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World Economic Forum Hacking Suspect Nabbed
News Swiss police have arrested a man suspected of hacking the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and stealing the credit card details of distinguished attendees. The World Economic Forum saw political and economic dignitaries convene on Davos...
[February 24, 2001, 7:24]
World Economic Forum Members Stay Connected Through Emerging Technologies
White Papers No other institution brings together the world's leadership team the way the World Economic Forum does. Each year, the World Economic Forum brings together the world's leadership team at a meeting in Davos, Switzerland - known by many as the...
[December 17, 2003, 3:16]
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
White Papers The Forum wanted to enable greater access to key information such as session schedules, news, corporate backgrounds and contact data. It was also required that data could be centrally updated and distributed.
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
Europe To US: Get Off Our Backs
News Starting in March, when Intel's chief executive delivered a stinging keynote speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Grove has not been shy about giving Europeans an earful. Addressing an auditorium filled with political and...
[August 29, 1997, 9:27]
Surveys Give Conflicting Accounts Of IT In The UK
News A Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) study into ICT has lauded British businesses' use of technology, saying industry is using it more effectively -- while the World Economic Forum's Global Information Report has shown the UK's global ICT...
[December 12, 2003, 13:55]
Microsoft's International Man A Mystery No More
News You served as co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Digital Divide Initiative Task Force and are a member of the South African International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development.
[June 21, 2005, 16:40]
UK Falls Out Of Global 'ICT Readiness' Top 10
News The UK was ninth last year, according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Networked Readiness Index Framework, which the WEF uses to compile its annual Global Information Technology Report. The framework considers the connectedness and ICT usage of...
[April 10, 2008, 16:57]
Spam Still On The Menu For Bill At Davos?
Blog Bill Gates is set to host a breakfast meeting on Saturday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. We wonder what will be on the menu - spam fritters anyone? Three years on from predictions that the industry could stamp out spam in two years - and...
[January 25, 2007, 15:30]
Broadband Everywhere
White Papers Cisco leaders have joined others in spreading this broadband message, most recently at the TechNet tele-conference but also at this year's World Economic Forum. Broadband will change the world, enhancing global communication and leading to...
[January 11, 2004, 23:00]
Knowledge Discovery Tool: The Research Engine With A Brain
White Papers The Knowledge Discovery Tool has helped tens of thousands of executives - from leading pharmaceutical researchers to global leaders at the World Economic Forum, to Accenture consultants - drive to actionable information more quickly, lower their...
[August 3, 2007, 3:28]
Debating Forum Organises Events More Effectively And Enhances The Customer Experience
White Papers Nueva Economia Forum is an independent, non-partisan organisation that fosters economic, social, and political debate in Spain. This was no longer able to reliably collect, store, and analyse comprehensive information relating to each event, such...
[January 11, 2007, 0:00]
IBM Spearheads Drive To Eradicate World's Slums
News Habitat JAM was officially launched in London on Friday by Charles Kelly, the WUF commissioner general and the Canadian Government representative at the World Economic Forum 3, which will be held next year.
[November 4, 2005, 17:30]
Internet Creates Haves And Have-nots - Survey
News The results follow the summit on economic growth in Florence last month where President Clinton claimed the Internet was creating the world's new haves and have-nots. A survey conducted by MORI on behalf of the World Internet Forum has found the...
[December 14, 1999, 10:06]
Networked World Will Require Revolution
News If the high-speed networked world is to succeed there needs to be a dramatic shift away from current economic thinking. So says influential writer and president of the Foundation of Economic Trends Jeremy Rifkin.
[February 26, 2001, 14:51]
Microsoft Changes Censorship Policy
News Smith said the new policy was the result of discussions inside the company as well as with government leaders and advocacy groups, including meetings he had last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
[February 1, 2006, 18:30]
Korea, China, Japan Start Open-source Collaboration
News Shortly after that meeting, Japan, the world's second-largest economy, made a proposal at an Asian economic summit to build an inexpensive and trustworthy open-source operating system that would be based on a system such as Linux, which can be...
[April 1, 2004, 12:30]
Hewitt: We Have A Problem
News Last month a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) puts the UK near the bottom of the broadband league table and, being a source that the government regularly refers to, it will be the most embarassing...
[May 4, 2001, 15:28]
PC Market Growth At Historic Low
News The US market grew by 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter, or 13.2 million units, hit hard by an economic slowdown that coincided with the Christmas shopping season. The timing of the economic downturn was unfortunate for the industry in the sense...
[January 19, 2001, 15:04]
Asia Leads The Way In Broadband Growth
News Even in the midst of economic slowdown and telecoms crisis, DSL rollout is still going ahead at a high rate. Worldwide growth of 36 per cent during the past six months has added 6.8 million subscribers to the global total, according to figures...
[August 28, 2002, 9:31]
France Attacks Britain Over Echelon
News The seven month investigation by the French parliament concludes that Echelon is routinely used to gather economic information and warns that it is open to abuse. The report says that the system may well be used by the nations that operate it to...
[October 13, 2000, 17:05]
