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A fairer world requires fairer tech. Here’s why
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Author: Jeremy Jurgens, Managing Director, World Economic Forum
The first Global Technology Governance Summit will be held on April 6-7, 2021.
Leaders have an opportunity to scale more than just technological solutions.
Leaders have a responsibility to question how tech is designed, developed and implemented to shape a fairer, more responsible world.
In the decade ahead, a wave of technological solutions will touch and transform every part of our lives. These new solutions could either tackle existing problems – or exacerbate them while creating others. As tech can scale both progress or harm, the time is now to shape the fair and responsible future we want to live in. Technology
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Regional City Networks Launch in Latin America and South Asia Bringing the Fourth Industrial Revolution to Small and Medium-Sized Cities
Aylin Elci, Public Engagement, World Economic Forum, +41 75 404 10 95, [email protected]
The World Economic Forum is launching two regional networks in Latin America and South Asia to connect pioneer cities to smaller cities
Based in Medellín, Colombia, and Mumbai, India, the regional networks of cities launch as part of the Forum s G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance and are designed to help small cities implement new technology policies
The roll out follows the successful establishment of this model in a number of Japanese cities, led by the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan
April 8, 2021
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How technology helped Serbia save 180 million sheets of paper in less than 4 years
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Author: Joe Myers, Writer, Formative Content
Serbia’s government has made digitalization a focus.
It began rolling out electronic e-government services in June 2017.
Since then, it estimates it has saved around 180 million sheets of A4 paper.
Digitalization and e-governance can seem like abstract concepts.
But, in a session at the World Economic Forum’s Global Technology Governance Summit, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić gave an example of how going virtual can have a real-world impact. Technology
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Regional City Networks Launch in Latin America and South Asia Bringing Fourth Industrial Revolution to Small and Medium-Sized Cities
The World Economic Forum is launching two regional networks in Latin America and South Asia to connect ‘pioneer cities‘ to smaller cities
Based in Medellín, Colombia, and Mumbai, India, the regional networks of cities launch as part of the Forum’s G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance and are designed to help small cities implement new technology policies
The roll out follows the successful establishment of this model in a number of Japanese cities, led by the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan
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Positive Tech Solutions will forge recovery: Global Technology Governance Summit Concludes
More than 2,000 leaders from 125 countries gathered to shape the trajectory of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Business leaders emphasized the importance of positive solutions that technology can bring to societal, climate and equity issues
The summit’s conclusions will feed into platforms, initiatives, and projects for the upcoming Special Annual Meeting 2021 in Singapore
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Tokyo, Japan, 8 April 2021 – Global leaders back the need for more technology governance to tackle the most pressing global problems at the World Economic Forum’s inaugural Global Technology Governance Summit, which closed on Wednesday.