The Global Gender Gap Report 2014
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Through the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their progress over time. While no single measure can capture the complete situation, the Global Gender Gap Index presented in this Report seeks to measure one important aspect of gender equality: the relative gaps between women and men across four key areas: health, education, economy and politics.
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How learning through play as a child can help you succeed as an adult
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
As our economy and job market face rapid shifts, further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to learn new skills and adapt to new enterprises is critical for workers and businesses alike. Gartner research found that the number of skills required for a single job is increasing by 10% per year and 85% of companies recently surveyed by McKinsey said they had accelerated digitisation.
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5 milestones in green energy
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Energy accounts for two-thirds of total greenhouse gas, so embracing cleaner sources is key to fighting climate change.
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How slowing down the cashless frenzy could ensure a more inclusive society in East Asia
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Cash-free payment methods have become life-changing for many in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. However, people around the world disagree on what the superior method of payment is, and it seems to be a subjective thing. In East Asia, there are also distinct national trends.
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The hidden downside to ocean data and how to make it more sustainable
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Scientists and planners are increasingly turning to digital technology to save the ocean. Data is needed to map and monitor ocean conditions, assess the impacts of climate change, warn about ocean-related natural disasters, and manage the ocean’s valuable economic and ecological resources.
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Why philanthropy needs to prepare itself for a world powered by AI
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Originally published by Philanthropy on 30 March 2021
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Why COVID-19 government support needs to be tailored and targeted
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
The race to vaccinate against COVID-19 continues, but the pace of inoculation varies widely across countries, with access unavailable to many. Global cooperation must be stepped up to produce and distribute vaccines to all countries at affordable costs. The sooner vaccinations curb the pandemic, the faster economies can return to normal.
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Run out of milk? Robots on call for Singapore home deliveries
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Hoping to capitalise on a surge in demand for home deliveries, a Singapore technology company has deployed a pair of robots to bring residents their groceries in one part of the city state.
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This is how human activity has affected marine species over time
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Researchers have created the first global assessment of cumulative human impacts to at-risk marine species over time.
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Underwater forests: Why it’s vital we protect our sea meadows
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Hundreds of miles from the nearest shore, ribbon-like fronds flutter in the ocean currents sweeping across an underwater mountain plateau the size of Switzerland.
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Climate change will hit ‘endemic’ plants and animals the hardest, study warns
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Plants and animals that only live in one region – known as “endemic” species – are expected to be “consistently more adversely impacted” by climate change than their less specialised counterparts, new research shows.
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How can we ensure a just transition to the green economy?
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
The global shift to a green economy could create 18 million jobs, with the potential to provide high-quality employment and livelihoods around the world.
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Ocean stability: what does it mean and what are the consequences?
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
If you’ve ever been seasick, “stable” may be the last word you associate with the ocean. But as global temperatures rise, the world’s oceans are technically becoming more stable.
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What happens when women run the economy? We’re about to find out
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Women now hold many of the jobs controlling the world’s largest economy – and they’re trying to fix it.
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COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 14 April
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
1. How COVID-19 is affecting the globe
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Big tech cannot crack down on online hate alone. We need to fund the smaller players
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Are you one of the billion active TikTok users? Or are you rather the Twitter type? Either way, chances are you have come across hateful content online.
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Countries must rethink tariffs on bio-manufacturing
Wednesday 14th of April 2021
Bio-pharmaceuticals are increasingly central to healthcare delivery in high and low-income countries alike. Well-known examples of these large molecule-based treatments are vaccines and monoclonal antibodies to treat COVID-19.
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COVID-19 has left many employees in the lurch. What’s next for the global workforce?
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
One year ago, companies across the US abruptly shuttered offices, sending employees home with their laptops and a vague hope to return to work in a matter of weeks. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a large segment of the global workforce through a remote-work experiment on a scale never seen before. Not surprisingly, 79% of office workers felt enormously unprepared to navigate this new reality.
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What just happened at the Forum’s Tech Summit? It’s on Radio Davos
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
Technology is advancing faster than most of us can comprehend, and it will have a big impact on our lives and livelihoods – presenting huge opportunities and potentially just as many risks.
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Arctic sea ice winter peak in 2021 is joint-seventh lowest on record
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
The provisional estimate from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado shows that this year’s winter maximum extent is 870,000km2 smaller than the 1981-2010 average.
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Coronavirus vaccine passports: everything you need to know
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
The British government has pledged to assess the ethical implications of vaccine passports as opposition grows to use of the certificates to reopen the economy.
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What is the best way to visualize human emotion?
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
A visual guide to human emotion
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Why bee diversity is essential for maintaining crops
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
There are over 20,000 bee species and together they help pollinate more than 75% of the world’s leading food crops. Honeybees tend to hog the limelight, but few realise how important diversity is to this process. Having lots of different species of pollinating insects on farmland can lead to better crop yields, while crops attended by fewer species tend to set less fruit and produce fewer seeds.
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Lockdown has impacted cognitive function – but socializing again can boost it
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
Many of us are looking forward to a summer of relative freedom, with road-mapped milestones that will grant us more opportunities to see our friends and family. But we’ll be carrying the effects of months of isolation into those meetings, including a sense that our social skills will need dusting off, and our wits will need sharpening.
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7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
For many Americans, going online is an important way to connect with friends and family, shop, get news and search for information. Yet today, 7% of U.S. adults say they do not use the internet, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Jan. 25-Feb. 8, 2021.
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These Dutch cities will allow only zero-emission deliveries by 2025
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
Cities in the Netherlands want to make their air cleaner by banning fossil fuel delivery vehicles from urban areas from 2025.
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3 pressing urban problems Indian cities must solve in the post-COVID recovery
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
• The pandemic revealed how Indian cities dependent on those working in the informal economy.
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8 charts that show the impact of race and gender on technology careers
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
Much work has been done to close gaps in gender and race equality in the tech industry, but a new report indicates there’s still more needed.
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This interactive map could help you discover a new species
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
Humans have only discovered and described around 20% of the species on Earth.
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How COVID-19 is helping Oman develop a future-ready workforce
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
In recent years, how to be more inclusive of youth and their capabilities in the workforce has been one of Oman’s primary challenges. The National Center for Statistics & Information’s census suggests that Omani youth between the ages of 18 to 29 represents 46.7% of the Sultanate’s population. As such, every year there is an influx of fresh graduates met with an imbalance of available opportunities.
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COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 13 April
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
1. How COVID-19 is affecting the globe
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5 ways to ensure trust when moving data across borders
Tuesday 13th of April 2021
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen the range of online services soar. Today, they provide a lifeline to many, bringing deliveries, medical assistance, entertainment and livelihoods via teleworking to people under lockdown. In a very diverse region like South-East Asia, for example, new digital services consumers due to COVID-19 amounted to one in every three.
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When will life return to ‘pre-COVID normal’?
Monday 12th of April 2021
Expectations about when life might return to something like a ‘pre-COVID normal’ vary widely across the globe, according to a new World Economic Forum-Ipsos survey.
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It will take another 136 years to close the global gender gap
Monday 12th of April 2021
Based on 2020 trends, the global gender gap was not expected to be closed for another 100 years. Already a mammoth prospect, but according to the latest WEF estimates for 2021, the world is now going backwards on this long road to gender equality. The time required is now forecast at 136 years. The main reason for this? Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director and Head of the WEF’s Centre for the New Economy and Society writes: “The Covid-19 pandemic has raised new barriers to building inclusive and prosperous economies and societies. Pre-existing gender gaps have amplified the crisis asymmetrically between men and women, even as women have been at the frontlines of managing the crisis as essential workers.”
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Want to create 5 million green jobs? Invest in public transport in cities
Monday 12th of April 2021
In a world reeling from the impact of COVID-19, investing in public transport could create 4.6 million jobs by 2030 and cut transport emissions, mayors in some 100 cities said.
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COVID-19: What low-income countries need for a more equal recovery
Monday 12th of April 2021
Many of the poorest countries in the world are facing the threat of a weak recovery, and setback in their development path.
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These Swiss robots use UV light to zap viruses aboard passenger planes
Monday 12th of April 2021
A robot armed with virus-killing ultraviolet light is being tested on Swiss airplanes, yet another idea aiming to restore passenger confidence and spare the travel industry more pandemic pain.
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This Indian city has introduced no-car Saturdays
Monday 12th of April 2021
Every Saturday, Shankar Yadav dusts off an old bike and pedals to work, reliving his carefree schooldays and hoping fellow Indians will join him in ditching cars to protect the planet.
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This ceramic ink can 3D-print bones directly into a patient’s body. Here’s how
Monday 12th of April 2021
A new 3D printing process which can be used inside the human body is offering hope to trauma and cancer patients who need bone replacements, reducing pain and speeding up recovery time.
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COVID-19: What you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic on 12 April
Monday 12th of April 2021
1. How COVID-19 is affecting the globe
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Are we at a turning point for tackling online extremism?
Monday 12th of April 2021
What do TV show predictions have to do with far-right conspiracy theories? On TikTok, an app popular with children younger than 14, there’s a very short path from one to the other.
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How global tourism can become more sustainable, inclusive and resilient
Monday 12th of April 2021
Tourism was one of the sectors hit hardest by the global pandemic. 2020 was the worst year on record for international travel due to the global pandemic, with countries taking decisive action to protect their citizens, closing borders and halting international travel.
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How ‘active efficiency’ can help electricity grids weather the storms to come
Friday 9th of April 2021
Recent events in Texas and elsewhere in the US are reminding us that our existing energy system infrastructure and operating structures are increasingly being challenged by severe weather-related events. In Texas, unprecedented freezing temperatures created a “perfect storm” of disruption, including dangerous conditions, decreased energy supply due to electric and gas infrastructure failures, and increased energy demand from building heating systems.
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How COVID-19 and ‘work from anywhere’ can build the city of the future
Friday 9th of April 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically and drastically changed the way we work. All around the world, government, education and healthcare industries have had to operate virtually, in many cases for the first time. Work from anywhere is becoming a more permanent fixture wherever jobs allow.
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Meet the Leader podcast: Verizon’s Hans Vestberg on how to focus on what’s most important
Friday 9th of April 2021
How will you make an impact? That’s a key question Hans Vestberg asks himself in his role as Verizon’s CEO, a company that employs thousands and effects even more as a telecommunications provider.
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This is how CO2 can be transformed into food for animals
Friday 9th of April 2021
A British biotechnology start-up is converting industrial greenhouses gases into protein for animal fodder. The company uses a process it says can help to feed the world’s growing population while simultaneously being sustainable.
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Early healthcare investment is our best chance at healthy ageing
Friday 9th of April 2021
The impact of COVID-19 has been substantial, tragic, and disruptive. It has also been revealing. The last year has been a visceral reminder that a healthy economy requires a healthy population. The willingness of governments to implement policies that save lives at considerable short term cost to gross domestic product (GDP) has also shown just how much society values health. Given how the mortality risk of COVID-19 rises with age it has been particularly revealing about ageing and health. Because many of the lives saved through economic lockdowns were older ones, it has shown how much society values older people.
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Technology can transform clinical practice – here’s how
Friday 9th of April 2021
No one has been unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but frontline healthcare workers are certainly among those suffering most. My gratitude for their commitment, tenacity and sacrifices is immeasurable. Yet I worry so much for their personal and professional well-being.
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5 lessons from Africa on how drones could transform medical supply chains
Friday 9th of April 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has made visible to the global community many of the health inequities that have long been present. As we move through this crisis, it has become clear that the previous ways of doing things are no longer adequate. This has led to innovation, such as the historic success of creating new vaccines in record time. Now attention is turning to how we can ensure equitable access to these types of essential health materials.
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Ageing is changing the way we move. Japan shows how transport systems can adapt
Friday 9th of April 2021
Societies around the world are ageing at unprecedented rates, as people live longer and have fewer children. Japan is at the forefront of this phenomenon: by 2050, a third of the population will be 65 or older, up from an already world-leading 25% today.
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Helen Clark: The lessons we need to learn from COVID-19
Friday 9th of April 2021
Helen Clark, the Co-Chair of Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, joined an Agenda Dialogues session to discuss the work of the panel, its findings and its recommendations for the future.
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Tree equity: This US project aims to boost wellbeing and create jobs in 5 cities
Friday 9th of April 2021
Trees in city neighbourhoods can help boost people’s wellbeing, improve air and water quality and even generate jobs – amongst other positives.
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How affordable clean energy solutions can tackle energy poverty
Thursday 8th of April 2021
According to the United Nations, 700 million people (10% of the world’s population) still live in poverty. A shocking statistic by any account, but one that many of us forget as we get on with our busy lives and deal with our own personal stresses.
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How technology helped Serbia save 180 million sheets of paper in less than 4 years
Thursday 8th of April 2021
Digitalization and e-governance can seem like abstract concepts.
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Responsible data collection could inspire consumer trust – here’s how
Wednesday 7th of April 2021
This piece originally appeared on Forbes.
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Why democratizing skills is the key to the post-pandemic economy
Wednesday 7th of April 2021
• The pandemic has widened the skills gap because of accelerating digitalizations.
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Overcoming COVID-19 will require tackling inequality
Wednesday 7th of April 2021
Leaders at this year’s World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings will determine how best to recover from one of the biggest crises the institutions have faced since their founding in 1944 – COVID-19’s impact and its economic aftermath. Given the need to fund treatment and vaccines, there is pressure to scale back funding for social provisions. But doing so would prove a catastrophic – and costly – mistake. Instead, leaders must boldly finance a more equal world.
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7 views on how technology will shape geopolitics
Wednesday 7th of April 2021
This piece originally appeared on Forbes.
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The rise in automation and what it means for the future
Wednesday 7th of April 2021
This article originally appeared on the Nokia website.
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Zoom chief: Digital tax policy should be a ‘set of carrots’ not sticks
Wednesday 7th of April 2021
Zoom chief Josh Kallmer has called for a multilateral rethink of tax policy, that recognizes how much the world has become digitized, but also encourages new, smaller innovators.
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Cycling has a massively important role to play in creating net-zero cities, Oxford study says
Wednesday 7th of April 2021
Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK. Sounds impressive, but even if all new cars were electric now, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the world’s fossil fuel car fleet.