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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.
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Allan Päll: Bridging the Gap — Education and Employment in Europe

Allan Pall European Youth Forum
January 19, 2015
Some people say that we are post-crisis, but years after the crisis has supposedly ended, with a youth unemployment rate in the EU of 21.6 percent of — and in many countries, that already high statistic is much higher — there appears to be no end in sight for young people that cannot find secure jobs of good quality.
 
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Ganesh Bell: Driving Economic Growth in Europe with Digital Transformation

Ganesh Bell GE
January 16, 2015
What can revitalize the European economy? Many are asking this question as the region has stagnated economically for years. The answer lies in the wave of digital transformation enabled by the Industrial Internet. But in order to capitalize on this next industrial revolution, Europe must embrace major technological change in new ways.
 
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Gary Hufbauer: 2015 — A Decisive Year for Globalization

Gary Hufbauer Peterson Institute For International Economics
January 09, 2015
Globalization has contributed enormously to world prosperity. The rationalization of production through global supply chains and the application of new technology worldwide — not just where it was invented — made the 60 years following the Second World War the most prosperous era in human history.
 

But today globalization faces strong political headwinds. The very term triggers protest from the political left — it has come to be blamed for the prosperity of the top 1 percent, stagnant wages for everyone else and the excesses of Wall Street.
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Power to the People! It’s Boom Time for Distributed Power

December 26, 2014
A whisky distillery in Scotland uses mash residue to power its factory and produce steam for distilling while a brewery in Germany uses its own waste water to generate the electricity, steam and hot water needed to make its products. Elsewhere, tree bark, sewage sludge and even rubbish from landfill are all turning into one thing: power.
 

More and more companies are using waste products for power generation, thanks to the growth of distributed power.
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Andrew Tatem: How Mobiles Could Aid Disaster Response

Andrew Tatem Worldpop
December 19, 2014
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them — some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the developing world that lack much of the fixed infrastructure taken for granted elsewhere. This makes them an excellent potential source of information about population movements.
 
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Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
December 17, 2014
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important contributor to the health and well-being of people than the supply of energy.
 

In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?
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Mark Baker: Magic in the Moonlight

Mark Baker GE
December 10, 2014
Our ancestors knew when to plant by looking at it, ship captains navigate by it, and wolves howl at it … and now its draw will power our cities.  After solar power, moon power — or more exactly tidal power — is well positioned to provide a sustainable, limitless power supply for years to come.
 
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