Futurists and speakers Ross Dawson and Gerd Leonhard talk about about the future of newspapers.

The video of Gerd Leonhard’s keynote speech at Google Australia THINKTRAVEL event in Sydney, June 2010

Music used to be a product that we bought piece by piece. Now it is becoming a public utility, says media futurist Gerd Leonhard, who argues that we will soon be constantly connected to an infinite library of songs. And when music is like water or electricity, our friends become the new music critics.

Gerd Leonhard, Author, Speaker, Music & Media Futurist, talks about why the Future of Music & the Music Business is HOT, what the opportunities are, and how to take advantage of them.

Futurist Gerd Leonhard presents his vision on The Future of Music & Media at the Plugg 2009 Conference, addressing topics such as copyright vs usage right, the flat rate for digital music, convergence, mobility, the new digital content economy, advertising 2.0, compensation not control, and much more. This is part 1.

Futurist Gerd Leonhard presents his vision on The Future of Music & Media at the Plugg 2009 Conference, addressing topics such as copyright vs usage right, the flat rate for digital music, convergence, mobility, the new digital content economy, advertising 2.0, compensation not control, and much more. This is part 2.

The results of the National Planning Commission, the 9 key challenges facing South Africa today.

Provoke Radio produced a segment on eliminating poverty by the year 2015. Listen to what countries around the world plan to do and are doing to make our world a better place.

This program takes viewers on a field trip with Lakshman Yapa, a Penn State professor who teaches a unique class that searches for innovative ways to begin eradicating urban poverty.

Development planner specialising in integrating environmental health and resource management into urban plans and policies. Works with the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). Advises many international agencies on urban policy; Editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization and co-author of several Earthscan books including Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World: Local Solutions for Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America (with Jorge E. Hardoy & Diana Mitlin), Earthscan, 2000.