The Puzzle of Davos 2020; Digital.Davos or how celebrity, industry and politician can work together

Humanity likes to believe that we are the center of the world and it can be seen with great ease that we are indeed only a small part of a very large, inexpressible, self-regulating system. We tend to ignore that our species is here the equal amount of 2.4 minutes of one full day. We claim cultural achievements when indeed we just were driven to adapt in order to survive. Indeed, we believe that we are resilient, but it is now, today, where we have to prove it to solve the problems. 

 It is therefore with great joy to have welcomed our panelists and speakers this week at Digital.Davos.2020. Those leaders, in their companies, institutions and countries, implement with courage, bold and resilient solutions to many problems. Each solution contributing in synergy to solve an even bigger problem.  It may be the self-regulating, inexpressible system which forces us naturally not only to adapt, but also to drive and create tools across a multitude of seemingly unrelated disciplines which in synergy can tackle todays problems more effectively.

In digital.davos.2020 celebrities like Will.i.am did not only shine on problems of gun violence but Will.i.am addressed this problem with his production of the documentary “Parkland Rising”. He found synergies with Brittany Kaiser, who became a household name as a whistleblower in the scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Trump Presidential Campaign. Will supports Brittany in her fight for every human right to own and control their own data. Urs Aebischer from Diseo further contributed, on a prior panel, with Brittany his concept of an impressive already created and available solution to ensure privacy of data and empowering consumers to choose how long and what data they would like to share. He further opened an avenue to let people be compensated to share their data, a methodology of new way advertisement, which had been prior pioneered by Karl Seelig, who moderated this panel. Karl Seelig, inventor of the ring back tone, showed in 2015 and 2016 the etherical use of data with micro targeting for advertisement to allow free phone services for hundreds of thousands of people through RingPlus over the Sprint network.

Karl, as curator of digital.davos.2020 and strong believer in the necessity of self-regulations, advocates for self-regulation in a larger picture. He invited not only speakers to participate advocating for data privacy, like Brittany Kaiser and Will.I.am, but also speakers advocating for self-regulation and clear regulation regarding crypto currencies and token offerings. Amongst them none other than Congressman Jason Hsu from Taiwan, who is known as the crypto congressman, whose efforts not only brought Taiwan into the forefront of effective crypto and token regulation but also soon introducing digital ID’s. Vit Jedlicka, President of Liberland, who envisions crypto currencies as official state currencies, was very intrigued by Rune Christensen, CEO/founder of MakerDAO and his presentation of stable coins based on currently based crypto currencies. A system which Vit envisions as having the potential to overtake the role of a central bank, making fiat currency a thing of the past.

As FIAT currencies are based upon trust, self-regulatory organizations are building trust. Frazer Bennett, Chief Innovation Officer at PA Consulting Corp, spoke about how in today’s world, trust has to be built one person at a time but can be lost in masses as the main differentiator between todays business development strategies and strategies from 5 years ago.

But trust in the time of “deepfake” news becomes difficult to build, as Aaron Stanley from Coindesk pointed out on his panel. He was showing how “deepfakes” can be used efficiently to spread fake news and manipulate people in masses rather than micro targeting people as done by Cambridge Analytica.  

A solution probably lies in products like the products from Sergio Mello, CEO of Tangem which not only produced crypto “paper currencies with chips” but also leads the innovation of chip to chain processes to verify if a product or service is authentic.

Speaking of chips, this guides us to Osh Agabi, Founder & CEO of Koniku Inc who has developed a smell camera or "smell cyborg". If anything has a smell, it can be detected. It can identify any chemical in the air without touching or "seeing" it. The chip device has two halves, a biological half and a silicon half. The biological half does the sensing & first stage signal amplification and the electronics performs the signal processing. A smell cyborg using synthetic biology merged with silicon to build a unique, global scale healthcare platform. Osh did not only purchase the technology from the ETH in Zurich but works also with the Fraunhofer institute. 

Digital.Davos.2020 was also joined by Mike Moradi, CEO of Sensulin and General Partner at Hexagon Regenerative Medicine Fund, who explained their investment strategy related to regenerative medicine in cooperation with Harvard University.

Sandro Salsano, a Fortune 100 self-made billionaire and Young Global Leader (YGL), shared his investment strategies but shared more the philanthropic work with children and education which he does together with his wife and is his true dedication and way of self-fulfillment.

Of course, Sandro’s interview theme seemly, like one puzzle peace to another, brings us to the panel about the future of education hosted by Mark Turrell, CEO of Orcasci and WEF YGL as well as Tech Pioneer.

All those subjects seemed like single puzzle pieces not related to one another, but put together, one just thought to dream of a world where billionaires invest with conscious, helping children and education; where firms voluntarily submit to self-regulation handling personal data as well as financial transparency to the highest standards to safe guard people, investments and privacy; where digital IDs make traveling easier; where fake news is gone; where microtargeting is not used for manipulation but to present consumers with relevant needed information; where medicine fighting cancer is helped by innovation in early detection and by investments in potential cures, where politicians work together to effectively foster such an environment. We all can see that the synergy of putting these puzzle pieces together begins to show a resilient way to solve some major problems. It is the activist who promotes the change, but it is the innovator which drives the change and the inexpressible self-regulating system which shapes the change.   

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