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Global Shapers: Meet the London hub

Still a lot to learn

Global Shapers: A year of youth empowerment

Shaping the debate on Swiss foreign policy

17 million lives, one child at a time

Ideas for change: a charter for compassion

Doris Leuthard: Is Switzerland sustainable?

Do policy-makers run the risk of underestimating trade?

Olympics 2012: Inspiring a lost generation

International Youth Day: the global challenge of unemployment

Going Back to School

An Olympic win for Saudi women

What if “whatever it takes” isn’t enough for the Euro?

Ideas for change: open source R&D

Creating a green economy in Tunisia

Can the WTO still change the rules of trade?

Social entrepreneurs at Harvard

Translating entrepreneurship into job creation in Tunisia

What’s so bad about protectionism?

Reforming Tunisia’s education sector

The top five hacker headaches

Closing the Gender Gap in Silicon Valley – and Everywhere

Education, entrepreneurship and energy – the three “E”s to job creation in Tunisia

Best Buy For Education: Deworm the World transforming millions of children’s lives in India

Ideas for change: social business

Is free trade enabling cyber crime?

Bracing for impact: earthquakes and risk reduction

Ideas for change: your environmental handprint

Five ways to tackle the world’s wicked problems

Can you speak human?

What running a jazz band can teach you about leadership

Why presenteeism doesn’t work

Ideas for change: Where are the jobs going to come from?

Is the profit motive compatible with social innovation?

Tackling the torrent of illicit trade

India and Pakistan: forging new relationships on the catwalks of New Delhi

A young solution to youth unemployment

Tapping local innovation

Ideas for change: sustainable health systems

Invest in family planning, escape poverty

World Population Day 2012: 7 billion and counting

Design and innovation: catalysts for change

Can we invent a better future?

International Monetary System: How long will the dollar dominate?

Rio+20: Are we looking for leadership in the wrong place?

Are we losing a generation to unemployment?

Dollar by default – The state of the international monetary system

The Bad, the Good and the Next Steps for the Private Sector post Rio

To shape a Shaper: Reflections on the World Economic Forum on East Asia

Modernizing Global Governance

Pathways to transformation: Annual report of the Global Agenda Councils

What will the university of the future look like?

Food security in Africa is more than just a dream

What I learned from Aung San Suu Kyi

The challenges of Rio+20

Ranking: The top most competitive economies in Europe (2012)

Behind all good leadership is good governance

Rio+20: What has changed in 20 years?

Where have all the truck drivers gone?

Why opening up Rio+20 works

Can we build better supply chains?

Rio+20: It’s a matter of life and death

Five things the G20 should do to fight corruption

Keeping it clean: the vital role of water and sanitation

President Calderon: Green Growth public private partnerships

Why G20 is also business’ business

Closing the green investment gap

The G20 needs to become the M20

Green Growth – innovating with new and energy-efficient solutions

Open data systems: a collective response to a collective problem

Water: managing the world’s most precious resource

Is it time to stop fossil fuel subsidies?

Open data is needed to enable sustainable development

Unleash Europe’s digital revolution to kick-start growth

Getting to Zero: A sustainable approach to poverty reduction

Tackling climate change: private sector involvement is essential

What if a hacker caused a large-scale Internet outage?

Getting big data in shape for the development marathon (part 2)

Getting big data in shape for the development marathon (part 1)

The next steps to green, free trade

The role of government in a crowdsourcing world

Green jobs for a growing world

Growing the green agenda at the Mexican G20

The importance of governance: a new guidebook for social entrepreneurs

Seafood supply chains: no more fishy business

Ashraf Khalil: Tunis-Envy

Can capitalism save ocean conservation?

What social entrepreneurs can learn from Aung San Suu Kyi

What if illicit trade goes unchecked?

Growth and austerity: a complex policy mix

Beyond boundaries: collaborative approaches to social protection

Finding a sustainable solution to youth suicide

How best to tackle the youth unemployment crisis?

Philosophy and policy for digital media

What if women made up half of the world’s decision makers?

When Hogwarts came to Harvard

Aristotle had the answers…

How to build a more competitive Europe

Transforming Mauritius into a “blue” economy

A New Energy Architecture for Turkey

What if there were no more coral reefs?

Caught offside: tackling the youth employment crisis

Time for a Middle East communications revolution

Watch the World Economic Forum on the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia 2012 Live

Employing the Future of the Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia

Trust and legitimacy: The Intel™ chip of societies?

No exit?

Food and nutrition security

Turkey: A Middle East role model

Finding Global Happiness

The Talent Ecosystem in the Human Age

Finding the Key to Resolve the Middle East-North Africa Job Crisis

Ensuring child-safe tourism in Asia

The Blossoming of Doi Tung

What’s connectivity without power?

Shaping Japan’s new tomorrow

Dispatch from Paris

East Asia steers a course through future risks

Paradise reclaimed

What if the Internet collapsed?

Rio+20 Conference Backgrounder

Educating the next East Asian generation for success

Preserving architectural history in Taiwan

An economic revolution driven by microentrepreneurs

Capitalism: A means, not an end

Thailand is the kitchen of the world

Gerald Lawless on Shaping East Asia

Creative Asia

Balancing the world through inclusive growth

Is Asia’s talent falling through the cracks?

GSIF 2012: Where Ideas Meet Reality

Together, boosting the benefits of Asian tourism

Using mobile technologies to tackle illicit trade in East Asia

Watch the World Economic Forum on East Asia live

Energy across borders

Where does ‘True North’ on Sustainable Business lie for Rio+20 and Beyond?

East Asia 2012: joining the conversation

A good education can be found at home

Future cities: sustainable and resilient

Waking up to the threat of natural disasters

Shaping East Asia

Goals for getting to zero on extreme poverty

mHealth: an idea whose time has come

A sustainable response to the global financial crisis?

Freedom to travel: opening markets by opening borders

How to Kick-start Your Business Idea

India: Learning to Read with Karaoke

Finding growth opportunities in trade

What if globalisation went into reverse?

Assessing the openness of borders

What if there was a global cyber pandemic?

Lessons from the crisis: a conversation with Jean-Claude Trichet

Thailand braces for a data storm

A brave new world, a brave chicken

In Personal Data We Trust?

What about including women in Africa’s transformation

Unlocking Africa’s potential

Personal data needs clear trading rules

What if oil hit $200 a barrel?

A Shared Agenda to Grow Africa

Homo Economicus vs. Homo Reciprocans

The sustainable future of the automobile

The road to Africa 2022

Mastering the Art of Data Complexity

Connect earth and the ether for our green revolution

Rebranding agriculture: Isn’t agriculture cool?

Can Social Technology Help “Reinvent Business”?

The Future of Universities

Africa’s Transformation is already well under way

Hand Outs to Handshakes

Start with “why”… in education!

“Heeling” the world one step at a time

African Social Entrepreneurs 2012

Jobs, justice and equity

Forget the usual tired debates about Africa, it’s changing – for the better

Managing Climate Risks and Disasters in Africa: Is there a Business Opportunity?

Building a pan-African literary agency for children

Balancing economic growth with true sustainability

Can Ethiopia rise to its next big challenge?

Supporting sustainable development through mutual capitalism

Lexicon of health care for Africa: M is for mobility, T is for transport

Africa, the continent of opportunity

Whirlwinds of change

Follow the World Economic Forum on Africa Live

One change, one year, one Africa

Doing development differently

Women leading the way to a new Africa

What if global institutions fail?

Racing towards rights for the disabled in Nigeria

Conserve what we love

African potential – it’s time to “Grow Africa”

Finding a solution for Africa’s energy gap

Africa is a continent of opportunities

What if frustrated young people see no alternative to terrorism?

2022: A Tipping Point for Africa?

Generating job creation in India

Can entrepreneurs transform Africa’s brand?

Small is beautiful: Materials by design

Tackling youth unemployment in rural India

Tackling youth unemployment online

What if unemployment threatens our democratic way of life?

What if there was a catastrophic volcanic eruption?

Entrepreneurs talk mission drift, social impact and preventing burnout

Can the world afford to go green?

Defining the next generation of Latin American leadership

The new movers and shapers: How a millennial generation came of age

“Hola Mexico” – Day 2 of the YGL Annual Summit

5 ways to encourage a clean energy economy

The Twenty-Two

Being optimistic about non-communicable diseases

One Year One Change

Why making stuff matters

The President and the Pandemic

Difficult choices: Energy transition needs pragmatism

What if China turned its back on the world?

Smart phones, smart farming

Robotics in medical care

Managing catastrophic risks

New frontiers: optogenetics

Persuasive gaming

Augmented reality

Japan’s energy challenge: from sustainability to survivability

Does America still want to lead the world?

Health in the Americas: maximizing impact through collaboration

Real justice: Civic engagement and Mexico’s justice system

What we need to know about Canada’s energy riches

Sports as a tool for social change

The road to reform

The Latin America social entrepreneurs of the year

The End of Capitalism – So What’s Next?

Latin America: Ready for new models

What are Latin American leaders doing to tackle corruption?

Using artistic expression to make an impact

Emerging ideas to emerging economies

Entrepreneurial revolution? Or redefinition?

Advancing sustainable solutions in Latin America

Attention span in a complex world

Video: Closing Mexico’s gender gap

Can Latin America feed the world?

Turning ideas into action

Watch the World Economic Forum on Latin America Live

What if the American middle class loses hope?

The educational crisis in Latin America: Collaboration is key

Empowering youth

Why complexity is a good thing for meeting global energy goals

Overcoming Latin American rivalries

Why Latin America needs to transform early childhood education

Can Latin America balance economic reform with sustainable growth?

Leadership summit on social enterprise and impact investing in Latin America

What if security as we know it breaks down?

The truth about energy efficiency

Listening to transformation

“Hola Mexico” – Day 1 of the YGL Annual Summit

Sally Blount: Educating Latin America’s next generation

Is India dealing with its 95% increase in energy demand ?

What if there was a cold war between the US and China?

How does creative transformation work?

Finding the right balance on natural gas

From Borges to Paz

What if we fail to adapt to the new era of scarcity?

How can we make old age a blessing, not a burden?

What if we fail to provide for our ageing population?

Tech Tuesday on Spring Break

How mobile broadband will change the world

Five recommendations to manage population ageing

Measuring network readiness

Behind the hype of hyperconnectivity

Improving technology one report at a time

Squatters no more: legitimizing Brazil’s favelas

Ask a Leader in Latin America: Your link to leadership

Modest Expectations for BRICS Leadership

An entrepreneurial society

BRICS Nations Ready for Global Leadership

Building BRICS in New Delhi

Kony 2012: Rethinking Global Problem Solving

Is a BRICS Development Bank on the cards in Delhi?

Crumbling BRICS

BRICS: The “S” for South Africa represents the rising “A” for Africa

Kony, government and crowdsourcing

What if the Arab Spring turns into an African Summer?

How engineered micro-organisms could one day power the world

Deworming to stay in school

Tech Tuesday: Predicting Type 2 diabetes

What if we went back to the year 2000?

Tiny seedlings to tall trees: 20 years of IPÊ

What is the future for Russia’s economy?

Who should keep the Internet safe?

What if the unemployment time bomb explodes?

Isaac Durojaiye

World Water Day: The world is thirsty because we are hungry

Raising water awareness to avert a future crisis

Tech Tuesday: Today’s schools rely more and more on video games

Facilitating social investments: help shape legislation!

Handling the humanity of leadership

The cost of interdependence

Gallery: The Closing Bell NYSE

What can we learn from the 2011 Japan earthquake?

Should we worry about bad weather in space?

A guidebook to corporate governance of social enterprises

Securing the longevity dividend

Balancing a career in macro-economics with bringing up twins

How to replace the 7.5 million US jobs lost during the recession?

Why can’t a woman be more like a man?

Why we need more women leaders

Closing the gender gap case by case

Measuring the success of gender equality

Prisoners, patience and women in leadership

Welcome to the Young Global Leaders Class of 2012

Tech Tuesday: Renewable oil for food, health sciences and fuels

How to make green growth a reality

Balancing out the corporate world

Bringing growth to Brazilian shores

From Downton Abbey to Davos

How to fuel China’s growth

Fuelling South Korea’s transformation

Women, water and the ugly global crisis we’re not talking about

Translating energy into lasting prosperity

How to encourage India-Pakistan trade

Tech Tuesday: Electric motors in car wheels

Is a sustainable manufacturing industry economically viable?

Why energy has remained stable during the Second Great Contraction

When leadership is in our way

Reducing the cost of LED bulbs

A major step towards recognition of Cairo’s garbage collectors

Tech Tuesday: Mapping city gas leaks

Africa 3.0

Why blame capitalism?

My top ten beliefs as a social entrepreneur

Looking for trust in all the wrong places

What is the point of faster economic growth?

Dispatch from Davos: leverage

The top 10 emerging technologies for 2012

Tech Tuesday: Taking data analysis to another level

How Africa is escaping the debt trap

Another Davos Experience: Occupy Davos

The future of the manufacturing industry

David Agus: Why we must embrace genetics

Data to decisions

Big Data, big opportunities for development

The five bad habits of healthcare

Tech Tuesday: Encrypting online commence

Tuning in to more than corporate performance

Davos 2012 in the news

Reflections from Davos

The human in human concerns

Hyperconnectivity: the buzz word at Davos

Why capitalism is like a broken down car

World Economic Forum on Latin America 2012

The game plan

Preventing the preventable in a new era of health

From development to growth: finding value in time

Twitter is very popular at Davos

Impact Investing: how do we harness the hype?

Davos 2012: Business needs to build trust

World Economic Forum and Harvard launch Global Conflict Management Curriculum

How do we move toward “Shaping New Models”?

Jeff Jarvis: This is a time of incredible disruption

Mashable’s Pete Cashmore: Companies need to sound like human beings

Reaching the hundreds of millions of children not in schools

Davos 2012: Personal, corporate and societal responsibility

Creating shared value

Davos Daily: Measuring Carbon Emissions in Davos

Information and technology will transform healthcare

Economics or Science?

Christine Lagarde’s advice to a high school student

Ending mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015

Innovative solutions required to fight the dark side of commerce

Dispatch from Davos: the power of collective impact

Unilever’s Keith Weed: Moving beyond corporate social responsibility

Luis Alvarez: Transformphilia

The Dynamic Trio

Water Resources Group: A new model for water sector transformation

Ben Verwaayen: Be vocal about diversity

Smart investments in people and communities is vital during this time of change

We need to put education on the global agenda

Times have changed for leadership

The arrival of the South: Does access mean influence?

Infosys’ S. D. Shibulal: Time to reverse the Domino Effect

Why Tech Start-Ups Can Change the Landscape of Fundraising

Making the Business Case for Conservation

Davos 2012: don’t allow health care costs to bankrupt your country

Scale of Replication

Desmond Tutu: A message to men and boys

Crown Princess of Norway on her favourite Davos moment

Toward a common purpose

Transforming agriculture to feed the world

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and Wendy Kopp discuss social entrepreneurship

Davos 2012: Put jobs centre stage

Tomorrow’s healthcare will need courage and collaboration

Financing green growth: breakthroughs under development

How can we value potential to create growth?

A real transformation – now!

Being a leader in this great transformation

Global population ageing: peril or promise?

Davos 2012: The year for collective action?

Smart resource management: good for nature, people and business

Teaming up to fund vaccines

Qiagen’s Peer Schatz: five steps towards solving the global health crisis

Social Entrepreneurs in positive moods as Annual Meeting kicks off

Why I disagree with Professor Porter

Davos Daily: There’s a reason it’s called “Venture” capital

Advice from the young to the old

Cities in transformation- toward an intelligent future

Opportunity in uncertainty

A banker’s dream

The power of social innovation

In Search of My Davos Moment

More with Less: Will consumers buy it?

Davos 2012: Transforming the global healthcare landscape

It takes a team to win a game

Davos: The figures

Preventing stretched supply chains from snapping under pressure

Davos Daily: Big Data, privacy and the huge opportunity in the monetization of trust

Davos 2012: The bottom up transformation

Desmond Tutu: Time to close the gap

From Dalian to Davos: a tale of two cities

Rob Wainwright: Cybercriminals’ main commodity is personal data

Davos 2012: Business must be part of the solution

Collective vigilance is the new careful

Erik Berglof: The Call to Action is overdue

Tech Pioneers Gearing Up for Davos

Peter Bakker: It’s time to prioritize and scale-up sustainable solutions

Unilever’s Keith Weed: ‘We have to find sustainable solutions’

Transformation in education

A Green Thread to this Year’s Davos

Davos 2012: Decoding the data deluge

A “new model” for engaging North Korea

Inequality occupying the minds of Davos

Fixing the weakest link in supply chain and transport networks

Transparency International’s Huguette Labelle: can people fight corruption?

Infosys’ S. D. Shibulal: What my 17 year-old son taught me about business

Global institutions ineffective amid the rise of regionalism

The World’s Poor: An Economic Opportunity

Going to Davos

Davos 2012: beyond the food-energy-water nexus

Davos 2012: beating the burnout

Sifting headlines and undercurrents

The Great Transformation in Davos: New models to address old challenges

Stay Involved During the Annual Meeting

Play Today, Lead Tomorrow

A greener Davos under the snow

Michael Wolf: Revisiting architectural photography

Jan De Vliegher: A tribute to painting

Drue Kataoka: Knowledge and justice, tradition and revolution

Massimo Lunardon: They come to help us

Call to Action is only the beginning – Marco Magnani

Claudy Jongstra: Organic art

Setting the scene for a new climate regime – building trust and honouring commitments

The Call for Action is timely and well-judged

A Call to Action

Davos 2012: is the world fit for purpose?

Sheryl Sandberg interview: “Wisdom of friends will replace wisdom of crowds”

Will 2012 be the make-or-break year for the Euro?

How do we create more jobs for young people?

Davos 2012: Europe must open its jaws

Social Entrepreneurs en route to Davos

Davos 2012: Managing migration for the benefit of all

Sustainability’s Cinderella – us!

Davos 2012 Preview: Jock Mendoza-Wilson

Structured collaboration – how the Forum helps develop new ideas

Solve Hunger? Save Soil

Supplying the future in the absence of alchemy

Global Risks 2012: What if there was no more space in space?

One Year After the Tunisian Revolution

Global Risks 2012: What if antibiotics stopped working?

Global Risks 2012: What if a supervolcano erupted?

Shaping the future of Haiti in Davos

Global Risks 2012: Interview with Oliver Wyman Group’s John Drzik

Global Risks 2012: Interview with Zurich Financial Services’ Axel Lehman

Global Risks 2012: Interview with Swiss Re’s David Cole

Global Risks 2012: Interview with the Wharton Risk Center’s Erwann Michel-Kerjan

Video: Global Risks 2012

2012 shall be the year of the Heroes of Social Entrepreneurship

The failure of governance in a hyperconnected world

Global Risks 2012: threats to the gains of globalisation

Affordable Housing – a win-win opportunity for low-income Indian families

Tech Tuesday: On future cities

Global Risks 2012: a glimpse at the perils threatening our world

Ask a Leader: Your Link to Leadership

Aerial views of Davos

Making sense of Davos

The Hillary Effect

Central America’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2011

New Year, New Promises

Tech Tuesday: Back from Christmas break…

Welcome to the new Forum:Blog

Life without Trucks

Top 10 IdeasLabs for 2011

Tech Tuesday: How to showcase your project to get funding

End of the Year Fireworks – Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2011 selected in Israel, France, Switzerland, Germany and Central America

Open Forum 2012, your ticket to Davos

The Global Agenda Councils in action, a year of accomplishments

The common denominator – Exchanging experience in Social Entrepreneurship

Reaping the benefits of tourism, the African story

Biological weapons, countering the threat

Swiss Social Entrepreneurs of the Year 2011

Tech Tuesday: Renewable fuel from sunlight, waste CO2 and non-potable water

The Durban Deal: Time for Private Sector Leadership?

2012: A Critical Juncture for Global Governance

A Green Investment Revolution?

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