Projects Engage in over 32 multistakeholder projects relating to the Platform’s priorities Enabling Trusted Information on Trade Facilitation and COVID-19 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... Explore project Common Trust Network 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... Explore project COVID-19 Workplace Commons: Keeping Workers Well 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 ... Explore project COVID-19 Vital Supply Chains: Food System Security 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... Explore project COVID Mobility Works 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... Explore project The Global COVID-19 Fintech Market Rapid Assessment 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... Explore project Mobilizing Hand Hygiene for All Initiative 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... Explore project Africa Growth Platform COVID-19 Small Business Support Network 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... Explore project Hour of Pride 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... Explore project COVID Social Sector Mobilization Platform 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. ... Explore project Arts & Culture Global Solidarity Network 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... Explore project Building Employee Trust in Vaccination Coalition 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... Explore project MFG.works: Community for Manufacturers, by Manufacturers 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... Explore project Implementing COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures in Africa 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. ... Explore project Covid 19:Resetting Africa for Resilient Future 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... Explore project Redesigning Trust: Blockchain, COVID-19 & Supply Chains of the Future 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 ... Explore project #WeAllMove: A universal open mobility match-making platform 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... Explore project Accelerating Digital Transformation for Long Term Growth Our VisionBusiness delivers for people, planet and prosperity, enabled by digital transformation and technologyOur ProgramThe Accelerating Digital Transformation for Long-Term Growth program, launched in May 2020, is ... Explore project COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund 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.... Explore project Global Shapers Response to COVID-19 Through the COVID-19 Steering Committee, the Global Shapers Community is training its members to develop local projects to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. For this the Steering Committee has created a project playbook... Explore project COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator 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... Explore project Digital Transportation for a Healthier City 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... Explore project West Africa Private Sector Coronavirus Platform (WAPSCON19) 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... Explore project Disruptive Technologies in Mental Health 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... Explore project COVID-19 Fallout Risks Initiative 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... Explore project 3D Printing COVID-19 Rapid Response Initiative 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... Explore project Power of Media 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... Explore project Advancing Global Digital Content Safety 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... Explore project Navigating Global Value Chain Disruption 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... Explore project Value in Media 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... Explore project Pandemic Supply Chain Network (PSCN) 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... Explore project Epidemic Big Data Resource and Analytics Innovation Network (EPI-BRAIN) 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 ... Explore project
Enabling Trusted Information on Trade Facilitation and COVID-19 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... Explore project
Common Trust Network 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... Explore project
COVID-19 Workplace Commons: Keeping Workers Well 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 ... Explore project
COVID-19 Vital Supply Chains: Food System Security 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... Explore project
COVID Mobility Works 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... Explore project
The Global COVID-19 Fintech Market Rapid Assessment 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... Explore project
Mobilizing Hand Hygiene for All Initiative 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... Explore project
Africa Growth Platform COVID-19 Small Business Support Network 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... Explore project
Hour of Pride 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... Explore project
COVID Social Sector Mobilization Platform 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. ... Explore project
Arts & Culture Global Solidarity Network 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... Explore project
Building Employee Trust in Vaccination Coalition 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... Explore project
MFG.works: Community for Manufacturers, by Manufacturers 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... Explore project
Implementing COVID-19 Public Health and Social Measures in Africa 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. ... Explore project
Covid 19:Resetting Africa for Resilient Future 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... Explore project
Redesigning Trust: Blockchain, COVID-19 & Supply Chains of the Future 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 ... Explore project
#WeAllMove: A universal open mobility match-making platform 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... Explore project
Accelerating Digital Transformation for Long Term Growth Our VisionBusiness delivers for people, planet and prosperity, enabled by digital transformation and technologyOur ProgramThe Accelerating Digital Transformation for Long-Term Growth program, launched in May 2020, is ... Explore project
COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund 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.... Explore project
Global Shapers Response to COVID-19 Through the COVID-19 Steering Committee, the Global Shapers Community is training its members to develop local projects to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. For this the Steering Committee has created a project playbook... Explore project
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator 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... Explore project
Digital Transportation for a Healthier City 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... Explore project
West Africa Private Sector Coronavirus Platform (WAPSCON19) 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... Explore project
Disruptive Technologies in Mental Health 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... Explore project
COVID-19 Fallout Risks Initiative 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... Explore project
3D Printing COVID-19 Rapid Response Initiative 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... Explore project
Power of Media 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... Explore project
Advancing Global Digital Content Safety 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... Explore project
Navigating Global Value Chain Disruption 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... Explore project
Value in Media 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... Explore project
Pandemic Supply Chain Network (PSCN) 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... Explore project
Epidemic Big Data Resource and Analytics Innovation Network (EPI-BRAIN) 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 ... Explore project