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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Syed Munir Khasru, Chairman, Institute for Policy, Advocacy and Governance After a bleak and unfinished ending to the Hanoi summit earlier this year, Donald Trump made a historic walk on June 30 as the first sitting US president to […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Douglas Broom, Senior Writer, Formative Content The sailing cargo ship Kwai docked in Honolulu last month after a 25-day voyage with 40 tonnes of fishing nets and consumer plastics aboard, gathered from what has become known as the Great […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Pierre Karam, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut What is the big problem you’re trying to solve? I am trying to develop a tiny thermometer. I know this might not sound very impressive at first, but the technology […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Chairperson of the Supervisory Board, Louis Dreyfus CompanyCamilla Colombo, Space researcher, Politecnico di Milano It is a paradox that the world’s biggest agricultural commodities companies rely on some of the sector’s smallest farmers, growing everything from […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Lamis Jomaa, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut What is the big problem you’re trying to solve? I am trying to explore the main causes and consequences of food insecurity on the nutritional status and overall health and […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Charlotte Edmond, Formative Content What does it take to be a stellar chief executive? Well, according to new research from Glassdoor, the best CEOs are those who surround themselves with a strong senior leadership team. Across five different countries […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Douglas Broom, Senior Writer, Formative Content Country children have better motor skills than city kids, which means they develop faster and could even enjoy greater equality in society, according to a new Finnish study. Academics at the University of […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Camilla Colombo, Space researcher, Politecnico di Milano Space debris Humans routinely send spacecraft into orbit to ensure services on the ground and to explore other planets. This extraordinary ability comes with a great responsibility: our space activity risks contaminating […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Charlotte Edmond, Formative Content Not all that long ago, China recycled for the world. Now it’s trying to tackle its own trash. With a population of 1.4 billion and no formal recycling system, the country generates mountains of […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Julien Weissenberg, Founder, Artificial Intelligence Scientist, VisualSense Back in the 1980s, Hans Moravec, an AI scientist, discovered a paradox: What is easy for humans, such as visual or auditory understanding, is hard for machines. Things have changed since then. […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Simon Torrance, Managing Director, FoundersLane As they are catapulted into the digital era, many businesses are crash-landing in a world they no longer recognize. At their helms are CEOs who have navigated choppy waters for decades and taken […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Nikhil Malhotra, Global head of innovation, Techmahindra From mobile phones to reusable rockets, today we live with inventions that were once considered science fiction. These innovations have also affected our general living standards over the last millennia; the […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Gaëlle Offranc Piret, Researcher, Inserm What is the big problem you’re trying to solve? How our brain works is still full of mystery and in the meantime it is very fragile and susceptible to diseases or accidents; treatments […]
What is the big problem you’re trying to solve? Batteries are an important component of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as they are powering the next generation of electric vehicles and mobile electronics. However, batteries are not often recycled, and they contain valuable materials that are scarce. As the adoption of electric vehicles rapidly expands, we […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Michelle Lau, CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network China The world looked very different in 1943, when the psychologist Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs” model was first published. The world was just in the early stages of realising the potential […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Francesca Bosco, Project Lead, Cyber-Resilience, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum & Rebekah Lewis, Project Lead, Governance and Policy, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum Throughout the world, unprecedented levels of innovation, interdependence and change call for strong and […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Robin Pomeroy, Journalist, World Economic Forum When a country or a company makes a promise to reduce carbon emissions, respect fishing quotas or cut toxic output, how can we be sure they’ll keep their word? The truth is, […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. As part of a series exploring the bold new frontiers of science, we caught up Yabebal Fantaye, an expert in cosmology at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, to find out why he dedicated his research to searching for […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Jesus Mantas, Global Head of Strategy and Offerings, IBM Global Business Services Human progress has been fueled by the development of tools, machines and technology that augment our natural capabilities. Yet our emotional brain – the part that […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Kate Lamb, Writer, World Economic Forum It’s globalization’s counterswing. After years of rising global connectivity, the anti-globalization blowback has manifested in the rise of techno-nationalism. But in such an interconnected and tech-driven world, can protectionist stances on technological […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Emily Glassberg Sands, Senior Director of Data Science, Coursera & Vinod Bakthavachalam, Senior Data Scientist, Coursera The Fourth Industrial Revolution is transforming the world of work. Technology is advancing faster than humans, disrupting both jobs and the skills needed […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum While there is profound opportunity to be captured in the new era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there will also be immense disruption across industries. For instance, in a little over a […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Emma Charlton, Senior Writer, Formative Content You won’t find many neater lawns than those Roger Federer and tennis stars from across the globe will play on over the next fortnight (July 1-14) at the All England Lawn Tennis […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Emma Charlton, Senior Writer, Formative Content There needs to be greater scrutiny of the use of artificial intelligence, according to a poll of 20,000 people across 27 countries. While the potential and power of AI to transform our lives is almost […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Jerica Reyes, President, St. Luke’s Molecular Medicine Society The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified non-communicable diseases(NCDs) as one of the major challenges in health for the 21st century. Now declared a global concern, their increasing prevalence is no […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Suphachai Chearavanont, Chief Executive Officer, CP Group Every company, government and individual, regardless of where they are based, is completely dependent on global value chains that seamlessly deliver goods and services around the world. Global supply chains touch […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Peter Vanham, Media Lead, US and Industries, World Economic Forum As a new generation rises through the ranks of companies and government, the CEO of Adecco and UAE Minister of Education found that leading them requires learning from […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Catherine Ong, Official Writer at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2019 Despite all the hype around 5G, nearly 90% of respondents in a poll by Channel News Asia knew very little or absolutely nothing about the […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Ma Jun, Chief Economist, People’s Bank of China Climate change is the battle of the century. According to a 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report, the global temperature rise will likely 1.5°C as early as 2030. We […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Ahmad bin Abdullah Humaid Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State for Higher Education and Advanced Skills, Ministry of Higher Education and Advanced Skills of the United Arab Emirates “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Alejandra Radl, Integration and Trade Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Fellow, Digital Trade, World Economic Forum & Jesse Lin, Project Specialist, Digital Trade, World Economic Forum International trade is of critical importance for economic and social development worldwide. A major […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Carsten Gerhardt, Partner, Chemicals practice, A.T. Kearney Meat is big business. According to analysis by A.T. Kearney, the global meat market was worth $1,000 billion in 2018, and this is set to grow. The World Economic Forum’s Alternative Proteins […]
This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer, National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence, Member of Friends of Ocean Action “I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause […]
