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‘The Little Hospital That Could’: Confronting Diabetes in the Delta and Beyond

Billy Marlow North Sunflower Medical Center
January 23, 2014
The percentage of people in Mississippi aged 18 or greater who report they have been told they have diabetes is 11.3 percent, according to the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey in 2010.
In the Mississippi Delta, the problem is expounded by issues such as obesity, inactivity, familial history and poverty. In Sunflower County, 13.8 percent of the population has been diagnosed with diabetes, with an estimated one-third of the population currently unaware they may have the disease.

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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What is the Role of Business?

Yvan Allaire Institute For Governance Of Public And Private Organizations
January 22, 2014
Any business is a risky endeavor with an uncertain life expectancy. It has been, and should remain, a driver of innovation, a creator of wealth, a harbinger of economic freedom. The core mission of a profit-driven enterprise is not to fulfill some philanthropic duty. But neither is it solely to maximize short-term shareholder value.
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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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Top 10 Global Risks for the Decade Ahead

Margareta Drzeniek World Economic Forum
January 21, 2014
The Global Risks 2014 report calls attention to risks that could ripple through entire systems. It aims to improve collaboration among business, governments and civil society by raising awareness of these risks and the way they interact with each other.
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A Trade Policy for the Millenials

Susan Ariel Aaronson George Washington University
Michael Owen Moore George Washington University
January 20, 2014
Leaks are bedeviling trade negotiations.
In October, the European Commission leaked its position papers for the US-EU free trade agreement talks, known as the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement or T-TIP.

In November, Wikileaks leaked a draft of the intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement among 12 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. The same group also leaked a draft outlining country positions on key negotiating chapters in the TPP in early December.
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Are You Ready for the Internet of Everything?

John Chambers Cisco
January 20, 2014
The Internet of Everything is the connection of people, data, process and things. It is revolutionizing the way we do business, transforming communication, job creation, education and healthcare across the globe. As we’re beginning to witness, when we connect people, communities, cities – even countries – amazing things are possible.
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The Civic 50: Creating a Framework for Real Shared Value

Yvonne Siu Points Of Light Corporate Institute
January 17, 2014
Nearly three years after Michael Porter and Mark Kramer published “Creating Shared Value” in the Harvard Business Review calling on businesses to create economic value in a way that also creates social value, we are now seeing a growing number of companies step up to turn that vision into reality.

Data Innovation 101

Travis Korte Center For Data Innovation
January 16, 2014
Excited about data? Join the club. Data, both “big” and small, has the potential to grow the economy, cut costs in government and improve the health and welfare of individuals around the world.
While some organizations have been slow to adopt data-driven innovations, there has been a great deal of innovation through the entire “data lifecycle,” which includes collection, storage, analysis, use and dissemination. Not all data-driven initiatives have pieces that fall into all categories, but most projects have some aspects of each category.

Collection and Storage
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The Dangers of ‘Sponsored Data’

David Sohn Cdt
January 15, 2014
AT&T recently announced a new program under which providers of online services or apps can negotiate special deals to “sponsor” data usage by AT&T mobile customers, allowing those customers to use the services or apps without it counting towards their bandwidth caps. The argument for this idea is that consumers get some relief from the feeling that the data meter is always running, and online services get a way to overcome possible consumer reluctance to make full use of data-intensive services.
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