Annually,
since 2007, around 800 thought-leaders from around the world meet in the United
Arab Emirates in November for the World Economic Forum Summit on the Global
Agenda (the News International, November 19, 2014).
Incorporating
around 80 Global Agenda Councils on a wide range of topics, the WEF summit is
recognized as the world’s largest brainstorming event.
Each
year the WEF documents trends related to challenges and opportunities for the
upcoming year in their report, Outlook on the Global Agenda. This year the
report outlined 10 global trends facing the world over the next 12-18 months
(compiled and ranked using the Delphi method).
The
ten global trends included:
- deepening income inequality
- persisting jobless growth
- rising pollution
- increasing occurrences of extreme weather events
- increasing water stress
- emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
- weakening of representative democracy (and a disconnect between citizens and the officials that represent them)
- increasing backlash against globalisation (and the retreat to nationalism and regionalism)
- increasing lack of global leadership
- increasing transformational opportunities related to technology, science and innovation
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