Global Redesign Initiative

The Global Redesign Initiative (GRI) is a multistakeholder dialogue addressing the challenges of the 21st century. The interdisciplinary and cross-civilizational dialogue aims to develop recommendations to support the adaption, evolution and improvement of the structures and systems of international cooperation. The initiative was launched by the World Economic Forum in early 2009 under the patronage of the governments of Qatar, Singapore and Switzerland.

Among those contributing will be the Forum’s Network of Global Agenda Councils - over 1,000 experts representing more than 50 thematic areas of international cooperation (e.g. Water Security, Pandemics, Migration). An estimated 3,000 leaders drawn from across the World Economic Forum’s industry, governmental, civil society, academic and media communities will provide input into this process through their participation in GRI-related sessions during the Forum’s regional, global and community meetings during 2009-2010. These will be supplemented by "hearings" hosted by each of the patron governments.

Through the course of these activities and events, including the Annual Meeting of the New Champions in the People’s Republic of China, the annual Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, experts and leaders from different regions, intellectual disciplines and stakeholder groups will have an unparalleled opportunity to collaborate. Much of the dialogue and collaboration will take place on WELCOM, which is the Forum’s new online collaboration and communication space, as well as through social and global media.

The connections and contributions emerging from this process will form part of the effort to support major renovation of the structures and the underlying ecosystem of international cooperation. By widening the focus of debate beyond the current G20 agenda of financial stability and macroeconomic stimulus, the Forum hopes to encourage the international community to take more pre-emptive and coordinated action on a wide range of risks that have been accumulating in the international system. The objective is to spur a greater degree of commitment on the part of all stakeholders to improve the state of the world.