Interdependent Thoughts – by Ton Zijlstra

Still, many questions have global aspects. Our information networks, our trade routes, our dependencies are truly global. Because of it many of our issues, including climate emergencies, are global in both their roots and consequences. We all suffer from small earth syndrome these days, as I phrased it in 2010 at the SHiFT Conference, where everything anyone of us does reverberates around the world because we are continuously bumping into real global limits, Club of Rome style.

Tim Berners-Lee, Giant Global Graph (2007)

A new vision for the web where the users master their data and link them to everybody's benefit in a giant global graph.

Annick de Witt on Worldview Theory in a Time Between Worlds

Join us for the Life Itself Research Community Call#33. Annick de Witt discusses how her research on worldviews helps us respond to our current period of global societal transition.

Human perspectives on AI · Global Voices

This GV Spotlight edition will explore how the use of, promotion of, and resistance to artificial intelligence is playing out for the Global Majority.

A fact-based worldview for all | Gapminder

We live in a globalized world, not only in terms of trade and migration. More people than ever care about global development. But most people have severe misconceptions about contemporary global development. We know, because we have tested people’s knowledge. One of the main reasons for this is that students don’t learn to understand the world based on statistics and facts. Instead, we have a dramatic worldview formed by outdated school books and sensationalist news-stories. People intuitively believe that most things are getting worse. The dramatic worldview leads to irrational decisions by individuals, nonprofits, governments and business. For the first time in human history reliable statistics exist. There’s data for almost every aspect of global development. The data shows a very different picture: a world where most things improve; a world that is not divided; and a world where the fast population growth will soon be over. The world has never been less bad. But that doesn’t mean it’s perfect.

From Space, to Time

This post is the text version of a talk I’ve been giving at several conferences (and I plan to give it a couple more times). I have spent many years observing and building things on the web and this is one of the main trends I’ve been…

Perception of Global Leaders - Nira Data

Discover global leader rankings, approval ratings, and reputation insights in the 2025 Perception of World Leaders report.

Global Reporting Centre (@globalreportingcentre.org)

The GRC is an editorially independent journalism organization based at @ubcjournalism.bsky.social. We are leaders in doing global journalism differently. globalreportingcentre.org

Cohort — A New Professional Social Graph

“Professional? Social? Isn’t that what LinkedIn is for!” Nope.

W Social: Hello World!

Hello World! 🙂 This category is for discussing W Social, a new member on the AT-protocol federation. Launched in conjunction with the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 19, 2026, the project has sparked a lot of praise, interest, rumors and slander. In fact, our social media monitoring console registered 1 billion post views (across all the main social media) for posts mentioning #wsocial within the first week. As I write this, W Social is not yet open for business. There i...

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Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.

[Mature Content] Check out genzcaden’s Reddit profile

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Country Perception

How countries and global organizations are perceived around the world

Worlding Raga: 4 - Who Worlds?

So far we’ve been discussing Worlding as an art . One that an individual creator can engage in on their own. As Venkat suggested , we are already living in an…