2024 World Economic Forum Davos Meeting to Focus on “Restoring Trust”
18 hours agoEric Worrall67 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall
Would you ever trust a group with green champions like Al Gore and EU Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on its board of trustees?
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
DAVOS-KLOSTERS, SWITZERLAND
15–19 January 2024
Overview
People, societies and companies face the reality of a world in transformation. In addition to the seemingly endless supply of shocks, with the tragic violence in the Middle East being the most recent, deep structural shifts are clearly afoot from geoeconomics to climate change to artificial intelligence. Given this level of uncertainty and the high stakes involved, there is a clear need to move past the diagnosis of challenges firmly towards solutions.
With trust eroding, long-term visions may be too abstract to rally around, while merely focusing on responses to current shocks will leave everyone vulnerable to the transformations at hand. What is needed are new and upgraded platforms for dialogue, stronger partnerships, agile policy frameworks and effective deployment of technologies that can lead to practical and implementable gains for societies across both short-term and strategic horizons.
The theme
Against this backdrop and to instil a measure of collective agency, it is necessary to start restoring trust at three fundamental levels: into the future, within societies and among nations. Therefore, the 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will convene under the theme Rebuilding Trust to provide the crucial space to step back and focus on the fundamental principles driving trust, including transparency, consistency and accountability.
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https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/about/The WEF is of course are the architect of their own PR disaster.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/11/2024-world-economic-forum-davos-meeting-to-focus-on-restoring-trust/
