Atlas Network’s Brad Lips, Matt Warner, Dr. Tom Palmer, and Magatte Wade will be headliners at LibertyCon 2020, Students For Liberty’s annual conference that attracts students and young liberty activists from all over the world. As this year’s presenting sponsor, Atlas Network’s efforts to strengthen the worldwide freedom movement will be an important part of this exciting three-day gathering. Find out how you can join us April 3-5 in Washington, DC for great discussions about freedom with young people from all over the world!

Deep inside the world’s least economically free country, important discussions of the future of liberty are bringing hundreds of students and leaders together to ponder how technology and innovation can rebuild Venezuela. In 2019, CEDICE Futuro hosted workshops to educate students, entrepreneurs, and policy makers about the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Venezuela, a new paradigm that characterizes how technological advancements will fundamentally alter human interactions.

Balancing the role of the state with the needs of local interests is key to transformative change, says Atlas Network's President Matt Warner in a new column for Devex’s Global Views. Warner points out that change comes when free people are able to make choices that work best for local needs, using their knowledge to reshape and strengthen opportunities for economic freedom.

A More or Less Perfect Union, a new PBS documentary series produced by Free to Choose Network and hosted by DC Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, celebrates the U.S. Constitution through dramatic reenactments, interviews, and personal reflections. Find out how you can watch the full series here.

If you’re changing the world, Atlas Network wants to celebrate with you! We’re currently accepting applications through February 15 for the prestigious Templeton Freedom Award, sponsored by Templeton Religion Trust. Applying for the award also qualifies your organization for consideration in our 2020 Regional Liberty Awards, which are given in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, MENA, and North America. Apply today! 

When Livres asked young and low-income Brazilians what worries them, the answer was Brazil’s decaying public sewage system. Livres made access to a functional sewage system a policy priority, advocating for private investment while working closely with the Speaker of the House of Representatives for real change. As a result of their work, a new legal framework that will improve the problem is already underway in the Congresso Nacional.

Business creation is now quicker and easier in Nepal, thanks to a regulatory change that reduces the paperwork required for incorporation. Samriddhi Foundation led the fight for this change and is now encouraging the adoption of another amendment that will legitimize mobile businesses. Atlas Network’s Poverty & Freedom project has told the stories of some of these entrepreneurs, including a rideshare business in Kathmandu and a farmer with a mobile mill.
 

Pravo na rad (Right to Work), a new documentary featuring the hoops that three Serbian entrepreneurs must jump through in order to comply with overregulation, is the latest effort by the Center for Anti-Authoritarian Studies (CAAS) to demonstrate how entrepreneurs fight obstacles to opportunity. CAAS’ companion photography exhibit, which debuted at a local gallery, showcases the daily struggles that entrepreneurs face just to make ends meet. 

“In a twist of historical irony, Mr. Erdogan has achieved what Turkey’s previous leaders failed to do—mobilize mass support for the Turkish Republic’s founding principles of secularism and clean, modern government,” writes Medeni Sungur, executive director of Daktilo1984, in a recent commentary for The Wall Street Journal.

“Now is the time to advocate for liberty,” writes internationally-renowned economist Dr. Roberto Salinas León, the director of Atlas Network’s Center for Latin America. The Center’s newly released Annual Report 2019, which was presented at the Center’s first annual dinner, showcases highlights from Atlas Network’s 95 partners in the region and shares important context about the future of freedom in Latin America. Last week’s event in Miami featured speeches by exiled Cuban author Carlos Alberto Montaner and former Argentine Minster of Defense Ricardo López Murphy. See the Annual Report here.