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We can’t rid Asia of natural disasters. But we can prepare for them

December 12, 2018 by World Economic Forum Leave a Comment

This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Nathanial Matthews, Program Director, Global Resilience Partnership & Deon NelCEO, Global Resilience Partnership Haiyan, Mangkhut, Yutu. Asia is one of the regions most affected by natural disasters, like the super typhoons named above. An estimated 40% of global losses […]

Filed Under: World Economic Forum Tagged With: Asia, disasters, disasters Southeast, early warning systems typhoons, Haiyan, Mangkhut, natural disasters, Social Media, The European Sting, The Sting, typhoons, wef, WEF Agenda, World Economic Forum, Yutu

Is the EU competent enough to fight human smuggling in 2015?

January 16, 2015 by The Sting's Team Leave a Comment

That the European Union is facing its big problem of exorbitant illegal immigration is not news. How can it be in a gigantic region of 28 countries spreading around the Old Continent? And most of all one of the top five coastline lengths in the world with some 70,000 km coasts bordering the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and […]

Filed Under: Policy, Refugee Crisis, Regional Tagged With: Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU immigration, European Commission, Frontex, Immigration Smuggling, Italy, Mare Nostrum, Social Media, The West is in Eden, Triton

Zuckerberg, a paella, and the mighty EU questionnaires that would stop Whatsapp acquisition by Facebook?

July 11, 2014 by The Sting's Team Leave a Comment

It was the end of February and we were walking around the Ramblas in Barcelona, at the eve of Mobile World Congress 2014, where the Sting was the only Brussels media that made it to Catalunya. Seduced by the smell of paella and cinnamon, there was one major thing that all the people wearing the magic MWC badge were whispering […]

Filed Under: Business, Digital, Policy, Telecommunications Tagged With: Almunia, Data Privacy, DG Competition, EU Antitrust Facebook, Facebook, Marc Zuckerberg, Social Media, The Wall Street Journal, Whatsapp, Whatsapp Acquisition

Teamgum @ TheNextWeb 2014

May 7, 2014 by TheNextWeb Leave a Comment

Written by Divyesh Kharade, Co_founder of Teamgum Teamgum was amongst the 96 Startups which were selected for the TNW Boost program and as a part of the package we were promised a stand to showcase our product, PR coverage and a star list of people we could meet and network with, thanks to WeTransfer. The real […]

Filed Under: InfoSociety, Sting Exclusive, Technology, Telecommunications Tagged With: Amsterdam, App, European Sting, Internet, Social Media, Surfly, Teamgum, TheNextWeb 2014, tnw14, Vooza, Zeef

#TwitterisblockedinTurkey and so is Erdogan

March 25, 2014 by Carlo Motta Leave a Comment

Last Thursday night Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially ‘declared war’ to Twitter. With a public, old authoritarianism-scented speech at late evening, he announced that he wants to “eradicate Twitter”, adding that the social media platform is a “menace” and he’s “not interested in what the international community says”. “They will see the power […]

Filed Under: EUGlobe, Policy, Politics, Turkey Tagged With: corruption, democracy, Erdoğan, EU Turkey relations, freedom of speech, leak, OCSE, Social Media, Turkey, Turkish crisis, Turkish protests, Twitter

Amazon, a pair of shoes and my Data Privacy walks away

April 5, 2013 by Leo Buonapartis Leave a Comment

Try to remember the last time you shopped from Amazon. Most likely you are another happy consumer that has enjoyed the benefits of e-shopping in terms of service, price and delivery time. It is also highly possible that you already master the plethora of reasons not to get into your car and experience all that […]