WEF: Shaping Governments

WEF’s Forum of Global Future Councils convenes more than 1000 of the most relevant and knowledgeable thought leaders from academia, government, international organizations, business and civil society, grouped in expertise-based thematic councils.

Klaus Schwab has boasted that half of the current Canadian government has ties to the WEF. See the list of Liberal Cabinet Members, MPs, Premiers and House Senators who have know WEF ties here.

At a local level there is the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy.

Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR): helps leaders anticipate, understand and shape the trajectory of technological change for human-centered, society-serving outcomes. Composed of 15 centres with a combined staff of more than 200 technology and policy experts, the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network (C4IR Network) is unique in its ability to embrace shared principles in the use of emerging technology and apply them locally in an agile and interoperable manner. Most centres are (co-)hosted and (co-)funded by national public and/or private entities. 

WEF: Shaping Minds

There are many initiatives created by WEF, that aim to shape the minds of young people. These include the WEF Young Scientists; WEF Young Global Leaders; WEF Global Shapers; and WEF New Champions. They also host an annual event called Davos. An additional spin-off organization One Young World founded by David Jones, a huge WEF supporter, calls itself “the most impactful network for young leaders”. View the Canadians who are involved in these groups by clicking on the links below:

• Canadian WEF Young Scientists
• Canadian WEF Young Global Leaders
• Canadian WEF Global Shapers
• Canadian WEF New Champions
• DAVOS attendees
• One Young World

Strategic Intelligence: Strategic insights and contextual intelligence from the World Economic Forum. Explore and monitor the issues and forces driving transformational change across economies, industries, and global issues

WEF: Shaping Industry

The World Economic Forum is funded by it’s business members who are classed as its partners. These partners include financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and retail giants.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship recognises that there are various vehicles for driving and championing social innovation: politics and government, markets, academia as well as social enterprises.

The Global Innovators Community is an invitation-only group of the world’s most promising start-ups and scale-ups that are at the forefront of technological and business model innovation.

UpLink is an open innovation platform that creates bridges for entrepreneurs to connect to the investors, corporate partners, experts and other organizations they need to scale.

Sustainable Development Goals are a UN/WEF initiative: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity. However, in reality they are basically a bad social credit scoring system for businesses.