scholarly journals Foreword

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Manuela Epure
Keyword(s):  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Investment Management ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Al Gore

Digital transformation, occurred in the past recent years, impacts many areas: from economics to society and reveal new opportunities, today when half of the world’s population is connected to the Internet but less than half trust that technology will make their lives better[1].“Over half of the global population is connected to the internet and has growing access to the sum total of human knowledge at their fingertips. The internet will increasingly bring about ever more transformational changes for human civilization. However, some of these changes will also bring unpredictable costs. We are just now beginning to better understand this ‘Faustian bargain’ ” says Al Gore, co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management.[1]  World Economic Forum – Our Shared Digital Future: Building an Inclusive, Trustworthy and Sustainable Digital Society, p.3

scholarly journals Transformation of education under conditions of digital society development: European experience and prospects for Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3 (132)) ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Oksana Strutynska
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Change ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
University Education ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Digital Society ◽  
Main Research ◽  
European Experience ◽  
World Economic

The paper deals with analysis, generalisation and systematisation of the European experience in the field of digital transformation of education. Nowadays, when a digital society is being built, digital transformation is becoming the basis for the world economic development. This leads to a rapid change in the professions being in demand in the employment market and, consequently, the professional requirements for the qualification framework, competences in particular. Thus, educational activities require updating the content and methods of teaching, finding innovative forms of learning, expanding the access to educational resources, implementing learning opportunities without restrictions on the bases of space and time, introducing new approaches to the organisation of educational services in general. The purpose of this study is to analyse and systematise the European experience in the field of the digital transformation of education, outlining some ways to use it for transforming the education in Ukraine. The main research methods used are as follows: a systematic analysis of regulatory, scientific, and methodological sources on the digital transformation of education in European countries, the study of the methodological tools to support teachers in the development of a digital society. For the digital transformation of education, it is necessary to take a number of important steps which include: the development of normative initiatives by the state to ensure the regulatory framework enabling the transformation of education; the modernisation of educational systems, the updating of the content of school and university education; training and retraining of teachers, taking into consideration the increasing proficiency level of their digital skills and competences. The paper presents in detail how these steps are implemented in the EU. Based on the analysed sources, we can come to these conclusions: in Europe, the conditions facilitating an increase in pedagogues’ proficiency in terms of digital competences have been created; the tools aimed at supporting their activities have been developed, which contributes to the digital transformation of education in general. Ukraine has also recognised the digital transformation as a priority policy for the development of the digital economy and the emergence of a digital society as a whole. To ensure a quality educational process, the modern education system of Ukraine needs changes. The digitalisation of all levels of education, and, in the future, their digital transformation appear to be important steps in this respect.

scholarly journals A PERCEPTIONAL STUDY ON THE TYPE OF WORK WOMEN UNDERTAKE IN TOP POSITION IN SELECTED SERVICE SECTOR WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PUNE

YMER Digital ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 551-561
Author(s):  
Dr. Harini Rajan ◽  
◽  
Dr. Anuja Johri ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Female Participation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Better Than

India has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates in the world and a majority of women work in the informal sector. The World Economic Forum said that at the it will take India 108 years to close the overall gender gap and 202 years to bring equality in the workplace. Even though there are more women graduates, the number of those joining the corporate sector and rising to the top remains abysmally low. (Thakur, 2020). In the recent study by Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI)India Ranked 23 globally, India’s female representation on boards has increased by 4.3 percentage points over the past five years to 15.2% in 2019.Though female participation rate increased but it is significantly below the global average of 20.6% (Pathak ,2019). India is near the bottom of the rankings for female representation at senior management levels, only marginally better than Japan and South Korea. Accepting the fact that female participation is top position is very less in India from the above figures this paper aims to examine the women in the top position as well as threw a light on area or type of work in which women are engaged in select service sector in Pune city

scholarly journals Pictorial Narration of Paulo Coelho

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S4) ◽  
pp. 246-250
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Writing ◽  
Vicarious Experience ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
The Past ◽  
Normal Individuals ◽  
The World ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
World Economic ◽  
New Perspective

Fiction emerges from a writer’s experience and imagination. It embraces the present, the past and the future and proffers values to hold on to as well as dreams to reach for. At its best it makes us look at life from a new perspective. A work of fiction is an imaginative narrative writing in prose. Believable characters, convincing dialogue and an interesting plot are among the essential ingredients of fiction. Because fiction writers share their thoughts with us through words, the writer’s style- the words that the writer chooses and how he puts them together – are critical to our understanding of the craft of a given work and of its effect on us. Like any other work of art, fiction offers us a vicarious experience. The ways in which we derive enjoyment from reading fiction are countless. Paulo Coelho is one of the most influential, widely read, and loved authors in the world. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious international awards, among them are the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum and France’s Legion d’ Honneur. He was inducted into the Brazilian Academy of letters in 2002. But instead than offering readers enticing stories of savagery, excitements or sex, Coelho composes of normal individuals who place themselves in unprecedented circumstances to develop their internal identities, utilizing simple, unadorned exposition.

scholarly journals FinTech Applications

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-87
Author(s):  
Chung-Chi Chen ◽  
Hen-Hsen Huang ◽  
Hsin-Hsi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Opinion Mining ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Investment Management ◽  
Financial Application ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Financial Technology

AbstractThe Financial Stability Board defines financial technology (FinTech) as “technology-enabled innovation in financial services.” At the 2015 World Economic Forum, experts proposed a taxonomy for financial services that can be classified into six major categories: payments, deposits and lending, market provisioning, capital raising, insurance, and investment management. Because financial opinion mining can be applied to many listed services, we survey various cases in this chapter and show that financial opinion mining is useful and crucial in many financial application scenarios.

scholarly journals Leadership 5.0: An Agile Mindset for a Digital Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Fernando Salvetti ◽  
Barbara Bertagni
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Reality ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Corporate Leaders ◽  
Effective Leaders ◽  
Start Up ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Business Game ◽  
Collaborative Platform

<p class="0abstract">This article is about a program aimed at fostering an agile mindset in young corporate leaders (under 40 years old) working in the energy sector, who are expected to be effective leaders in an ever more digitalized world; the program has been co-designed with ENI Corporate University (Milan and Rome, Italy) on behalf of the World Economic Forum (Davos and Geneva, Switzerland). Digital transformation is not only about technology. It is also mainly enabled by leadership that is grounded in 3 pillars: teamwork, start-up culture, and matrix management. Hot topics and key activities include: a business game for launching a new cryptocurrency; scenario analysis  and immersive simulation within a mixed reality environment (e-REAL); online keynotes by seasoned faculty from Harvard, MIT and Stanford with moderated Q&amp;A sessions to facilitate an interactive dialogue; a collaborative platform to enhance online learning and bridge between modules.</p>

scholarly journals Adapting to an ageing society: the need for cultural change

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Biggs
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Age Group ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Ageing Society ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Global Population

In 2050 the global population aged over 60 will reach two billion, making this age group three times larger than it was in 2000. This is a challenge that is facing both mature and emerging economies. The debate on the future shape of a long life is one that is critical to social development in the 21st century and is increasingly exercising the minds of policy makers throughout the world. The World Economic Forum global risks group has now identified population ageing as one of the five top issues facing the world community in terms of material provision (Beard et al., 2012).

South Africa will struggle to tame xenophobic violence

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Gauteng Province ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The City ◽  
Better Than

Significance Some twelve people have now been killed in related unrest over the past week, principally in Gauteng province, with over 400 individuals arrested. Foreign-born Africans and their small businesses are the principal targets of looting and assaults. The violence coincided with South Africa's hosting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town, where in July the army was deployed to control gang violence in townships bordering the city. Impacts The violence overshadowed news of better-than-expected growth in the second quarter of this year. The Gauteng violence and army deployment in Cape Town fosters an image of lawlessness contrary to Ramaphosa's 'open for business' drive. The unrest will further diminish South Africa's already depleted soft diplomatic power and ability to achieve key objectives.

Principles of Evolutionary Modernization of Transition Economies

2009 ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Rustamov
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Beneficial Use ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Advantages ◽  
World Economic

The article considers strategic issues of modernization of the transition economy. The analysis is based on the methodology of the World Economic Forum where special attention is paid to the sequence of the transformation stages. The main conclusion is that modernization should combine implementation of the governance mechanisms with the beneficial use of comparative advantages of the national culture. In fact, modernization of the transition economy should be evolutionary. It is precisely this course of development that is relevant for Azerbaijan which has successfully upgraded its economy in the recent years.

The World Economic Forum Principles on "Climate Governance on Corporate Boards": can soft law help to face climate change around the world?

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Sabrina Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Financial Factor ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Climate change is a financial factor that carries with it risks and opportunities for companies. To support boards of directors of companies belonging to all jurisdictions, the World Economic Forum issued in January 2019 eight Principlescontaining both theoretical and practical provisions on: climate accountability, competence, governance, management, disclosure and dialogue. The paper analyses each Principle to understand scope and managerial consequences for boards and to evaluate whether the legal distinctions, among the various jurisdictions, may undermine the application of the Principles or, by contrast, despite the differences the Principles may be a useful and effective guidance to drive boards' of directors' conduct around the world in handling climate change challenges. Five jurisdictions are taken into consideration for this comparative analysis: Europe (and UK), US, Australia, South Africa and Canada. The conclusion is that the WEF Principles, as soft law, is the best possible instrument to address boards of directors of worldwide companies, harmonise their conduct and effectively help facing such global emergency.

Wages for Soundwork

Resonance ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-210
Author(s):  
Joshua Hudelson
Keyword(s):  
Panic Attacks ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Financial Independence ◽  
Reproductive Labor ◽  
The Past ◽  
Labor Power ◽  
Sales Clerks

Over the past decade, ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) has emerged from whisper-quiet corners of the Internet to become a bullhorn of speculation on the human sensorium. Many consider its sonically induced “tingling” to be an entirely novel, and potentially revolutionary, form of human corporeality—one surprisingly effective in combating the maladies of a digitally networked life: insomnia, anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. Complicating these claims, this article argues that ASMR is also neoliberal repackaging of what Marx called the reproduction of labor power. Units of these restorative “tingles” are exchanged for micro-units of attention, which YouTube converts to actual currency based on per-1,000-view equations. True to the claims of Silvia Federici and Leopoldina Fortunati, this reproductive labor remains largely the domain of women. From sweet-voiced receptionists to fawning sales clerks (both of whom are regularly role-played by ASMRtists), sonic labor has long been a force in greasing the gears of capital. That it plays a role in production is a matter that ASMRtists are often at pains to obscure. The second half of this article performs a close reading of what might be considered the very first ASMR film: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Through this film, the exploitative dimensions of ASMR can be contrasted with its potential for creating protected spaces of financial independence and nonnormative corporeal practices.

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