OUR DIGITAL WORLD: EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION

Mapping the Internet’s Uncharted Paths

The Internet is a globally shared resource with ever-increasing importance to and influence on society. Today, more than 3.9 billion people use the Internet...

Göran Marby

CEO and President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Harnessing the Fintech Revolution

Innovation drives progress by disrupting the status quo and forcing established players to raise their game. But innovation can also be destructive if it...

Agustín Carstens

Governor of the Bank of Mexico from 2010 to 2017

Preparing Europe for the Fifth Industrial Revolution

In the last three years, the European Union has been giving a fight for the future. It is a systematic effort of the European...

Eva Kaili

Member of the European Parliament in the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists

‘Digital’ – The New Normal

If we can sum up digital technology, innovation and disruption in one sentence then this will be Heraclitus’ old time truth that “The only...

Eva Maydell

Member of the European Parliament for Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria (GERB) since 2014.

Regulating the Disrupters

The leading tech giants – such as Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google – explicitly set out to disrupt much of the world’s industrial and...

Jean Tirole

The 2014 Nobel laureate in economics

Digital Disruption’s Silver Lining

Technology is often oversold as either a panacea for the world’s problems or an unshakeable curse inflicting disruption and displacement on the most vulnerable....

Mark Suzman

Chief Strategy Officer and President of Global Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Great Reconstruction

If the “Great Disruption” of 2018 is to be overcome, the world will need a new framework for global cooperation. After World War II,...

Klaus Schwab

Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum.

How People and Technology are Defining the Future of Work

In my roles as the CEO of Cogni, a lifestyle banking service, and the President of the think tank Le Jeunes du Monde, I’ve...

Archie Ravishankar

Founder and CEO of Cogni.

Doing Business in the Great Disruption

How should companies respond to the Great Disruption? When surveying the global backlash against the economic and political status quo, they must recognize that...

Mark Cliffe

Chief Economist and Head of Global Research of the ING Group.

Harnessing the Digital Revolution for Sustainable Development

Financial digitalization – the digital revolution’s system-level transformation of the entire financial ecosystem – could catalyze global efforts to finance sustainable development. According to...

Maria Ramos and Achim Steiner

Maria Ramos is CEO of Absa Group Limited. Achim Steiner is Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).