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Perspective Daily will konstruktive und lösungsorientierte Berichterstattung im deutschsprachigen Raum bieten. Ich bin überzeugt, dass ihre Ausrichtung hilft, um das vorbehaltlose Verbinden von Welten in unserer Gesellschaft auf großartige Weise voranzubringen. Perspective Daily – Werden Sie Mitglied! – Join it! Diese neue Organisation will weg von einem Journalismus, der von Skandalen und Katastrophen regiert wird, […]
Wael Ghonim: Let´s design Social Media for Social Change
Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt … by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto the streets, it turned from hopeful to messy, then ugly and heartbreaking. And social media followed suit. What was once a place for crowdsourcing, engaging and […]
Digital Revolution – Europe needs Willingness to Take Risks and Fault Tolerance
Steve Jobs had it easier than the Swiss entrepreneur Alfred Escher – said Lino Guzzella, President of ETH Zurich. The larger the market and the more optimistic attitude towards innovation in the US result in the local world successes with the digital revolution. Lino Guzzella formulated a farsighted, encouraging focus on the future for Switzerland […]
UN Human Development Report 2015
European countries have hit the jackpot: Six of them are at the top ten of the UN Human Development Report 2015 – as for many years in a row: Norway, Switzerland, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland. The leading group also includes North American and Australian countries. We can be so happy and grateful about living […]
Bahman Nirumand’s latest Iran Report
WORLD SALON speaker Bahman Nirumand reports about the execution of two minors, Steinmeiers visit in Teheran and a photo exhibition on Iran in Berlin. This and other news from politics, culture and economy in the November issue of the Iran report. With the election Hassan Rohanis to the Iranian president and his assumption of office […]
German Archeologists Return in Iraq
WORLD SALON speaker Margarete van Ess continues her heart project and is honored as „excellent ambassador for Germany“. Wars, conflicts and the iconoclasm of the Islamic state threaten cultural assets in the Arabian world. For the first time since 2002 German archeologists pursued again fieldwork in Southern Iraq – under big safety measures. … […]
Should the West Limit Itself?
Heinz Theisen opens us a wide historic and inspiring perspective: „The West believed that his values would pacify the world. However, the unipolar Western world order was a utopia. Instead of the end of history, we now have endless conflicts.“ (Guest commentary – in German – in NZZ, 4.11.15). Should the West limit itself? How […]
Nobel Peace Prize for Tunisian Civil Society Organizations
The National Dialogue Quartet of Tunisia receives the Nobel Peace Prize 2015 for its outstanding contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011. What a great inspiration for promoting and spreading peace and democracy! In December 2013, a deal was concluded to ask the […]
Accepting Refugees
Accepting Refugees is First of all Human, and Makes Economic Sense. „Everey euro we spend on training migrants is a euro to avoid shortage of skilled labour“, German state government declared some days ago. To accept refugees is not only human, it makes economically sense. Accepting refugees Read more in New Scientist. To unconditionally connect […]
How the renewal of the Arabian language could change the society.
The gap between Highly Arabic and colloquial language is striking. More and more people wish that the official language approaches to the real life. Particularly during the Arabian spring it was demanded in Egypt. Traditional representatives and leaders reject the change of the ancient tradition strictly. How the renewal of the Arabian language The Egyptian […]
