📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
🌳 Africa is building a mighty green wall over the entire continent
In Africa, a Great Green Wall is being established right across the continent to prevent the spread of the Sahara desert.
🌲 The EU wants to plant three billion trees and halve the use of pesticides by 2030
The EU Biodiversity Strategy will save both biodiversity and the economy.
📚 Fact-based optimistic summer reading
There will be more time for reading this summer, now that there are no long holidays abroad. Here are a bunch of tips for filling your reading list with fact-based optimistic books.
💻 New world record in internet speed - one million times faster than broadband
Australian researchers have set a new world record in the speed of an internet connection. The record is now 44.2 terabits per second.
🌍 New subsea cable will bring internet to region where a billion people are offline
The 2Africa Project Partners issued a formal Global Press Release announcing the launch of the 2Africa cable system. 2Africa is one of the largest subsea projects in the world, connecting 23 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
📲 Bluetooth - the odd Swedish protocol that now exists in billions of gadgets
During the 1990s, Nils Rydbeck at Ericsson began to create a standard for wireless short-distance communication. Little did he know that 30 years later there would be billions and billions of connected things, from toys to toothbrushes.
💻📱 None of us need to be social distancing at all, thanks to technology
Do you remember when, just a couple of short months ago, many people argued that screen time (especially for kids) was a big problem? My, how that stigma has changed. It wasn't back then, and it absolutely is not now. Instead, it is the thing that keeps us together when we need to avoid contact.
🌎 Optimism today?
Sometimes, staying optimistic can be hard. Especially on days like today. There's a global pandemic affecting nearly the entire world, economies are free falling, and there is a looming sense of fear when you go out and about for the day. Turning on the news only fuels that
⚖️ The world's women are getting better protection from the laws of their countries
There are still great differences between the countries of the world in terms of women's rights and opportunities, but in the last 50 years equality has increased in all regions.