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A topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos this year was the question “How do we upskill a billion people by 2030?”Product Owners and Scrum Masters are specifically named on the WEF list of Jobs of Tomorrow. All the other skills that Development Teams need in the digital…

For the World Economic Forum to truly achieve its mission in “bringing together people from all walks of life” it must do more to embrace the world’s fastest-growing and youngest population, writes Elizabeth Rossiello. Making my way around Davos last week, one aspect was missing in general: Africans. Among the…

View Slideshow In the landlocked Swiss town of Davos-Klosters, German designer Julia Lohmann has brought multi-sensory elements of the sea to guests of the World Economic Forum (WEF) 50th Annual Meeting. Hidaka Ohmu is a seaweed installation accompanied by a seaweed prototyping workshop. Created as part of the Cooper Hewitt…

The year 2020 marks two important anniversaries. It has been 75 years since the establishment of the United Nations (UN) by the victorious powers of World War II. And it has been 50 years since the establishment of the World Economic Forum (WEF) by Professor Klaus Schwab.One might say that…

Yves here. One bit of good news with Uber and its allies’ launch of an empty charter to pretend to deal with the job conditions of gig workers is it appears to have gotten little notice in the US. Perhaps the fact that it was launched at Davos was more…

Getty The World Economic Forum predicts that the digital revolution will transform the future of work and the workplace: as many as 133 million new jobs will be created, but 75 million jobs are likely to be eliminated. This “job churn” will eventually impact a quarter of all work, and will…

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND - 2020/01/22: Limousines and cars are queuing up in a main Davos street during ... the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF). (Photo by Thierry Falise/LightRocket via Getty Images) LightRocket via Getty Images The World Economic Forum (WEF) convened in Davos Switzerland last week for its 50th Anniversary. This…

Ravin Jesuthasan For the last couple of years, the issues of climate change and the future of work have been front and center on the Davos agenda. So was 2020 just more of the same? Not quite. In the weeks leading up to Davos, the WEF outlined an ambitious agenda…

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ISLAMABAD: Terming his participation in the recently held World Economic Forum (WEF) as the "cheapest" official visit, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan disclosed that his trip was sponsored by two of his friends and well-known businessmen Ikram Sehgal and Imran Chaudhry, it was reported on Saturday. Addressing the 'Breakfast at…