
COVID-19 Vital Supply Chains: Food System Security
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As the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, the World Economic Forum, acting as partner to the World Health Organization, is mobilizing all stakeholders to protect lives and livelihoods.
Context
The dramatic spread of COVID-19 has disrupted lives, livelihoods, communities and businesses worldwide. All stakeholders, especially global business, must urgently come together to minimize its impact on public health and limit its potential for further disruption to lives and economies around the world.
But the sum of many individual actions will not add up to a sufficient response. Only coordinated action by business, combined with global, multistakeholder cooperation – at exceptional scale and speed – can potentially mitigate the risk and impact of this unprecedented crisis.
Our contribution
The spread of COVID-19 demands global cooperation among governments, international organizations and the business community. This multistakeholder cooperation is at the centre of the World Economic Forum’s mission as the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.
In this context, the new COVID Action Platform will focus on three priorities:
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WBCSD is convening this collective action platform for business to provide knowledge, tools, guidance and to address priority risks exacerbated by COVID-19 and ensure that learnings from ...
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Global media platforms, with access to over 3.8 billion people consuming their content daily, have unique opportunities to leverage their scale for positive societal impact. From the way ...
Goal: Support companies and governments in navigating global value chain disruption from COVID-19 and mega trends to successfully reconfigure global value chains delivering value to all s...
SummaryThe COVID-19 Workplace Commons: Keeping Workers Well initiative leverages the World Economic Forum’s platform, networks and global convening ability to collect, refine and share be...
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As COVID-19 forces us to consider a "new normal," the nature of work will change and employee wellbeing and mental health will become more critical. Isolation and loneliness threaten some...
As the International Organization for Public-private Cooperation, the World Economic, acting as partner to the World Health Organization, is mobilizing all stakeholders to protect lives a...
In collaboration with the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at University of Cambridge and the World Bank Group, the Forum has launched a survey to understand the impact of COVID-1...
Context: the world is facing a truly unprecedented situation. The global Coronavirus pandemic has reached and affected different aspects of life in Asia, Europe and the Americas. As tim...
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, an international task force of designers, engineers, medical professionals, and military experts have joined forces to launch CURA, an open-source project ai...
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Outbreaks are inevitable, however, in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it is possible – if we act collectively – to mitigate the impact of outbreaks by harnessing AI and epidemic intelli...
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Value in Media is an ongoing exploration of how production, distribution and consumption are changing in the media and entertainment industry.The starting assumption for the initiative is...
The global community agrees that mental health needs urgent addressing. And with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, technological solutions for managing mental health for people in isolation ...
The challenge Public health and social measures (PHSMs) that encourage physical distancing, such as school closures, business closures and stay-at-home orders, have contributed to lim...
The ChallengeCOVID-19 interrupted the status quo of mobility practices worldwide. To accommodate for the changing norms caused by the pandemic, mobility operators and service providers en...
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Culture is at the heart of our lives and society. The culture sector — an engine for content that shapes our imagination and the narratives of our lives — has been significantly affected...
SummaryManaging Epidemics with Consumer Wearables aims to establish an ethical approach for public health stakeholders to respond to pandemics using insights derived from consumer wearabl...
The global outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic presents huge challenge to all sectors, including both traditional and digital transportation. Meanwhile the huge amount of big data generated fro...
The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly changed the global business landscape. The immediate implications of the pandemic are manifesting by the day. However, its economic, environmental, societal ...
ContextAmidst the unprecedented disruption of COVID-19, there is urgent need for effective and scalable technology solutions to:Address immediate health needs (e.g. virtual medicine, e-bi...
The Global Shapers Community is training its members to build knowledge on COVID-19 through virtual sessions and online learning by the World Health Organization (WHO). The goal is to mob...
COVID-19 has highlighted critical gaps and weaknesses in global supply chains. Blockchain technology may offer opportunities to increase trust & transparency -- but it's not a silver ...
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Context As the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, the World Economic Forum has been charged by the World Health Organization to accelerate multi-stakeholder action...
Context:Improving the WASH sector’s resilience to absorb the shock of the primary and immediate socio-economic impacts caused by COVID-19 is critical now but also for the future. Currentl...
The ChallengePublic hesitancy towards vaccination is growing with WHO naming it one of the Top 10 Threats to Global Health in 2019.Resistance to vaccination poses a major threat, not only...
As economic powerhouses, cities drive growth and innovation, create jobs, improve livelihoods, and advance prosperity. In India, cities contribute around 70% of the country’s GDP and appr...
The World Economic Forum’s Global COVID-19 FinTech Market Rapid Assessment Study has gathered empirical data from 1,385 FinTech firms that are currently operating in 169 jurisdictions glo...
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The first half of 2020 has been marked with the food market and agri-dealer closures, trade blockages, labor shortages, manufacturing and processing plant closures, shortages of certain f...
The COVID Response Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs was launched in April 2020 by 60 leading social-sector organizations aiming to help mobilize support and raise awareness of the vital ...
The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to disrupt both manufacturing and global supply chains. Governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have responded quickly by restric...
Based on a survey of more than 68,000 youths aged 16-35 years old from six countries in the South-East Asia region (ASEAN), this report analyses the impact of social distancing on ASEAN y...
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged clinicians, public health authorities, companies and governments to quickly develop new capabilities for supporting recovery, maintaining health secur...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, putting immense pressure on healthcare systems and economies around the world, connectivity needs have changed abruptly. The response to COVI...
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While powerful megatrends like global trade tensions, climate change, new technology innovations, and the current COVID-19 crisis impact all parts of the globe, the reality of those impac...
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Since scientists demonstrated the means to create a full viral genome in 2002, DNA synthesis technologies have become increasingly available and frequently utilized by scientists and engi...
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