Category Archives: Announcements 2016

How does Macedonia and Albania’s economic development parallel each other and in what ways are they different? Both Macedonia and Albania are small transitional economies. Both countries have had a long, difficult, expensive and conflictive transition.  Both countries continue to have huge migration flows. However, Albanians flow is higher than Macedonians flow: over 30% versus…

  What does the term “smart city” represent to you? It is important to set out from the outset that while some components may be present in all city environments, there is no such thing as a “smart city definition” that fits all realities. What it certainly must be is a territory that manages to combine…

What is emotional engineering and process­focused design? Are they related concepts?  Emotion comes from the Latin words “e=ex”=out and “movere”=move, and motivation comes from the same Latin word “movere”.  Thus, motivation-action-emotion constitute a cycle and it is repeated. Emotion is deeply associated with our internal desire or intrinsic motivation and our needs to grow, which psychologists point out. Process-focused design is, in short, a…

    It is our pleasure to announce Jared Smith as a speaker at the MK2025 Summit. Jared Smith is President and co-founder of Task Force BPO an international service organization that specializes in providing support services to the insurance and healthcare industries. Task Force BPO is headquartered in the USA and has a global…