Last month, a tiny island nation in the Pacific Ocean took a giant step for mankind.  

Vanuatu, an archipelago of islands, like many other countries in the Indo-Pacific such as Fiji, Sri Lanka, Maldives, and Madagascar, is vulnerable

A new climate narrative that fires up youth environmental activism, myriad high stake climate injury court cases, investments in new climate technologies that create business opportunities, and most importantly, political commitment from global leaders would bring about slow mitigation of the climate crisis.

The term cyberspace was coined by William Gibson in his 1984 science fiction Neuromancer—a dark social universe. But America created cyberspace, the Internet,  based on its democratic value system—free, open, decentralized, distributed, and self-governing.

 What if the Internet had been created in China or Russia?  Its architecture and algorithms would have been very different, geared more toward creating a surveillance society than enhancing democratic values.