Sat.Mar 26, 2016 - Fri.Apr 01, 2016

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USA Sustainable Cities Initiative: Taking Stock and Building on Existing Development Efforts

Sustainable Development Network

By Sandra Ruckstuhl With over 50% of the world’s population living in urban areas, cities are crucial to the fulfillment of sustainable development. They are also testimony to the universal nature of our challenges: unemployment, deteriorating infrastructure, traffic and safety issues, sub-standard educational achievement and social exclusion. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an opportunity to address these profound challenges at the city level through clear and compelling goals,

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Technology Is Disrupting Crime – Are You Ready?

Daniel Burrus

Crime rates have been recorded for as long as most of us can remember and will typically conjure up thoughts of homicide, burglary, and robbery. However, maybe these crime reports are a little misleading in this digital age where theft for example, is often more likely to occur online than affect you in a more physical sense. Last year England and Wales made the forward-thinking move of including cyber crime into their crime figures.