To Kick-Start the “New Mindsets / Changing Attitudes” Action Group

Welcome to the World Economic Forum Action Group 3 Blog. This action group, formed in our Annual Meeting 2006 focuses on New Mindsets/ Changing Attitudes.

We are looking forward to an exciting and intensive discussion process over the next days. What are the upcoming disruptive technologies changing the way we think and act, how to unleash the power of alternative energy and how to take responsibility for the next generations. What are the new mindsets that we need to create and how do we go about it? These are just some of the questions that we shall discuss on this blog and during our Action Group meetings.

Just “hot air”?

No, we don’t think so.

1. Each Action Group will be composed of different communities (such as Young Global Leaders, Business Leaders, Academia), representing the stakeholders of real-world issues, and providing a broad range of intellectual views and experiences
2. Whilst the brainstorming will not be limited in any way, at the end of the Annual Meeting Journey we will come up with a concrete recommendation
3. Throughout 2006 we will work hard to implement parts of the recommendation, by making the best use of the existing initiatives of the World Economic Forum.

We would like to especially invite everybody to contribute and to post your opinion. Please enter any relevant messages regarding this theme so we gather and sift through information as we go through our Annual Meeting and also beyond.

Please ensure you sign your name after each comment so we can attribute good ideas later.

We are looking forward to your posts!

Saman Ahsan                                                            

Global Leadership Fellow                                          

C-100 Initiative         

    

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Emanuel Frauenlob

Global Leadership Fellow

Europe

Comments

[Senad Hasanagic-student of University of Sarajevo School of Medicine,Bosnia and Herzegovina]

Let me add a few more comments and clarify my standpoint briefly.
Transnational (“global”) corporations that actually embody 21st century monopoly capital are not interested in financing public healthcare system of any nation since they are non –national in their nature and operates globally. Soon it would be realized that such mammoth conglomerates of financial,industrial,energy,transport etc. institutions would dictate national especially, developing and non-developed countries governments and state legislature and not vice versa. It is logical that these transnational corporations (allegedly on behalf of their employees ) would channel resources to the private institutions of healthcare through private health insurance funds that in many cases , might be one of their subsidiaries. By this scenario, national public healthcare would be deprived of resources directly ,by transnational corporations allocation of money to private health programs and ,secondly by the fact that national companies that normally finance public health would be absorbed and takeover by transnational corporations.

That is why I think that some “global health care taxes” must me introduced and imposed on transnational corporations by United Nations and World Health Organization in order to set up global fund that would finance public health programs at national level. It is simply inadmissible that private philanthropic organization and foundations raise money for these purposes on voluntary bases worldwide in stead of United Nations and World Health Organization through compulsory global taxation.

[Senad Hasanagic-student of University of Sarajevo School of Medicine,Bosnia and Herzegovinamedicine]

In my opinion World Economic Forum must address issues pertaing to the global health such as effects of "globalisation" and "global economy" on world population health , national healthcare systems,financing of health etc. I am afraid that national healthcare systems might soon face insurmoantable difficulties in providing adequate finacial and human resources for public health programs and healthcare due to concentration of money in private health insurance companies/funds and private healthcare providers.