The 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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November 23rd, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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