Maybe, many people don’t know about the importance of World Economic Forum or known as DAVOS forum.
We know that DAVOS is considered the number 1 space for great global leaders to meet, from almost 38 years.
The forum is known in academic and economic world, the Mexican speaker Miguel Angel Cornejo said 15 years ago in one of his conferences:
“In Davos, Switzerland, year by year is developed a meeting of economist at global level, there is a very interesting discussion… Who meet in Davos? This year, we have 80 presidents from different nations, we have a Bill Gates, a Bill Clinton, and we have the most distinguished people at global level in business, politics, religion, etc”
But 2009 is a crucial year for Davos & world future.
Changes at Davos are moving faster, this year only one member of Obama administration cabinet or top advisers will be send to the forum, because Obama and his economic team will be very busy negotiating with the republican party the 825bn Bailout to save and boost American economy; this member will be Valerie Jarret (White house senior advisor and assistant to president for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison).
Many multinational companies CEOs will not be in the forum, because they were managing the companies hit by the crisis, as Bearn Sterns, Lehman Brothers and others.
Some parties, (Innovation Businessweek editor Nussbaum said are the key of the event), will be canceled, an example is the cancelation of one of the hottest parties held at Davos, the Goldman Sachs party.
Even that 41 head of state will be there, from Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel & Alvaro Uribe Velez and others; to presidents of multilateral organism as World bank, Interamerican development bank (with the Colombian economist Luis Alberto Moreno, who is going to celebrate the 50 years of the bank at Medellin, Colombia in march 31 of 2009), ONU and others, to Michael Porter, Bono and the always members of the forum: Bill Clinton & Bill Gates.
The main topic will be the global crisis and how to shape the new world, the past DAVOS meeting held in 2008, the discussion was centered in: Will be crisis or recession? , this year the topics covered will be: The new global structure, the environmental policies and the work of the business in shaping a new world.
As Duncan Niederauer, CEO, NYSE Euronext said about the forum: “It’s all going to be about globalization and where we go from here. We’ve had a globalized economy and markets over the past few years and that’s been brought into question given the financial crisis. There’s no going back. Given the financial crisis, I can’t think of a better time for us all to be together. Investor confidence more than anything has been lost throughout the crisis. We’ve got to work together as global leaders to determine how to restore it.”
Many people said that this is an event for the politics, business leaders, academics, economist, “The ELITE of the society”, but we must think and reflex how the decisions or proposals think these days will impact our daily life, that is why I invite you to be pendant of what is going to happen.
So, I will make an analysis about the relevant topics and see what is really happening with the decision makers of the world.
By other side, we should pay attention to DAVOS counterpart, a forum created in Latin America for treat the same topics but with the point of view of New-socialism; in this 9th edition will be 5 Latin-American presidents, including Lula da Silva, because the event will be held in BELME, a Little town in Brazil.
One of the organizers, Francisco Whitaker said about the event: “Davos will meet in a losing environment because the people who are meet there are guilty for nowadays financial situation and are asking what to do”, “We have the right in 2001, with the statement of another world is possible”…”the proposals for create a new world will come from Belem, not Davos”
This is the World Social Forum (FSM, for the meaning in Spanish) 2009.
Okey, thats all, and let the game begins. And see how the 2 approaches came for convert this world a better place.
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