The world wants more infrastructure investment | Nigerians nervous about new Lagos metro | UK using blockchain on rail projects

infrastruttura no. 35 Fifty-seven percent of the world thinks governments are underinvesting in infrastructure. Together with Ipsos, the Global Infrastructure Investor Association recently surveyed 23,000 adults in 31 countries on their views of governments' levels of investment in infrastructure, as well as the quality of their country's assets in

America's public transit fiscal crisis, tokenizing infrastructure, and the promises of virtual power plants

Transit agencies across America are struggling to regain ridership post-COVID. The country's eight largest agencies (NYC's MTA, BART, LA Metro, MBTA in Boston, the DC area's WMATA, SEPTA in Philly, New Jersey Transit, and the Chicago Transit Authority) are also collectively facing a $6.6B cumulative budget shortfall through 2026.

Infrastructure is drowning in private equity | Benefits of renewable energy tokens | The "messy reality" of green cities

Thanks to recent legislation like IIJA and the Inflation Reduction Act, might increased federal investment in US infrastructure also catalyze a dramatic increase in the private sector's ownership of public assets? A recent op/ed in the New York Times uses a Brookfield infrastructure fund's recent $2B investment in two