Recap of this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting.
World Economic Forum News
The World Economic Forum or WEF is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and was founded in 1971. The forum is famous for gathering top businesses, governments and scientist and engaging them in the exchange of ideas and looking for solutions to world’s most important problems. The World Economic Forum is held annually in Davos and brings together more than 2,500 representatives into the discussion. The World Economic Forum is also the initiator of the Global Shapers Community, which is a network for successful and ambitious young people to interact with each other and shape new global projects. The World Economic Forum of 2018 was held in Davos from January 23 to 26 and was concentrated on the environment, energy policies, global health, sustainable development goals, artificial intelligence and gender issues.
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The World Economic Forum has appointed the CEO and founder of BitPesa, Elizabeth Rossiello, to serve as one of two co-chairs of the Global Blockchain Council.
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71 Institutional investors gave their views on blockchain in a survey revealed at the World Economic Forum this week.
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CEO Charles Li Xiaojia warned journalists at the World Economic Forum that companies should not flit between business cases prior to listing.
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WWF-Australia’s blockchain platform OpenSC aims to increase consumer-level transparency in goods, initially focusing on the food industry.
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Blockchain is not ready for at-scale supply chain deployment, Tradeshift’s Christian Lanng believes.
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by Helen Partz
The World Economic Forum has outlined more than 65 blockchain use cases for environmental protection in a recent report.
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The World Economic Forum and Bain & Company have released a joint forecast about distributed ledger technology in world trade finance.
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by Helen Partz
Cameron Winklevoss claims that Bitcoin could experience a thirty-to-forty-fold increase by disrupting the $7 trln gold market.
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Cryptocurrency regulation will be the sole concern of the US SEC and CFTC regulatory bodies at a hearing next Tuesday, Feb. 6.
- Interview
Cointelegraph caught up with the experienced Tech Journalist, Editor-at-Large at TechCrunch Mike Butcher to talk about the World Economic Forum in Davos, media ...
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Cointelegraph interviewed one of the world’s leading consultants on social and economic impact of technologies, co-founder at the Blockchain Research Institute,...
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A senior Deutsche Bank figure has suggested cryptocurrency could be considered like “established asset classes” in five years.
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After all the hype around Bitcoin, Weiss Ratings only labeled it a C+ with Ethereum getting better grades.
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Social media has reacted in kind to negative sentiments towards cryptocurrencies at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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