George Soros: I made money from the Crisis
Jan 29, 2009
George Soros, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, says that he made a “pretty good return” from the market turmoil which he foresaw.
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Kofi Annan Tries Out YouTube
Jan 28, 2009
Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan tried out YouTube and I and briefly discussed it afterwards. When I asked whether he thought Social Media could help bring about world peace, he suggested I ask Barack Obama. Sadly, Obama is not here in Davos, so will have to wait on that question.
Nora Abousteit
Jan 28, 2009
Nora Abousteit co-founded BurdaStyle – an open source fashion design website – and expresses her artistic flair as a Graphic Designer for hikarufuruhashi.com. Now based in New York, Nora has lived in Egypt, doing Middle Eastern studies at the American University in Cairo and later working in Business Development and Corporate Marketing for a Kuwaiti
Jeff Jarvis
Jan 27, 2009
When not updating his buzzmachine blog or writing a media column for The Guardian newspaper, Jeff Jarvis is a professor and director of the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. In the course of these activities he has lately been thinking a lot about What Would Google Do – so much so
Michael Wolf
May 29, 2008
Michael Wolf former president and former COO of MTV Networks who before that headed McKinsey’s Global Media and Entertainment Practice. Wolf wrote The Entertainment Economy: How Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives (1999).
Lera Auerbach on the meaning of music
Apr 7, 2008
The morning after I heard her in concert, I had a chance to do a video quizzing composer, pianist and poet Lera Auerbach about the meaning of music. As a non-musical person, this quest for the meaning of music has become a bit of a crusade. I asked the same of the Chinese composer Chou
Van Jones: Corn ethanol swindles the poor by increasing the price of food
Dec 19, 2007
Van Jones, a green economy activist and founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, describes how US corn ethanol subsidies have created a dangerous perversion of the food prices. The great ethanol swindle: Ethanol is supposed to saves the environment by offering a renewable source of energy (corn and sugar), but the truth
YGL program at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Dec 9, 2007
In this video, Leslie Maasdorp and I speak about the program we just attended that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government created for the World Economic Forum‘s Young Global Leaders. Entitled Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century, the program has been described by the World Economic Forum and written about by Harvard, so
The Forum of Young Global Leaders, explained by David Aikman
Nov 1, 2007
In a video featuring many photographs of Young Global Leaders, David Aikman of the World Economic Forum explains in this video how, why, who and for what reason the group was formed. Operating under the umbrella of the World Economic Forum – the Geneva-based organization founded by Klaus Schwab that has a high profile annual
The Danger of Billionaire Philanthropists
Oct 9, 2007
A new breed of super-rich is now facing the decision of what to do with their money and Matthew Bishop, US business editor of The Economist has been looking at their philanthropic activities. They certainly have the potential to do a great deal of good, but they could easily pervert the current aid and development
Salman Iqbal on ARY and TV in Pakistan
Oct 2, 2007
Salman Iqbal, President and CEO of the ARY Digital Television Network, speaks about the vast changes sweeping through Pakistan’s television and media market. Some background: When launched in 1997, ARY was the first private television network and has been a key force in modernizing Pakistan’s television. The network operates out of Dubai Media City. The
Park to Support Singapore’s Social Entrepreneurs
Sep 30, 2007
Penny Low, one of the youngest women ever elected to the Singapore Parliament, speaks in this video about the Social Innovation Park in Singapore that she heads. The SIP, as it is called, aims to cultivate and nurture Singapore’s social entrepreneurs. While the world has never been so affluent and never had so much technology,
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