Seoul has embraced peer-to-peer businesses and become the sharing economy’s model city. Now, the Sharing City initiative is turning it into a blueprint for city governance. But what makes Seoul ideal for this experiment? And what’s really driving Koreans to embrace sharing?

Gen Y is often labelled as narcissistic and entitled – yet in 2013, 87% of them gave to charity. Over 60% of Millennials have donated via their mobiles, and they want transparency and simplicity when doing so. Are charities paying enough attention to tomorrow’s philanthropists?

A classic approach for encouraging cooperation is to alter the personal cost; for example, increasing the material incentive – like giving a person some cash – for doing the right thing. But this often doesn’t work. What does work, research shows, is linking a person's actions to their identity.

Everyone knows giving feels good, but new evidence suggests it also leads to a healthier life. According to a new study in the Journal of Economic Psychology, giving to charity is correlated with boosting the giver's ‘physical and emotional well being’.