"The fourth industrial revolution - it's a fusion of the physical, the digital & the biological world. It's changing not only what we are doing, it's changing who we are."
Schwab: "The speed is mind boggling. What I'm particularly concerned about, is how little the world is prepared."
Satya Nadella, #Mircosoft: "It's really the notion of digital technology pervasively impacting every walk of life & every [] industry, in all parts of the globe."
"A Cloud for Global Good"
"Tech for Good"
"Responsible AI"
"Harnessing this revolution requires the involvements of all #stakeholders. From #public & private sectors, to #academia & civil society."
March 2019: 4 centers: US, India, Japan, China. Present: affiliate centers (currently 9), to form a global network, will roll out at scale.
Sept 24, 2019: Aker group & WEF announced establishment of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution #Norway (#C4IRNorway). The Centre officially opened Jan. 1, 2020.
"Development & application of #automation technologies feature prominently in a #Norwegian pilot programme on #deepseamining, particularly in relation to mineral exploration & #extraction (NTNU, 2017)."
"#C4IR#Ocean, an imitative of Aker, World Economic Forum & "Friends of Ocean Action" - financed by Marc #Benioff; Salesforce founder, owner of TIME, WEF Board of Trustees, inaugural chair of WEF's 4IR Centre, US.
In 2019, "#SouthAfrica signed an accord w/ #WEF through the Department of Science & Innovation." This formalized "South Africa's membership as a host of a WEF
Affiliate Centre for #FourthIndustrialRevolution."
"The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution UAE (C4IR #UAE) is a collaboration between the #Dubai Future Foundation & the #WorldEconomicForum, and is the first affiliate centre in the world open since April 2019."
"Harvesting the oceans under the Blue Economy": "The #OECD suggests that the #ocean economy is likely to outpace the global economy in the next 15 years."
"Framed as perhaps the last untapped, under-explored & under-exploited region in the world, the Pacific #Ocean is set to be a contested space for resources."
"The #BlueEconomy heralds a new race to carve up the Pacific, turning the Pacific Ocean, from surface to seafloor, into a crowded/contested space. Pacific state leaders are courted w/ economic gains that are a fraction of the value of the ocean resources that will be #extracted."
#IMF, winter, 2020: Shaping a #Data#Economy - by Murat Sonmez, Member of the Managing Board of World Economic Forum, Head of the Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, San Francisco.
"The world needs a new system of governance for the buying & selling of data"
"Tech was already speeding ahead when the global #pandemic began. Now it is in even higher gear. More than 80% of business executives are accelerating plans to digitalize work processes & deploy new tech. By 2025, employers will divide work equally between #humans & #machines."
"How can we ensure that all of society benefits, & not just the privileged few? ... #Data is the key to unlocking the potential of the #4IR. It fuels AI, precision medicine, robotics, & the IoTs"
Precision PH Summit, w/ White House & Gates Found., 2016:
"the new King of Wall Street is leading the charge...
..there could be as much as $120 trillion up for grabs...It’s tied to the $5-trillion global transport. industry, the $9 trillion healthcare industry, the $850-billion airline industry.. the $26-billion food delivery segment"
"world's first #carbonoffset ride-sharing platform to an electric vehicle subscription service... #ESG investors are loving it.
And its "people & planet first" motto fits in perfectly with the new kings of #WallStreet.
From Climate Naysayers to #COVID Believers: Money Talks"
The big lie: "#Alphabet [#GOOGLE] is one of the leaders in the Big Tech push to go green. Not only is Alphabet powering its #datacenters w/ renewable #energy, it is also on the cutting edge of innovation... investing in new tech. & green [] to build a more sustainable tomorrow."
"Due to the crucial role of placenta in supporting the foetus's #development & in acting as an interface w/ the external environment, the presence of potentially harmful #plastic#particles is a matter of great concern."
"...scientists say there is an urgent need to assess the issue, particularly for infants. In October, scientists revealed that babies fed formula milk in #plastic bottles are swallowing millions of #particles a day."