The True Story of the Migrant Crisis in Lesvos: #NoFilter.
Gaia Giletta is an Italian 25-year-old graduate student in Paediatric Nursing. She started doing her first volunteering experiences in high school and these eventually transformed into medical missions with the evolution of her professional formation. She went to Kenya 7 times, collaborating directly with an orphanage and with their heart …
Paris Attacks: How the World Reacted
Pray for Paris In what appears to be the deadliest terror attacks in France in many decades, at least 127 people were reported killed in Paris on Friday night as a series of deadly attacks was staged across the capital city. Some reports say another 200 were injured, as many as 80 seriously. Since …
What is really going on in Eastern Ukraine?
Interview with Andrea Cellino – Former Team Leader of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine for OSCE Andrea Cellino is a former team leader of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) where he has worked from April 2014 to September …
International Coffee Day: What else?
1st of October 2015 is the first official International Coffee Day (ICD), a holiday designated by the International Coffee Organisation to celebrate one of the world’s most popular drinks in the world. The Coffee Break is a Global Trend Whether your “cup of coffee” is a Macchiato, a strong double …
Syrian Refugees: the European Reaction
10.6 million Syrians have left their country: almost half of all the people in Syria. This is the dramatic result of an unrelenting and devastating war that started back in 2011, after the outbreak of protests against the government. Millions of women, children and men abandoned their beloved land and …
Internet and Terrorism: Tweeting for #Jihad
Internet has gradually changed the lives of people around the world: it has affected how we organize our everyday lives and revolutionized the ways people interact and communicate. The scale of the diffusion and adoption of the Internet transformed it in a typical ‘network good’: a good that becomes more valuable …
Ziferblat: the pay-per-minute café in London
Ziferblat is the first place where everything is free except the time you spend there. From the minute you ring the doorbell of Ziferblat, you know you are not walking into a normal bar. In fact, this is not a bar, nor a hipster club, or a vintage library: it is a …
Asia’s Internet Transformation
The pace of technological innovation and the growth of Internet usage have a disruptive impact on how people around the world think and live. The International Telecommunication Union estimates that there are 2.5 billion Internet users today: 1.6 billion more than in 2004. And most of this growth comes from …
Technology and Family: What an evolution!
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” When Lev Tolstoy started writing Anna Karenina he was not aware that this incipit was going to become immortal, but he was aware of the importance of the family for the development of his characters. What …
Interview with HE Asta Skaisgiryte Liauskiene, Ambassador of Lithuania to the UK
Energetic and driven. These are probably the first things that come to your mind when you listen to HE Asta Skaisgiryte Liauskiene, the Lithuanian Ambassador for the United Kingdom. “When you go to politics, don’t be afraid to stand alone. Have your own views on whatever is happening and defend …