What are our digital members talking about?

The World Economic Forum’s digital membership community is comprised of high growth individuals and organizations, who engage with a network of experts and innovators to shape the global agenda on these important key issues. This is what they are saying about topics most important to them:

????COVID-19

??The crisis is bigger than just looking after COVID-19 patients. The impact of allocating resources and healthcare staff to COVID-19 has a significant impact on current healthcare services. We are calculating the mortality from COVID-19 but we should add the mortality of other diseases that are currently not getting treated - Business Leader, India

Human behavior will undergo a radical change. People have found lost values, have other ideologies and aspirations. The most important thing that COVID 19 has done, has changed the global perception of the majority of the world.

Professor, South Africa

??Countries without Universal Health Coverage are facing a huge issue in not being able to account for and treat all those infected since a trip to the hospital could put a great financial burden on people. It is thus excluding the poorest from testing and treatment, allowing the disease to spread far and wide among people with a lower income, thus perpetuating inequalities - International Organization, Europe

????Global Governance

??Social protection consists of policies and programs designed to reduce poverty and vulnerability by promoting efficient equality labor markets, diminishing people's exposure to risks in all levels (including health) and enhancing their capacity to manage economic and social risks, such as unemployment, exclusion, sickness, disability and old age. Startup Executive, Bangladesh

Too often, when the term ‘innovation’ is invoked, it is assumed that the implication can only be in reference to some new technological gadget, process, etc. It is well past time to recognize and act on the dire need for broad institutional innovation. Strategy Officer, Europe

??The challenge is that as a global society we have to also build public institutions that would undertake this transformational change. The emergency actions taken in response to COVID-19 crisis by all governments has shown that there is a way forward. We have witnessed an unprecedented level of action by all governments to save lives and livelihoods. Now is the time to build on the current community consensus.Global governance is a means to manage issues that cut across national borders - whether it is a pandemic, financial crisis, or geo-economic dispute. Non-profit executive, South Asia

????5G

??There is much discussion around 5G and the impact on health and safety — This is also the birthplace of many conspiracy theories and false information. Bringing real data into focus by making this a key issue could serve to highlight that those concerns are not ignored. Health Executive, North America

The roll out of 5G spectrum and its operations on various devices would significantly increase demand for electricity. It is not unknown that electricity generation methods, for example hydraulic power generation, is one of the major contributors of pollution and Carbon dioxide emissions. Developing pollution free methods of power generation is as important as, if not more, than regulation of imposition.

Tech Executive, Europe

??The 5G conversation is missing the logical starting points of risk assessment for humans, flora, fauna and water as well as short-term, mid-term and long-term pilot testing . In public science there prevails little understanding of the characteristics of these things. Professor, Australia

????Fourth Industrial Revolution

??Businesses are often locked into long-term contracts for the provision of automation/systems hence equipment/machine to machine connectivity required for Industry 4.0 is sometimes restricted by the legal frameworks and vendor locking rather than a willingness to engage in the transformation journey. Industry Leader, India

What does it mean to be human in the world of industry 4.0. - it is necessary to carry out normative consolidation of new global digital human rights on access to the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the preservation of man in the context of the creation of AI.

Ethics Executive, UK

??Values and responsibilities are not only defined by work or government; culture and social interaction is equally essential. Sustainability is getting side-tracked, which will have devastating effects more than when 3rd industrial revolution, where it was completely ignored. International Organization, Europe

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