Non-profit research center that offers institutional and financial support to academics of all fields who seek to make sense of emerging social trends and their effects on human communities.
STI organizes and sponsors experts meetings of some dozen scholars from a variety of disciplines.
A Path towards Social Integration despite Cultural Diversity
Intercultural mediation can improve social dynamics outcomes even in situations of conflict.
THE THRIVING SOCIETY
Technology, Innovation, and Digital Literacy Education Can Accelerate Gender Equality
The March 2023 gathering of Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) —the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls and their human rights— closed its two-week long session with the acknowledgment of the critical role of technology and innovation in achieving gender equality.
THE THRIVING SOCIETY
How Can We Benefit from Plurality of Opinions without Falling into Polarization?
Professor María Luengo explains in this STI interview her new project: "Digi_morals: Moral Disagreements in the Digital Sphere. Interactive Dynamics, Micro-mechanisms and Cultural Markers."
TECHNOLOGY & ETHICS
Can Heritable Genome Editing Ever Be Compatible with Equality?
Heritable genome editing is gaining support as a morally acceptable practice when it complies with certain caveats. Nevertheless, heritable genome editing under any circumstances may well be in conflict with a progressive and inclusive society in which all persons are considered equal.
TECHNOLOGY & ETHICS
The Poverty of Anti-Capitalism
Both current challenges and the past failures of economic planning suggest that we need more market pricing, more globalization, and more growth, not less, argues Professor Harold James.