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Social Innovation/Sustainable Development/SDGs – How collaborations with social entrepreneurs are helping to make the SDGs a reality (Kristine Pearson, Colin McElwee, WEF)

Social innovators are tackling some of the world’s greatest threats – and by working more collaboratively, are shifting the entire landscape of the...

Clean Energy Investment/Developing Economies – 5 ways to boost clean energy investment in developing economies (Bradley Handler, Morgan Bazilian, Michael Hayes, WEF)

Achieving a net-zero energy future in developing economies is going to require trillions of dollars of private investment. Many obstacles remain in the...

Future of Work – Towards healthier, more efficient buildings post-pandemic (Sarah Golden, WEF)

The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in changes making working environments safer and more efficient. Demand for healthy building services surged during the pandemic,...

Global Health – Humans may have suffered a large coronavirus outbreak before Covid. Here’s what our DNA can tell us (Yassine Souilmi, Ray Tobler,...

A coronavirus may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago. New research has found evidence of genetic adaptation to the...

GCC Region – How industrialisation could future-proof MENA’s Gulf economies (Alexandre Raffoul, Fatima Al Zahra Hewaidi, WEF)

Encouraging industrial innovation has bolstered recent efforts to diversify the economies of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, say local business leaders. They...

Cybersecurity – Why we need a global framework to regulate harm online (Cathy Li, Farah Lalani, WEF)

Digital platforms used by billions of people around the world are being misused to cause harm and endanger people. Urgent areas of concern,...

Digital Safey – Advancing Digital Safety: A Framework to Align Global Action (WEF)

This White Paper distils a user-centric framework for advancing digital safety. It explores tensions regarding privacy, free expression, innovation, business incentives, private power and...

TechInnovation – ShipBob nabs $200M at a $1B+ valuation to help e-commerce companies run logistics like Amazon’s (Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch)

E-commerce saw a massive surge of activity and growth in 2020; and while we may hear a lot about how big companies like Amazon...

TechInnovation – Ghana’s Jetstream lands $3M to build the digital infrastructure for Africa’s trade corridors (Tage Kene-Okafor, TechCrunch)

The share of exports from Africa to the rest of the world ranged from 80% to 90% between 2000 and 2017. This has created a...

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