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World Economic Forum Selects Dilithium for Technology Pioneer Award

Company recognized for developing and applying highly transformational and innovative technologies that bring video to any 2.5G/3G mobile phone, PCs and set top boxes.READ MORE

World Economic Forum Annual Meeting

Hello, home-court advantage! According to new data from the World Economic Forum, Switzerland -- which hosts the WEF's annual meeting -- has the most competitive economy in the world, besting the second-ranked United States, which had ...READ MORE

Room for Improvement...

The U.S. ranks only 45th out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum's index of environmental sustainability for 2005.READ MORE

Women and the Web Community -- The Key to Solving the Financial Crisis?

Could the global financial crisis have been averted if more women were in the leadership of banks and financial institutions around the world?  Are women the key to finding solutions to the economic turmoil?That is the suggestion of ...READ MORE

U.S. Slipping Down "Most Networked Nations" Ranks: World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (the folks behind the yearly Davos meeting) surveyed 133 nations recently to work out how well each is networked up. Measured by a number of criteria, the U.S. slipped from third last year to fifth in ...READ MORE

Day One at the World Economic Forum on Africa

Does design have a role at the World Economic Forum? Robert Fabricant's second report from Dar es Salaam.READ MORE

Global Report: U.S. Losing Its Competitive Edge

Debt and dwindling faith in public institutions help torpedo America's ranking in an annual World Economic Forum Report. But hey, at least we're still ahead of Germany.READ MORE

Day Two at the World Economic Forum on Africa

How do information and communication technologies influence innovation in Africa? Robert Fabricant's third report from the World Economic Forum.READ MORE

Infographic of the Day: What Crises Could Crush Us in 2010?

A map connecting the myriad risks to the global economy.READ MORE

Inspirational Shame in the Era of Behavior

We have entered a time when how we do things is essential to our ability to succeed, says Dov Seidman. In this “Era of Behavior,” shame is a powerful social and business force and a behavior rooted in sustainable values. Shaming can even be inspirational. How? Shame is a key element of self governance and an example of a self-correcting force in a self-governing culture.READ MORE

Fast Company Recommended Events December 2009

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Scandal At Davos

In tomorrow's newpapers, you'll be reading about a controversy that has erupted at Davos. ''Global Agenda,'' the magazine of the World Economic Forum, contains an article calling for a boycott of Israel. In an email to participants ...READ MORE

8 Lessons for Creating Social Impact

Can designers really help when it comes to social issues? Robert Fabricant outlines eight lessons he has learned from social impact partnerships. READ MORE

First Visit to Davos

I feel like I was asked to the prom by the head cheerleader. Our company was recently selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and one of the privileges of that distinction is that I get to attend the WEF Annual ...READ MORE

Fast Company Recommended Events: December-January 2008

Coming in December and January: a "chip tunes" fest in New York, the World Economic Forum, and National Pie Day.READ MORE

Yay! Surveys Say Consumer Confidence on the Rise, Execs Planning to Hire Again

A ray of sunshiny optimism appears to be breaking through the dark, depressing clouds of the last year and a half as the Conference Board reports a 16-month high in consumer confidence. The consumer confidence index hit 55.9 this ...READ MORE

Solutions for a Water-Deprived Planet

The raging creeks and still snow-packed peaks of Aspen, Colorado don't outwardly suggest any hints of a global water crisis, but it provides a reflective backdrop for design students who arrived here this week to tackle what ...READ MORE

OneVoice at Davos

There's always the potential for drama, and for progress, when leaders confront the authentic voices of their people. That's what happened yesterday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at a panel on the Middle East conflict ...READ MORE

‘Creationism’ Comes to WEF? Innovation Dominates the Discussion in Tianjin

At last week’s “Summer Davos,” the annual World Economic Forum meeting in China, talk about innovation was everywhere. Not surprisingly, the sense of the meeting was that waiting for governments to set consistent rules and incentives for a low-carbon economy is a fool’s game. READ MORE

Ranking the Stops on Bill Clinton's Conference Circuit

President Bill Clinton was never the retiring kind. Post-White House, he has attended many elite meetups -- and started his own. The fifth annual CGI meeting will be September 22 -- 25 in New York. We ranked it, for prestige and publicity, with three other stops on his circuit.READ MORE

Even More 1999 Than I Thought

In a post Monday, I described the over-the-top Google party at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and noted that Google would post fourth-quarter earnings after the closing bell Tuesday. Well, post they did—an 82% increase in ...READ MORE

Prophet of Productivity

Cisco CEO John Chambers sure showed the chrome-domes in Davos a thing or two.READ MORE

Technology Trendsetters

Today's edition of the International Herald Tribune reports that Singapore tops a recent World Economic Forum survey of countries around the world -- and their technological efficiency. Here's the top ...READ MORE

How Sustainability Survived the Great Recession

Around this time last year, the deathwatch for sustainability was on full alert. Many wondered whether the "green bubble" would burst the same way the tech bubble and the housing bubble did. Would sustainability follow Lehman Brothers into the pages of history, a relic of the good times?READ MORE