World Economic Forum 2008

by GadgetManiac on January 30, 2008

WEF Global Risks 2008 reportThe World Economic Forum 2008 took place 23-27 January in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF is ambitiously “Committed to Improving the State of the World”, while their motto is the more ambiguous “Entrepreneurship in the global public interest’”.

Their agenda is extensive to say the least, with initiatives on hunger, global warming, disaster relief, energy shortages, poverty, development, competitiveness, global education and governance, health initiatives, disaster relief, monetary issues, tech access, corruption, water and world dialogue. …the proverbial full plate.

The WEF’s Global Risk Network recently issued their Global Risks 2008 report. The report forecasts the 23 top global risks likelihood with severity of economic loss. While the GR2008 report has the potential to be useful, ironically, the top collaborator on this report is listed as Citigroup, who is facing billions in writedowns due to its subprime losses and is thus reciprocally involved in risky management itself! The report certainly lacks credibility not only for that and other reasons (Swiss Re), but also because it seems to assign overly-high likelihoods of global disruption to things like nanotech dangers, hackers and pandemics.

A potentially more useful & interesting WEF report is entitled Technology Pioneers 2008.

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Stunaraid November 23, 2009 at 1:49 PM

interestinggggg :) ))……..

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James Kyl January 28, 2010 at 12:29 PM

Hey, This is a superb thread. I found you on bing. Keep up the work.

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FieldODreams August 29, 2011 at 5:14 AM

The Davos forums have to be among the most exclusive events anywhere — very ritzy.

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