Amazon regularly catches everyone by surprise when it announces it is launching a new farfetched or futuristic innovation, be it delivery drones or self-service shops. This makes for a bizarre company, with a foot in...
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Anouk Pradier
Who would Ibo be in your organization?
How do we identify ourselves? Do we always have the same identity wherever we are, and whatever we do? Or, do we tend to identify ourselves differently depending on in which environment we mainly spend our time? A clue...
Joosung Lee
Reporters without borders, Sorbonne University… End of the year recap
When we created KIP, we wanted to go beyond borders. Intellectual borders on the one hand and geographical borders on the other, but also borders on the Web. We wanted to give our team the opportunity to live a...
Hugo Sallé
Untouchability: A practice that dooms humanity
Imagine yourself in a place where no one wants to touch you, no one wants to be friends with you, and, from the very minute are born, you are not even allowed basic privileges such as education. You are oppressed...
Nistha Chakraborty
Social Contract 2.0
The advent of the internet was supposed to bring freedom of information to the world. Information flows would develop to a point where not even the old nation state could resist them. The first cell phones bypassed...
VIcente Futscher
Catalonia: what if independence was nothing more than a pretext?
On the 1st of October, almost 90% of Catalans expressed their will to become independent. An event that surely shocked Europe. First because the Catalan people has shown it wanted to break away from Spain. Then, because...
Plume Anonyme
Bitcoin: the sky is the limit
Soaring to new heights above $10,000, Bitcoin embodies the seemingly unstoppable trend of emerging decentralised cryptocurrencies that offer an alternative to central-bank-controlled classic currencies. Their value, not...
Simon Poggioli
Sheik mates
Why Qatar is still suffering from an embargo “A return to the dark age of tribes”: this is how the Qatari foreign affairs minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, qualified on Tuesday, October 17th the government...
Damien de La Rocque
Hollywood: Studios Almighty
How studios interfere in blockbusters, or the stalemate of the Hollywood system. Hollywood. That place, or rather the myth it embodies, leaves no one cold. Sometimes depicted as a merciless machine that crushes artists...
Lukas Huberty
KIP Manifesto: Knowledge is Power
KIP originates in a simple assessment. Today, the world moves fast, information spreads even faster and the media usually favor breaking news or emotion-driving information to proper analysis. We consequently find...
