Eye contact is essential for building and developing trust. But after more than a year of working and socializing online, our ability to make and maintain eye contact has been diminished.
The settlement of Old Fadama has reinvented itself
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In cross-sector collaboration, communities and citizens articulate their needs and then partner with governments and NGOs to address these self-identified problems.
Studies like this are important because they help gather data from an African perspective.
Marriage equality supporters in 2006 probably had no idea the law they advocated would spur innovation.
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Talking about energy transitions could help overcome the impasse we seem to have reached on climate change.
Looking to the future, President Joko Widodo (centre) voiced a strong intention for Australia and Indonesia to become partners in developing the Pacific region.
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Thomas Durcan’s lab is growing 3D mini-brains in the search for a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Over the next year he is giving all his lab’s protocols, methods and results away.
People high on psychopathic personality traits, such as fearlessness and impulsiveness, often refuse to find common ground.
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Some people are better team players than others, but people with goal-oriented and manipulative personality traits can undermine collaborative efforts and affect the team outcome.
Global collaborations between the political and educational sectors aim to address the challenges faced by women scientists.
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Academic partnerships with diplomats, industry leaders and others, can provide a comprehensive approach to addressing the challenges faced by women in STEM.
Women leaders tend to collaborate better than men.
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From the biggest ‘wicked’ problems on down, finding solutions to challenges depends on working together collaboratively. Students think they’re good at this, but they aren’t. Here’s what could help.
Health professionals must work effectively in a team.
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The high-profile absence of several world leaders including Trump from the World Economic Forum has led some to suggest its influence is in decline. A philosopher who has seen Davos up close disagrees.
Making the most of human-robot collaborations will require good teamwork.
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Instead of taking pride in how quickly they cover the same stories as everyone else, these organizations make public service journalism their top priority.
Listening and learning during a Sustainable Futures in Action meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
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