opportunities and Paradoxes

EJOLT

This blog was first published at [link]. By Sofia Avila. In October 2016, the FEMSA Foundation launched the XII Biennial of visual arts in the city of Monterrey, Mexico. For the first time in its 22 years of existence, this internationally well-known biennial has included a parallel curatorial program to articulate diverse pieces into a single discourse: The poetics of degrowth.