Critical Frontier: Leveraging Technology to Combat COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged clinicians, public health authorities, companies and governments to quickly develop new capabilities for supporting recovery, maintaining health secur...
World Economic Forum > White PapersReimagining Regulation for the Age of AI: New Zealand Pilot Project
The World Economic Forum’s Frameworks for Reimagining Regulation at the Age of AI seek to address the need for upgrading our existing regulatory environment to ensure the trustworthy desi...
World Economic Forum > White PapersIntegrated Corporate Governance: A Practical Guide to Stakeholder Capitalism for Boards of Directors
The role of company Boards of Directors has never been more crucial – and under review. The major technological, environmental, geopolitical and socio‑economic changes of the past two dec...
World Economic Forum > White PapersData Free Flow with Trust (DFFT): Paths towards Free and Trusted Data Flows
A major international initiative on data flows, the Osaka Track, was launched by heads of governments under Japan’s G20 leadership in 2019. This paper develops a framework for ‘data free ...
World Economic Forum > White PapersA Roadmap for CrossBorder Data Flows: Future-Proofing Readiness and Cooperation in the New Data Economy
The World Economic Forum partnered with the Bahrain Economic Development Board and a Steering Committee-led project community of organizations from around the world to co-design the Roadm...
World Economic Forum > White PapersThe Media, Entertainment and Culture Industry’s Response and Role in a Society in Crisis
In the first of a series of papers on what COVID-19 will mean for the media and entertainment industry, this report, in collaboration with Accenture, explores the role of the industry in ...
World Economic Forum > White PapersTransformational Investment: Converting Global Systemic Risks into Sustainable Returns
The report identifies six systemic risks and establishes a governance framework to enable the investment community to address risks related to water security, climate change, population g...
World Economic Forum > White PapersGlobal Innovations from the Energy Sector 2010-2020
This paper, from the World Economic Forum’s International Energy Community in China, presents an opportunity to reflect on some of the energy industry’s successful innovations since 2010.
World Economic Forum > White PapersHow to rebound stronger from COVID-19: Resilience in manufacturing and supply systems
The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Kearney, brought together C-level executives from different industry sectors to identify best responses to the current COVID-19 crisis, in ...
World Economic Forum > White PapersEmerging Priorities and Principles for Managing the Global Economic Impact of COVID-19
The Forum’s second edition of the Chief Economists Outlook addresses these questions: Where is the economy heading in the current situation? How effective are the policy responses being d...
World Economic Forum > White PapersInclusive Deployment of Blockchain for Supply Chains: Part 6 – A Framework for Blockchain Interoperability
Contrary to common belief, this specific challenge is not only a technology problem, but also a problem in governance, data ownership and commercial business models in terms of how they i...
World Economic Forum > White PapersWorkforce Principles for the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism in a Time of Crisis
While there currently is a significant focus on the public health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the workforce and societal implications are no less profound. The guiding p...
World Economic Forum > White PapersKnown Traveller Digital Identity Specifications Guidance
The Known Traveller Digital Identity (KTDI) concept relies upon a trusted, decentralized and interoperable identity platform enabled through technologies including blockchain, biometri...
World Economic Forum > White PapersEmbracing the New Age of Materiality:Harnessing the Pace of Change in ESG
A new World Economic Forum paper provides a framework for investors on the signals to look for to better identify dynamic ESG issues.
World Economic Forum > White PapersA Framework for Responsible Limits on Facial Recognition Use Case: Flow Management
The World Economic Forum’s Framework for the Responsible use of facial recognition technology seeks to address the need for a set of concrete guidelines to ensure the trustworthy and safe...
World Economic Forum > White PapersAdvancing Cyber Resilience in Aviation: An Industry Analysis
This white paper aims to raise awareness about the key systemic challenges to cyber resilience in the aviation industry in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and to highlight...
World Economic Forum > White PapersCentral Bank Digital Currency Policy-Maker Toolkit
The World Economic Forum’s Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Policy‑Maker Toolkit seeks to address the need for a concise CBDC decision guide that provides comprehensive and risk‑aware...
World Economic Forum > White PapersToward Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation
As the Forum community assembles for its 50th Annual Meeting under the theme of “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World”, it is our expectation that this report and the discuss...
World Economic Forum > White PapersPasswordless Authentication: The next breakthrough in secure digital transformation
This paper sheds light on the importance of authentication in digital transformation efforts, introduces a framework for future authentication systems and presents five key passwordless t...
World Economic Forum > White PapersAccelerating the Impact of Industrial IoT in Small and Medium‑Sized Enterprises: A Protocol for Action
To help SMEs keep up with the pace of technological change in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the World Economic Forum has launched a new policy protocol: Accelerating the Impact of Ind...
World Economic Forum > White PapersAPPA – Authorized Public Purpose Access: Building Trust into Data Flows for Well-being and Innovation
This White Paper proposes an approach to data governance that prioritizes value creation, in particular value creation that benefits a broad range of stakeholders including society as a w...
World Economic Forum > White PapersInclusive Deployment of Blockchain: Case Studies and Learnings from the United Arab Emirates
This paper offers real-world insights from the UAE blockchain ecosystem to provide decisionmakers with the awareness of challenges and success factors they may face during blockchain impl...
World Economic Forum > White PapersGlobal Lighthouse Network: Insights from the Forefront of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Over the past years, a leading group of manufacturers have made impressive progress scaling Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies within the manufacturing plant environment. The World...
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