Projects

This initiative is centered around the COVID-19 Trade Facilitation Repository, which is a joint effort to consolidate information, actions and initiatives adopted by key stakeholders to facilitate trade during the COV...

As countries around the world work to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and restart their economies, they all face the challenge of how to reopen their borders and allow travel and commerce to resume while protecting the...

SummaryThe COVID-19 Workplace Commons: Keeping Workers Well initiative leverages the World Economic Forum’s platform, networks and global convening ability to collect, refine and share best practices for returning to ...

WBCSD is convening this collective action platform for business to provide knowledge, tools, guidance and to address priority risks exacerbated by COVID-19 and ensure that learnings from the crisis help to minimise di...

The ChallengeCOVID-19 interrupted the status quo of mobility practices worldwide. To accommodate for the changing norms caused by the pandemic, mobility operators and service providers enhanced, altered, stopped, repu...

In collaboration with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge and the World Bank Group, the Forum has launched a survey to understand the impact of COVID-19 on fintech markets, the resp...

Context:Improving the WASH sector’s resilience to absorb the shock of the primary and immediate socio-economic impacts caused by COVID-19 is critical now but also for the future. Currently 3 billion people – 40% of th...

The Africa Growth Platform (AGP) was born out of the realization and acknowledgement of the vulnerability of small businesses in Africa. MSMEs are the bedrock of African economies accounting for up to 80% of employmen...

COVID-19 is disrupting all parts of the workplace, including how workplaces support their diverse and inclusive cultures remotely. Organizational and brand commitments to LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion are being put to t...

Context As the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, the World Economic Forum has been charged by the World Health Organization to accelerate multi-stakeholder action to help combat coronavirus.  ...

Culture is at the heart of our lives and society.  The culture sector — an engine for content that shapes our imagination and the narratives of our lives — has been significantly affected. As the unimaginable has beco...

The ChallengePublic hesitancy towards vaccination is growing with WHO naming it one of the Top 10 Threats to Global Health in 2019.Resistance to vaccination poses a major threat, not only to public health, but to busi...

 MFG.works is a global open portal launched by leading organizations engaged in the Platform for Shaping the Future of Advanced Manufacturing and Production at the World Economic Forum.In response to the current pande...

    The challenge Public health and social measures (PHSMs) that encourage physical distancing, such as school closures, business closures and stay-at-home orders, have contributed to limiting the spread of COVID-19. ...

Covid-19 is the leadership challenge of the century and is an exceptional opportunity for Africa to reset many aspects of its health, economic management and public sector priorities and decision-making systems.  It p...

COVID-19 has highlighted critical gaps and weaknesses in global supply chains. Blockchain technology may offer opportunities to increase trust & transparency -- but it's not a silver bullet. Rather, it is part of ...

COVID-19 abrupted our ability to move, with a third of world’s population in lockdown. While mobility services should prioritize the movement of essential workers, the task is not all that simple due to gaps in inform...

ContextAmidst the unprecedented disruption of COVID-19, there is urgent need for effective and scalable technology solutions to:Address immediate health needs (e.g. virtual medicine, e-biomarkers and e-diagnosis, inte...

As the International Organization for Public-private Cooperation, the World Economic, acting as partner to the World Health Organization, is mobilizing all stakeholders to protect lives and livelihoods amid the COVID-...

On 11 March 2020, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that COVID-19 was a pandemic. The World Economic Forum, acting as a partner to WHO supports the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund....

The Global Shapers Community is training its members to build knowledge on COVID-19 through virtual sessions and online learning by the World Health Organization (WHO). The goal is to mobilise the community to: Amplif...

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will coordinate R&D efforts and remove barriers to drug development and scale-up to address the epidemic    The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator will play a catalytic role b...

The global outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic presents huge challenge to all sectors, including both traditional and digital transportation. Meanwhile the huge amount of big data generated from the digital transportation a...

  Context: the world is facing a truly unprecedented situation. The global Coronavirus pandemic has reached and affected different aspects of life in Asia, Europe and the Americas. As time passes, we are also seeing t...

Joint collaboration between Global Future Council on Mobility (GFC on Mobility), Global New Mobility Coalition (GNMC), and Inclusivity Quotient:Background: COVID19 is a stress test to the resiliency, sustainability, a...

SummaryManaging Epidemics with Consumer Wearables aims to establish an ethical approach for public health stakeholders to respond to pandemics using insights derived from consumer wearable devices.The ChallengeUsing b...

As COVID-19 forces us to consider a "new normal," the nature of work will change and employee wellbeing and mental health will become more critical. Isolation and loneliness threaten some; blurred boundaries between w...

The global community agrees that mental health needs urgent addressing. And with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, technological solutions for managing mental health for people in isolation bring great promise.The Lancet...

The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly changed the global business landscape. The immediate implications of the pandemic are manifesting by the day. However, its economic, environmental, societal and technological consequences...

3D Printing manufacturers are committed to supporting a united front to address shortages and rising demand triggered by COVID-19 to better help efforts that protect the lives of those impacted by this global pandemic...

In collaboration with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and with support from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the World Economic Forum has established the Financial Services Response Network to expl...

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, an international task force of designers, engineers, medical professionals, and military experts have joined forces to launch CURA, an open-source project aimed at capacity building in in...

Global media platforms, with access to over 3.8 billion people consuming their content daily, have unique opportunities to leverage their scale for positive societal impact. From the way technology is designed and use...

Advancing Global Digital Content Safety is a project focusing on solutions to tackle the spread of harmful content online. Online content has the power to influence minds, incite action, and shape the fabric of societ...

Goal: Support companies and governments in navigating global value chain disruption from COVID-19 and mega trends to successfully reconfigure global value chains delivering value to all stakeholdersGlobal Value Chains...

Value in Media is an ongoing exploration of how production, distribution and consumption are changing in the media and entertainment industry.The starting assumption for the initiative is that technology has fundament...

Launched at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, the mission of the Pandemic Supply Chain Network is to create and manage a market network allowing for WHO and private sector partners to access any supply c...

Outbreaks are inevitable, however, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is possible – if we act collectively – to mitigate the impact of outbreaks by harnessing AI and epidemic intelligence to predict and forecast ...