Global Redesign Initiative

The World Economic Forum was founded on the idea of bringing business together with its stakeholders in the belief that common challenges could only be solved together. In the forty years of the Forum’s history, those challenges – like the Forum itself – have become global.

Today, in the aftermath of the economic crisis, it’s clear that a return to “business as usual” is not enough. Increased global cooperation is vital for economic recovery and renewal, and in removing barriers the Forum to live up to its commitment to “improve the state of the world”.

The only way issues will be positively addressed and solutions put in place is through the involvement of business as a key stakeholder.

Global Redesign is the Forum’s challenge to its communities to help enhance that cooperation across sectors, industries, and disciplines.

It works as the intellectual fibre that networks the Forum’s communities, multiplying the impact of its activities and initiatives. In many respects, Global Redesign is just the networking of what the Forum already does.

The Global Redesign process is integrating the Forum’s diverse communities through a series of meetings and activities structured to promote integrated thinking and develop concrete proposals to update and upgrade structures of international cooperation in a wide range of areas.

	We capture inputs from industry working groups, initiatives and regional summits
	By feeding those inputs into our expert panels (Global Agenda Councils), which meet virtually and face-to-face in Dubai each November
	By using those expert insights to build the agenda for the Annual Meeting in Davos at the end of January, and using sessions there to test proposals
	Offering proposals to policymakers and business champions at a special meeting in Doha that will bring together policymakers with some of the key participants behind these new ideas
	Integrating the contributions into a more dynamic agenda development process, enabling the Forum to stay ahead of the curve in all its activities

Lord Malloch-Brown, Senior Advisor to the Global Redesign Initiative, explains the objectives and the purpose of the inititiave