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Emerging Technologies
Emerging technologies are reshaping financial services. Here's how
A new report from the World Economic Forum explores how emerging technology clusters are changing the financial services industry. Here are three examples.
The Great Reset
'Greed is Dead': this week's Great Reset podcast
Oxford economist John Kay tells the podcast why now is the time for companies and individuals to ditch the 1980s ethos and behave less selfishly,
Artificial Intelligence
AI is here. This is how it can benefit everyone
AI can improve lives, but to avoid issues such as accuracy, human control, transparency, bias and privacy challenges, its use needs to be carefully and ethically managed.
Africa
How can Africa succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
It's vital that young people are offered the tools to be successful in a digital-first economy, writes the African Development Bank’s Hanan Morsy.
Artificial Intelligence
Towards Responsible #AIforAll in India
India is striving to balance innovation and regulation of artificial intelligence. Responsible #AIforAll will put ethical AI principles into practice.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Liftoff: Japan's ambitious flying-car plan
The Japanese government is investing in flying cars, with the aim of commercializing the mode of transport as soon as 2023, the Japan Times reports.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
How digitization and innovation can make the post-COVID world a better place
There is huge potential for digitization and innovation to add value to society and to contribute to public health, the environment, and biodiversity.
Future of Computing
Turbocharging scientific discovery: with bits, neurons, qubits – and collaboration
Through public-private partnerships, the world can embrace quantum computing to accelerate material discovery and address our most pressing challenges.
Insurance
Why COVID-19 makes inclusion a strategic imperative for business
COVID-19 is a threshold moment in the alignment of words with deeds. Stakeholder capitalism and sustainable finance are gathering steam - are you on board?
Artificial Intelligence
How AI can accelerate the search for treatments for emerging and intractable diseases
Artificial intelligence (AI) models and algorithms can save time and money in the search for drug candidates for emerging diseases, including COVID-19.
Cybersecurity
COVID-19 has disrupted cybersecurity, too – here's how businesses can decrease their risk
COVID-19 is accelerating digitisation – and increasing risk of cyberattacks. Businesses should take a systemic approach to cybersecurity in three phases.
Artificial Intelligence
3 ways COVID-19 is transforming advanced analytics and AI
The crisis required solutions in days, not weeks or months, requiring new approaches to AI models and technologies.
The Great Reset
The Great Reset requires FinTechs – and FinTechs require a common approach to cybersecurity
The Great Reset requires FinTechs – and FinTechs require a common approach to cybersecurity controls. Here are recommendations on where they can start.
Artificial Intelligence
Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe
Men in medium and high-skill occupations disproportionately benefit from robotization, especially in countries where gender inequality was already severe.
The Great Reset
Klaus Schwab's vision of a post-COVID world, and how the economy can work with nature - Great Reset podcast
World Economic Forum Founder Klaus Schwab's book on the Great Reset; and a report that shows how working with nature can deliver millions of jobs.