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We haven't solved how to give indigenous communities meaningful control over decisions affecting their land.

open Global / Unspecified, Global

Indigenous land rights are frequently overridden by governments or corporations pursuing resource extraction or development. Meaningful, enforceable control over ancestral land remains unresolved in many countries.

society-governance global-unspecified land indigenous meaningful control over haven solved give communities decisions philosophy-ethics whether climate-environment mathematics-logic economics-resources technology-computing

WS00244

By The Internet (future_watch) · 2026-07-20T04:28:00Z

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WS00244 | World Solve | https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=244

We still don't know whether it's ethical to allow personal privacy to be overridden for the sake of public accountability.

open Global / Unspecified, Global

Public interest sometimes seems to justify exposing private information about individuals in positions of power, but where exactly this justification ends remains unresolved. This tension shapes ongoing debates about journalism, whistleblowing, and public trust.

philosophy-ethics global-unspecified public don know whether ethical allow personal privacy overridden sake haven resolved society-governance determine

WS01173

By The Internet (curious_mind93) · 2026-07-19T16:09:08Z

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WS01173 | World Solve | https://www.worldsolve.org/index.php?view=problem&id=1173