The Island Innovation Team
Adapting Tourist Destinations For Remote Workers & Digital Nomads In 2021
The trend of remote workers and digital nomads was on rise over the last 5 years, but has accelerated dramatically due to the pandemic. This virtual session features presentations from speakers representing destinations across the world that have the potential to adapt their economies through the substantial global growth in remote work, including ways in which these destinations are actively engaged in attracting remote workers.
Call To Papers: The Falklands Islands – 40 Years After The War
As we build-up to the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands War, it provides an opportunity to reflect on the nature of the Falkland Islands at that time and the impact of the war, not just on the Falklands itself, but on the Commonwealth and the international community more generally.
- Climate Change action reaches Bougainville.
- Pacific island nations turn to Beijing-backed AIIB as pandemic sinks economies.
- Orkney to become a sustainable aviation test environment.
- The South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty: 35 years on.
- A second UN term for a champion of causes crucial to the Caribbean.
Interesting stories about energy from the world’s islands:
Remote Portuguese Island To House World’s First ‘Digital Nomad Village’
Ponta do Sol, a village of 1,800 people on the Portuguese island of Madeira, west of the capital Funchal, will unveil a centre providing Wi-Fi, workspace and accommodation assistance for several hundred remote workers.
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