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Njideka Harry: Design-Driven Innovations — An End to Extreme Poverty

Njideka Harry Youth For Technology Foundation
January 21, 2015
Attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, I’m excited to be involved in all the incredible sessions centered around the “new global context” and future decision-making given technological transformations. As a discussion leader at the “Designing Out Poverty” session, I will be shedding light on some of the core challenges in ending poverty and the nexus of opportunities for designers, scientists and innovators.
 
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Michael Elliott: Davos in the Age of Miracles

Michael Elliott The One Campaign
January 20, 2015
If you’re ever looking for a reason to go to Switzerland in the winter, here’s one: admiring the local railroad system.
 
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Marco Annunziata: Innovation Barometer — Businesses Disruption-Ready, in Right Conditions

Marco Annunziata GE
January 20, 2015
Our world is changing faster than ever. The marriage of digital and physical technologies is accelerating change in industry; the rise of the Global Brain with crowdsourcing and open-source collaboration is enabling hyper-charged innovation; and global growth is rapidly reshaping the map of global economic power. The confluence of these three forces is bringing about an unprecedented degree of disruption.

Can Business Regain the Public Trust?

February 10, 2014
Business has trust issues. And they’ve been a long time coming.
The issue of public trust “roughly describes the level and type of vulnerability the public is willing to assume with regard to business relations,” according to a 2009 study by Arthur W. Page Society and Business Roundtable’s Institute for Corporate Ethics.
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Conversation from Davos: John Rice and John Negroponte

January 30, 2014
A dramatically growing, global middle class is becoming a “demand generator” for companies “because they want infrastructure, healthcare and good, stable electricity,” said John G. Rice, GE’s Vice Chairman and President and CEO of GE Global Growth Operations.
Rice’s comments came in a wide-ranging video conversation with former U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte last week during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos.
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Global Learning Revolution at the Nexus

Subra Suresh Carnegie Mellon University
January 24, 2014
At the nexus of the four topics contemplated this week at the World Economic Forum at Davos—disruptive innovation, inclusive growth, society’s new expectations, and preparing for a world of nine billion—sits the idea of a Global Learning Revolution. Technology is disrupting traditional models of classroom education. But it also has the power to offer billions around the globe access to a first-class education and the hope for economic advancement.  Business plus government plus academia plus NGOs—working together—have the opportunity to bring this global learning revolution to life.

Women Don’t Need Quotas, They Need Opportunity

Rick Goings Tupperware Brands
January 24, 2014
Here’s what I like about the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos: it puts the really big topics on the agenda. For me, one of the biggest issues is gender inequality. The numbers are startling: Women perform 66 percent of the world’s work, they produce 50 percent of the world’s food, but earn a mere 10 percent of its income and own just 1 percent of its property.
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How to Bridge the Infrastructure Funding Gap

Douglas L Peterson Mcgraw Hill Financial Inc
January 23, 2014
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, global leaders will discuss how best to harness the power of transformational advances in business, society, and technology to maximize economic growth. One of the most fundamental questions that must be addressed this year is how to effectively finance the physical infrastructure necessary to support that growth.

Power Meetings and Power Plugs: Challenges for World Economic Forum in Davos

Tony Fratto Hamilton Place Strategies
January 22, 2014
One thing always occurs to me when I arrive in Davos for the World Economic Forum meeting: If we were really any good at building consensus and solving problems, we’d all be sticking the same kinds of power plugs into the same kinds of wall outlets by now. Instead, we travel the world with our byzantine collections of power adapters (or we leave them at home and buy new ones abroad).
I mean, if we can’t even solve this power plug crisis, how can we possibly hope to solve the world’s challenges today and elevate standards of living for people?
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Report: Failure to Deal With Cybersecurity Could Cost Global Economy Trillions

January 21, 2014
Failing to deal with the ever increasing global cybersecurity threat could cost the global economy $3 trillion by 2020 and plunge international relations to levels not seen since the Cold War, according to report released by the World Economic Forum just ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
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