The report found that "flash mob" protests, organized in part using mobile devices, have played a role in the toppling of governments in the Philippines in 2001 Georgia in 2003 Ukraine in 2004-5 Kyrgyzstan in 2005 and Thailand in 2006, along with more recent examples including the 2019 ouster of Algeria's long-serving President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. "That role ranges from at one extreme, efforts to incite political violence, to the use for which they were intended, namely communication."
Megha Kumar, Deputy Director of Analysis at Oxford Analytica. "Since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising specifically, social media have come to play a very important political role across developing and developed economies," said Dr.
"In fact, social media is the major interaction point for popular opinion in China, and hundreds of thousands or even millions of people will participate in conversations on controversial social issues."
"There is an important myth to dispel, that China doesn't have politics," said Rana Mitter, professor of Chinese politics at the University of Oxford. The report was launched at a client webinar, where presenters contrasted the impacts of new technologies in different world regions. The report highlights how social media has made activist politics more effective as well as empowering social groups that may have traditionally avoided political activism because of social discrimination or geographical dispersion. In the latest edition, the Index assesses the impact of new technologies, particularly social media, on emerging market politics. LONDON, DecemFor more than a decade, the Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ:WLTW) Political Risk Index has been monitoring patterns of political instability in the world's most vulnerable countries.
’Green’ materials such as reclaimed wood and energy efficient fixtures were used for a greater building performance.Technology increasingly a driver of emerging markets risk, says Willis Towers Watson reportįrom hashtag campaigns to government internet shutdowns, technology is now a key political risk focus according to the WTW Political Risk Index Winter Update Energy efficiency is decisive in the design process, so the project, consequently, is based entirely on the idea of taking advantage of natural resources such as natural light, natural insulating systems and natural energy conservation systems such as geothermal exchange, green roofs, etc. The materials used look merge with the natural environment externally - in aesthetical terms, as well as internally - in functional terms. Its architectural simplicity is reinforced by the necessity of architectural sobriety and respect towards the elements and nature at the site. The building derives its form from programmatic and site conditions – on one hand, the flow of the processes and program required in the program and their architectural resolution generate a long and low building broken where access points are needed, on the other hand, natural site conditions such as illumination and wind, the service access and the necessity of differentiating front and back - entrance and service areas - make the long mass the appropriate response. The sequence of these components contributes to the volumetric arrangement of the building - all areas are connected by a service corridor that runs along the building and organizes not only the circulation between spaces, but the production line of the company itself. The program includes greenhouses, warehouses, workshops, showrooms and administrative areas. It emerges from the site as a wooden volume, discrete and elegant, and blends with the landscape as it responds to the natural environment, boundary lines and zoning conditions. The project, located at the shores of the Obersee in Switzerland, houses the headquarters of the internationally recognized landscape architecture firm Enea Garden Design.