The World Economic Forum will be using new Web applications to extend the discussions at the Annual Meeting 2007 to a much wider audience. Held under the theme Shaping the Global Agenda: The Shifting Power Equation, the debates and discussions at the Meeting will be open to the general public via traditional broadcast channels, but also via webcasts, podcasts and for the first time, vodcasts. Internet users can field questions to participants via blogs and videoblogs and selected participants will be interviewed live in the virtual world of Second Life. As in previous years, all participants are encouraged to take part in the Forum’s blog to participate in the Davos Conversation – and this year a range of bloggers will contribute their thoughts to the discussions.
"There’s much talk about the hype surrounding Web 2.0 and whether there really is a sea change in how the Internet is delivering to Web users – but what is for sure is how many new opportunities we are getting to enlarge the Davos conversation and to include a far wider group of people both at the Annual Meeting and in the wider world to a truly global audience," said Mark Adams, Director, Head of Communications.
The Forum is continuing to develop the ways that views can be exchanged both at the Annual Meeting and beyond with a wider public. Among the innovations:
- In partnership with the world’s most renowned bloggers, the World Economic Forum is developing a Davos Conversation page, a "bloggregator" that will bundle all blog posts, video blogs, photo blogs and video feeds from and about the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2007. The partners of the project – Huffington Post, the Guardian, the BBC and BuzzMachine are inviting their readers to record and submit video questions and comments. The page is powered by Daylife, a new news platform just launched in New York. A selection of these will be presented on the Davos conversation page with responses from the participants at the Forum’s Annual Meeting. Anyone wishing to participate in the Davos Conversation needs to tag their posts "davos07" to be picked up by the Davos Conversation page: http://www.weforum.org/davosconversation
- To enlarge the Davos Conversation, every participant of the Annual Meeting – ranging from business leaders to political leaders, heads of NGOs, religious leaders, academics and journalists – has been asked to join the Forum blog. At its Annual Meeting in January 2005, the World Economic Forum became the first international organization to set up a blog; the upcoming Annual Meeting will see a significant development in the experiment. All of the more than 2,200 participants, including presidents and prime ministers, will be asked to provide at least one posting for the blog: http://www.forumblog.org
- The Open Forum 2007, co-organized by the World Economic Forum and the Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches, will truly live up to its name. Not only will the sessions, held in the auditorium of the Alpine High School (Alpine Mittelschule), Guggerbachstrasse 3, Davos Platz, be open to the general public but, to broaden the audience, the entire programme of the Open Forum has been placed on a Wiki so the global audience can field questions and comments to the moderators: http://connect.weforum.org/display/openForum2007
- The best pictures of the day from the Annual Meeting taken by the World Economic Forum’s official photographers, Swiss-Image, will be available on a public photostream on: http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum
- For the first time, selected participants of the Annual Meeting will be interviewed in the 3D virtual world of Second Life. Second Life residents can submit their questions to Adam Reuters, Reuters’ Second Life correspondent, who will conduct the interview in the Reuters auditorium in Second Life. Internet users can watch the interviews online at: http://secondlife.reuters.com
- The Forum will webcast over 50 of the 220 sessions of the Annual Meeting. 31 of the sessions will be webcast live and a further 20 will be available for download once the session is over. All webcasts will be available also as pod- and vodcasts for download from Google video. The World Economic Forum has been webcasting from Davos since 2001. All webcasts and vodcasts can be accessed on the Forum’s website at: http://www.weforum.org/annualmeeting/webcasts (live on 17 January)
- The Forum's Annual Meeting will again be covered by major broadcasting organizations, ranging from CNN, BBC World, CNBC and Al Jazeera, to national broadcasters such as NHK, ARD, ZDF, TVE and RAI. Broadcasters not present in Davos can pick up the video feeds from Eurovision Operations, which is planning to carry live feeds from up to 10 sessions each day. A daily video news release highlighting each day’s events will be distributed by the World Economic Forum for free downlink via Eurovision World Feed at: http://www.eurovision.net/net/distribution.php
- Additionally, host broadcaster Swiss National Television will show large parts of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting on its freely accessible channel, SFinfo. The programmes will be both in German and in the original language and can be viewed both in Switzerland and abroad.
Notes to Editors:
· Everything about the Annual Meeting 2007 can be found here: www.weforum.org/annualmeeting
· In depth Interviews with key business participants are here: www.weforum.org/annualmeeting/indepth
· The Programme can be downloaded here: www.weforum.org/annualmeeting/programme
· Follow the discussions and read the Session summaries here: www.weforum.org/annualmeeting/summaries2007 (live 24 January)
· Follow key debates webcast live or download them as vodcasts or podcasts at: www.weforum.org/annualmeeting/webcasts (live 24 January)
· Join the Davos Conversation (www.weforum.org/davosconversation) or leave your comments in our Weblog at: www.forumblog.org
· Subscribe to our Press Releases here: www.weforum.org/pressreleases
· Download print-quality high resolution Photographs of the Annual Meeting free of charge here: www.swiss-image.ch/webwef/INDEX.htm (login: world; password: forum)
To the Honorable: Bi Jingquan, Cheng Siwei, Hua Jianmin, Kong Quan, Li Shishi, Liu Mingkang, Wu Xiaoling, Xia Deren, Yi Xiaozhun, Chen Tonghai, Liu Zhenya, Wang Jianzhou, Yang Yuanqing.
Question: To please be addressed to the people of China and all her representatives, whom may have an interest in World Peace.
Now that the worlds governments have clearly demonstrated humanities ability and willingness to carry The Art of War through our Heavenly Gate into the peaceful workings of the universe.
Might the People of China and her representatives also be interested in becoming the First Super Power in History to call the global population into action, to literary create the first global step toward Peace on Earth.
If so there is a path and a golden opportunity for China to lead the world as a Dragon of Strength, Unity and Peaceful Change, into an action which could unite all of humanity into:
One Dream for Harmony
The HE(ART) of Peace
www.worldpeace-no-compromise.blogspot.com
Most Sincerely, Bruce Larson*Moore
Posted by: PeaceProfit | January 22, 2007 at 18:21
To each and every leader and individual who truly desires Peace on Earth.
13 Minutes to Change
i*am here today to humbly speak as a representative of Peace, with the hope that others who hear this message will also find the peace within their own heart to listen.
The entire world is now confronted with the opportunities to begin the creation of World*Peace in earnest, these opportunities are now abundant and looming very large on our collective horizon, as the worlds people begin to awaken to the truth of their shared connection and to the reality of its use and power.
There are many fine organizations and individuals working throughout the world on the myriad of issues which confront the stability of the planets social and environmental structure.
It is these social issues which are the true threat to humanity.
As individual leaders and groups continue to ignore the people in mass, and continue to degrade the social and environmental resource structure, the people and the planet herself will remove those leaders from power and take control of their own destiny.
The single largest global risk our world faces is the continued disconnect of the people from their representatives, despite technologies ability to connect the global community, it has failed to recognize its ability and responsibility to offer hope and a sense of direction to the very community it is connecting.
Revolution is the historical path of man, however there has always been a choice, to stand and struggle for absolute tradition, to violently demand and seize control, or to simply remove the (R) from Revolution and take the option which is reveled, Evolution of the gradual and intelligently designed change for the greater good.
Shifting the imbalance in expenditure of money, time, resource, and human potential both physically and mentally from the production of weapons and substances which harm the people and planet is of paramount immediacy.
Changing the use of these past ways is also of immediate importance to the survival of not only each individual citizen, but especially to the leaders which the people allow to lead them.
We are in the Age of 13 Minutes of change, in 13 minutes or less, the people are aware of the actions which will affect them, and in 13 minutes or less they will have made their decision on the course of action to be taken. And as our technology spreads and advances, so to will the speed and learning curve of this equation of change.
It is a leaders responsibility to at the very least keep in pace with the desire of the people and it is the peoples responsibility to insure their leaders are aware of those desires and that they are not overwhelmingly bias to or against any single group.
Never in human history have the leaders welcomed or solicited the global populations opinion or assistance in creating world peace, without the use or call for violent action.
Today is the day to change that reality, today is the day for the leaders to stand together and humbly ask the people to lead and help them in their efforts to end conflict in this world.
Many have and will call me a fool, but this is not about me*, those who point the accusing finger and cry fool, world peace can never be, that is the true threat to the peoples dream, that is the voice of FEAR screaming to be heard above the angels song of peace, fear is the enemy which continues to consume our children's potential.
Peace is The*Way Forward
The people have dreamed and manifested this for thousands of years and they see now that it is going to be their responsibility to create it, and their responsibility to hold leaders accountable for the integrity of their truth.
And so i*am here to humbly offer on behalf of Peace and all those who desire its creation to begin in earnest, to present the first collective baby step for the world to make . . .
So i offer the concept of the people and their leaders deciding together to commit their efforts to the creation of world peace and in doing so to create a global work of art, to display and mark this time as their collective change of direction forward toward world peace.
Project: World*Peace - No*Compromise
A global event is the single most likely solution to nudge this world into moving toward peace, there must be an effort by the leaders, a motion which demonstrates to the people that their leaders true desire is for peace, once this happens, it would become a point to move forward from, the key is that it must involve all the worlds people in a hands on creation of the notion and motion of peace, and be so benign that no one could oppose its creation.
An event that would span the globe, not rely on a single region or place for its creation and take several weeks or even months to completely accomplish, and could also be carried forward into the future, giving pause for each individual to consider their role in the creation of hostility.
The premise and platform for such an event is held every four years, its called the Summer Olympic Games, an in actual practice even your most barbaric predecessors, suspended all hostility to bring their champions home to participate, all that is required is to incorporate an event that would span the globe, reach into every heart, drawing out the peace within to be displayed as Peace on Earth.
The actual creation of such an event is really very simple, would cost next to nothing and as a side benefit could even create a global fund for world peace. To jump start the notion that peace is the way forward and that peace will*be, if only the people decide to work toward it. All that is slowing this from happening is the fact that the people are disconnected from their leaders, this event would strengthen and deepen that vital connection, and it is called: 12+13=Peace on Earth
A simple formula with which to create complex and far reaching result that could easily spring forth from the creation of this work representing the peoples HE(ART), giving each one a reason to trust that peace is their reality and then to pay it forward into being.
And so i*ask for 12 minutes of the worlds time to present this solution.
12+13=Peace on Earth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jphWzQFHyA
Please forgive my lengthy post, and thank you for taking the time to read through it. Perhaps 12 minutes of the worlds time is asking a great deal, but it seems to me that the cause, World*Peace might be worth their while.
Bruce Larson*Moore
We All are Saying - Build Peace Today
Posted by: PeaceProfit | January 20, 2007 at 02:19
You may have to change your name to the World Conversation Forum with the implementation of such diverse, highly needed and very timely access to your good*works for the public ;)
i am looking forward to seeing the results.
BL*M
Posted by: PeaceProfit | January 11, 2007 at 03:53