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 Inside the World Economic Forum: It’s all about numbers this week email.weforum.org This week’s newsletter is all about numbers. The top 10 list of emerging technologies for 2012 has gone viral. We feature a report on the five bad habits of healthcare costs. More than 300 companies from over 60 countries make up the Forum’s Global Growth Companies community. The population of South...
Simi Fajemirokun, one of the World Economic Forum’s 2012 Global Shapers, on rebranding Africa http://wef.ch/lVAb ^cp  Africa 3.0forumblog.org When history is being made, the participants sometimes do not recognize it. When history is being made, it at times happens unknowingly and can be easily passed off as an ordinary affair initially. All in all, it is incumbent on the partakers of history to recognize the crystal moment that fate has ...
Why blame capitalism? Claudia Valladares, Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Venezuela, 2010, discusses her hopes for capitalism and society ^cp Why blame capitalism?forumblog.org There were at least three sessions dedicated to capitalism at the recent World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos. Since then I have been thinking a lot about the issue. It is not that capitalism has failed, but it has been us as human beings who have failed in its implementation. If someone is ...
How can small-scale solutions that work and have real impact on the ground be dramatically increased? http://wef.ch/k0XY ^cp  Looking for trust in all the wrong placesforumblog.org The world seems to have lost the capability to make grand-scale changes. A new equitable global trade regime, a multilateral climate change agreement, reform of the UN Security Council and government bureaucracies, and the prevailing capitalist models might not happen in our lifetime. One of the key...
How can developing countries plan and fund greener infrastructure and development? Our new report explores solutions and looks at what is already being done to make “green growth” work. ^as  Financing Green Growth in a Resource-constrained Worldwww.weforum.org The scale and frequency of weather shocks, combined with long-term economic forecasts of climate change effects and fossil fuel costs, are having a political as well as an economic impact. Many developing country governments are changing their approach to infrastructure and industrial planning, choo...
This week’s podcast discusses the future of renewable energies, the role of nuclear energy and how to sustainably increase supply for the growing demand http://wef.ch/jjrw ^cp  Podcast: Making renewable energy workforumblog.org The world’s population continues to grow and, with it, the demand for more energy. Debates on fulfilling the demand have been ongoing for years. With climate change a growing problem, the types of energies needed are at the top of national agendas. This week’s podcast is dedicated to the future of r...
What is the point of faster growth if it deepens the environmental degradation, inequality and social unrest we are already experiencing? http://wef.ch/jeI5 Young Global Leader, Julia Novy-Hildesley, discusses how focus was very much on happiness at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting. ^cp What is the point of faster economic growth?forumblog.org While the economic crisis and the need to create jobs took center stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week, a bold new vision garnered much attention: Happiness. Are we working as individuals and nations to cultivate greater happiness – most simply described as thriving peo...
Read highlights from the World Economic Forum in the weekly newsletter http://wef.ch/jUCE. You can subscribe here http://wef.ch/subscribe ^cp  Newsletter: Shaping 2012email.weforum.org This week’s newsletter takes a look at several topics within the World Economic Forum. We introduce you to our community of Young Global Leaders, which will announce its class of 2012 in early March, and give you a sneak peek at our Africa meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and a look at how to mine...
The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies looks into the technological trends expected to have major social, economic and environmental impacts worldwide in 2012 ^cp The 2012 top 10 emerging technologies for 2012forumblog.org Emerging technologies are critical to building a sustainable and resilient future. But without new understanding, tools and capabilities, their safe and successful development is far from guaranteed. At the Summit on the Global Agenda 2011 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the World Economic Forum...
Interview with a selection of the unsung heroes of Davos 2012 http://wef.ch/ix7H ^cp  Podcast: Unsung heroesforumblog.org We are back from our Annual Meeting in Davos. Discussions on the future of capitalism and the Eurozone along with the big name participants dominated media headlines. But what many did not cover is what went on behind the scenes, and the participants who may not have such big names, but are doing bi...
Tiffany Misrahi, Research Analyst for the Global Agenda Councils at the World Economic Forum, discusses the opportunities and challenges faced by the manufacturing industry ^cp  The future of the manufacturing industryforumblog.org The manufacturing industry is not well understood. Yet, this industry is of strategic importance to the development of both emerging economies and developed markets. While manufacturing is not the solution to all problems, it is an innovative and high tech industry that generates many job opportunit...
Professor David Agus explains how new technologies are key to tackling non-communicable diseases ^cp  David Agus: Why we must embrace geneticsforumblog.org In 2010, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) overtook infectious disease as the leading killer worldwide. These include illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer and the ravages of malnutrition. A recent study by the World Economic Forum and Harvard University has estimated that NCDs wi...
Report illustrates how bad habits drive increases in heath expenditure ^cp  The five bad habits of healthcareforumblog.org Think about the last time you were ill, or someone close to you was in hospital. As you sat in the waiting room, were you calm and collected? Was your mind clear and ready to make optimal decisions about the future and which course of treatment to choose? No, you may think, but at least…
Hiring: Project Manager New Vision for Agriculture Initiative on our Consumer Industry Community. #Geneva-based http://wef.ch/jobs ^hr.
Hiring: Community Manager Healthcare responsible for managing relationships within the industry. #Geneva-based http://wef.ch/jobs ^hr
Professor Muhammad Yunus: ditch capitalism for a new car http://wef.ch/gAw1 ^cp Why capitalism is like a broke down carforumblog.org Professor Muhammad Yunus was at his provocative best here at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. In a special one to one debate with Rana Foroohar from Time magazine, he claimed that the current capitalist system simply had to be replaced altogether. He likened the current capitalist s...
Hiring: Community Manager India and South Asia responsible for shaping agendas within the region #Geneva-based http://wef.ch/jobs ^hr
Hiring: Associate Director Project Portfolio Impact responsible for providing strategic imputs. #Geneva-based http://wef.ch/jobs ^hr
Hiring: Community Manager China responsible for managing youth-oriented communities. #Beijing-based http://wef.ch/jobs ^hr
Hiring: Event Operations Manager responsible for event coordination of the Annual Meeting in China. #Beijing-based http://wef.ch/jobs ^hr
Hiring: Community Manager Energy Renewable responsible for managing relationships within that sector. #Geneva-based http://wef.ch/jobs ^hr
Hiring: Community Manager MENA responsible for building relationships within the region. #Geneva-based http://wef.ch/jobs ^hr
Now Live at the World Economic Forum in Davos http://wef.ch/live The Future across Generations with Muhammed Yunus ^ml  World Economic Forumwww.livestream.com World Economic Forum on Livestream. Webcasting sessions from World Economic Forum meetings. http://wef.ch/live - Watch live streaming Internet TV. Broadcast your own live streaming videos, like World Economic Forum in Widescreen HD. Livestream, Be There.
Live now: The Global Agenda in 2012 featuring Sheryl Sandberg et al on http://wef.ch/live or on our Livestream tab to the right. ^ml World Economic Forumwww.livestream.com World Economic Forum on Livestream. Webcasting sessions from World Economic Forum meetings. http://wef.ch/live - Watch live streaming Internet TV. Broadcast your own live streaming videos, like World Economic Forum in Widescreen HD. Livestream, Be There.
Twitter is the drug of Davos - Forum:blog http://wef.ch/eixp #WEF ^ml  Twitter is the drug of Davosforumblog.org One of the most sought after trophies of any Annual Meeting is the white participants booklet. A thick, white booklet listing all the 2600 participants, their photos, bio and contact details. The book is unwieldily to carry but often graces the bookshelves of any self-respecting Davos participant. H...
AP Chief Correspondent John Heilprin talks with World Vision International’s CEO and President, Kevin Jenkins ^cp  Chat with Kevin Jenkins - World Vision Internationalwww.livestream.com Chat with Kevin Jenkins - CEO and President of World Vision International at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.
Live Now at the World Economic Forum: How Immune Is India? http://wef.ch/live2 Use Twitter to participate in the discussion and tweet your thoughts to @VikramChandra #WEF ^ml
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