Digital Communications
Digital safety: Applying human rights in the digital world
New Global Principles on digital safety are driving multistakeholder alignment and enabling positive behaviours and actions across the ecosystem.
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in September 1998. Since then, the company has grown to more than 70,000 employees worldwide, with a wide range of popular products and platforms like Search, Maps, Ads, Gmail, Android, Chrome and YouTube. In October 2015, Alphabet became the parent holding company of Google.
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Climate Change
Tackling the climate crisis with innovative green technologies
Through their collective power, global businesses working in the First Movers Coalition are making technologies of tomorrow commercially viable today.
Cities and Urbanization
Our Alliance is creating smart city governance
Led by the Forum, the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology Governance is the largest global initiative of its kind, promoting smart city governance
Future of Work
Closing the disability inclusion gap with business leadership
Our Valuable500 initiative helps companies close the disability inclusion gap by facilitating change to unlock business, social and economic value of the 1.3 billion people with disabilit...
Internet of Things
IoT security: How we are keeping consumers safe from cyber threats
A collaboration convened by the World Economic Forum has formed a global consensus for baseline IoT security measures to protect consumers.
Systemic Racism
How we are fighting systemic racism in the workplace
Eradicating systemic racism in the workplace requires new global standards for racial equity in business.
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Real Estate
The future of the office is changing: here’s how to improve the occupant experience
Businesses face the challenge of getting people back into offices post-pandemic. A new toolkit aims to help landlords understand the needs of their tenants.
Digital Communications
The case for a US and European trade and technology council
Karan Bhatia, Vice President of Government Affairs & Public Policy at Google explains why the US and EU should join to form a Trade and Technology Council.
Data Science
Will artificial intelligence make us healthier?
Podcasts
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A global coalition for digital safety
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Google (Alphabet) owned lab, DeepMind, to tackle deadly parasitic disease
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Google in landmark anti-trust deal
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Google: Doing our best work
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Salesforce’s Marc Benioff and YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki on the future of technology
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Google: Women's history month 2021
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Google's sustainability moonshot
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